#  Aga Khan Lecture Series: Christiane Gruber "Harvard’s Safavid Multi-Text Compendium: The Codex as a Communal Gathering of Riddles" 

 



    ![Tree of Life](/sites/g/files/omnuum4426/files/styles/hwp_5_4__480x385/public/2026-01/Gruber%20Harvard%20Jung%20Key%20Visual.jpg?h=de69af0b&itok=c0dq_bqV) 

 



 

####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **February 19, 2026** 

 06:00PM - 07:30PM EST 

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 **HAA Lower Lecture Hall**  

 [485 Broadway  
Cambridge, MA 02138  
United States



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**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.

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