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Invention and Refinement: Artistic Innovation at the Library of Prince Baysunghur

Dr Shiva Mihan · 8 May 2025, 6 pm · SOAS, University of London

Research Seminar in Islamic Art (ReSIA). Convenor: Professor Anna Contadini.

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About the speaker

Dr Shiva Mihan is Curator of Islamic Collections (Persianate World) at the British Museum. She received her PhD from the University of Cambridge in 2018, where her dissertation Timurid Manuscript Production: The Scholarship and Aesthetics of Prince Baysunghur’s Royal Library (1420–1435) was awarded the Leigh Douglas Memorial Prize by the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies in 2019.

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