Aga Khan Lecture Series: Christiane Gruber "Harvard’s Safavid Multi-Text Compendium: The Codex as a Communal Gathering of Riddles"
Date and Time
February 19, 2026
06:00PM - 07:30PM EST
Speaker: Christiane Gruber (Mehmet Ağa-Oğlu Collegiate Professor of Islamic Art History, University of Michigan)
Image: “Tree of Chivalry” (shajarat al-futuwwa) checkerboard and diagram showing the ground plan of the Dome of the Rock, Safavid multi-text compendium, possibly Tabriz, 1098/1687. Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Philip Hofer, 1984.463.109.
