Introduction
Islam

Installation at BLOK art space Büyük Valide Han, Istanbul, Turkey, September to December 2017, photo courtesy of Sahand Hesamiyan

Installation at BLOK art space Büyük Valide Han, Istanbul, Turkey, September to December 2017, photo courtesy Sahand Hesamiyan
Time
Conceptual Framework

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (91.1.535a–h), Edward C. Moore Collection, Bequest of Edward C. Moore, 1891

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The European in India: From a Collection of Drawings, by Charles Doyley, Esq.; Engraved by J. H. Clark and C. Dubourg; with a Preface and Copious Descriptions, by Captain Thomas Williamson; Accompanied with a Brief History of Ancient and Modern India, from the Earliest Periods of Antiquity to the Termination of the Late Mahratta War, by F. W. Blagdon (London: Edward Orme, 1813), Plate I


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Chapter 1
A Walk in Time

North dome room, Friday Mosque, Isfahan.
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Wall decoration, Friday Mosque, Isfahan.
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Events and Narratives

Digitized copy (page 607) of Olearius’s Außführliche Beschreibung der Kundbaren Reyse Nach Muscow und Persien, University of Heidelberg (DOI: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21591)

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Öljeytü’s mihrab in west prayer hall of Isfahan’s Friday Mosque (2017).
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Life Stories

Folio 53 from an Album of Drawings and Paintings: Figures in porticoes surrounding fruit trees.
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Alpheus Hyatt Purchasing Fund, Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College, 1960.161.53

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Abbas Al-Musavi. Battle of Karbala, late 19th-early 20th century.
Brooklyn Museum, Gift of K. Thomas Elghanayan in honor of Nourollah Elghanayan, 2002.6
Politics
Chapter 2
Jerusalem in Java
Inadequacy of Timelines

New York: A. S. Barnes, 1846, scan courtesy of Amherst College Library

John B. Sparks, The Histomap: Four Thousand Years of World History. Relative Power of Contemporary States, Nations and Empires. Chicago: Rand McNally and Company, 1931. Scan courtesy of the David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

Stanley Lane-Poole, The Mohammedan Dynasties: Chronological and Genealogical Tables with Historical Introductions (Westminster: A Constable and Co., 1894)

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(Rudimentum noviciorum sive Chronicarum et historiarum epitome (Lübeck: Lucas Brandis, 1475), 672. Digitale Sammlungen der Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek.

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of John Wise (1940.469)

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Spacetimes

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Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris

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Genealogies

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https://www.alhussein.jo/en/family-tree

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Events Relived

Urdu poem “The Night of ‘Ashur” sung by the group Hashim Sisters (2017).

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Enduring Forms

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Photo © Shahzad Bashir (2015)

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Photo © Shahzad Bashir (2015)

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An aerial view of the sacred district in Jerusalem (2013).
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Chapter 3
A Roaming Orientalist

The Strand Magazine 7 (January to June 1894), 623

G. W. Leitner, The Languages and Races of Dardistan. Lahore: Government Book Depot, 1877. p. 31 [digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/leitner1877]

G. W. Leitner, The Languages and Races of Dardistan. Lahore: Government Book Depot, 1877, p. 12 [digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/leitner1877]

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Photo © Zakriya Bashir-Hill (2018)

Photo © Zakriya Bashir-Hill (2018)

Illustrated London News 26 September, 1874

Panoramic view of the city of Lahore showing the Lahore Fort on the right. Punjab, ca.1860.
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The Modern (Historical) Condition

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Tughra epigraphy from the region of Bengal where Angrezabadi resided.
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Wellcome MS Persian 474, Wellcome Collection, London

Sayyid Ilahi Bakhsh Angrezabadi, Khurshid-i Jahan-numa. MS Buhar 102, National Library of India, Kolkata, pp. 94-95

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Tughra epigraphy from the region of Bengal where Angrezabadi resided.
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Relative size of chapters in Khurshid-i Jahan-numa.
The Mongol Catalysis

Syrian television broadcast a 30-part serial “Hulaku” in 2002. Juvayni is depicted as the narrator writing down the events. In episode 23, the Abbasid caliph is executed (9:00) and Juvayni writes about the devastation of Baghdad (13:30).

Ata-Malik Juvayni, Tarikh-i Jahan-gushay, MS Supplément Persan 205, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, fol. 2a

Diez Album, Staatsbibliothek, Berlin, fol. 71, S. 18, no. 2

Rashid ad-Din Tabib, Jami‘ at-tavarikh, MS Supplément Persan 1113, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, fol. 239a

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The David Collection, Copenhagen, C 83, Photo Pernille Klemp

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A Mongol king conversing with a Muslim scholar.
Rashid ad-Din, Jami‘ at-tavarikh, MS Supplément Persan 1113, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, fol. 202a

Rashid ad-Din Tabib, Jami' at-tavarikh, MS 727, Khalili Collection fol. 34a (Tabriz, Iran, 1314-15)

Rashid ad-Din Tabib, Jami' at-tavarikh, MS 727, Khalili Collection fol. 28b (Tabriz, Iran, 1314-15)

Rashid ad-Din Tabib, Jami' at-tavarikh, MS 727, Khalili Collection fol. 11a (Tabriz, Iran, 1314-15

Landscape surrounding Öljeytü's tomb in Sultalniyya, Iran.
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Varieties of “Islamic” Times

Pakistani singer Abida Parveen performing “Man Kuntu Mawla” in front of Prince Karim Aga Khan, Imam of the Nizari Isma’ili Shi’i community. She begins by explaining the historical context in the life of the Prophet in which the text was first uttered.

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Carved stucco panel from the city of Samarra, Iraq (9th century). On display at the Iraq Museum in Baghdad.
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Orientations to the Past
Chapter 4
A Woman’s Voice

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al-Kashkul, 22 May, 1931, Rare Books Library and Archives, American University in Cairo, Photo Gülşah Torunoğlu

The David Collection, Copenhagen, 205, Photo Pernille Klemp

A woman walks past the ornate outer walls and doorway of a mosque in Fez, Morocco.
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A large mural of a woman with short hair and a pink flower covers a wall in distinctive street art in central Casablanca, Morocco.
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An Edifice of Time

Bernhard Moritz (Berlin: Dietrich Riemer, 1916), Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC, USA

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Saat Kaman, Seven Arches at Pavagadh Hill in Gujarat State of India
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A dry stepwell in Champaner-Pavagadh, the city built by Mahmud Begada in Gujarat, India.
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Carving details on the outer wall of Nagina Masjid, Champaner-Pavagadh, Gujarat, India.
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Documenting the Living Dead

Haydar Khwarazmi, Makhzan al-asrar (Tabriz, Iran, 1478) Spencer Collection, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations, Persian MS No. 41, fol. 27b

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The Alcázar of Seville, Spain, used as the royal palace by Muslims and Christians in succession.
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Stories from the Americas

D. P. Kidder and J. C. Fletcher, Brazil and the Brazilians Portrayed in Historical and Descriptive Sketches (Philadelphia: Childs and Peterson, 1857): 131

Randolph Linsly Simpson African-American collection, Yale University Library, JWJ MSS 54

North Carolina Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Call No. VCpB M837k, front

North Carolina Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Call No. VCpB M837k, back

Memorial to the liberation of enslaved Africans. Goree Island, Senegal.
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The autobiography of Omar Ibn Said.
"The life of Omar ben Saeed, called Morro, a Fullah Slave in Fayetteville, N.C. Owned by Governor Owen", Library of Congress, Washington DC, Control Number 2018371864, p. 16
Self, Family, Nation

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Minangkabau huizen (roemah gadang) te Kampong Andalas op Sumatra's Westkust
Leiden University Library, KITLV 169764

Diah Yulianti, Spirits's Dialog About This Country (1999)
Oil and acrylic on bark, 110 x 260 cm, OHD Museum Collection (Magelang, Indonesia)
Chapter 5
The Skyline of Istanbul

Mustafa Orakçı, Mimar Sinan’la Bir Gün (Istanbul: Timaş, 2014)



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Panoramic view of Istanbul taken from Galata Tower, 2018.
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Skyline of Istanbul from an atlas published in 1788.
Johann Baptist Homann, Constantinopel (Nuremberg: Homann, 1788), David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries, 9753.084

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Topkapı Palace Museum H.1344, fol. 190b. © T. C. Cumhurbaşkanlığı Milli Saraylar İdaresi Başkanlığı
Frescoes in the Desert


Belvedere Museum, Vienna, Austria, 3640

Belvedere Museum, Vienna, Austria, 508A

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Mielich’s painting of a Qusayr ‘Amra fresco.
Alois Musil, et. al. Kusejr ʻAmra: mit Einer Karte von Arabia Petraea (Vienna: K. K. Hof- Und Staatsdruckerei, 1907), Vol. 2 Tafel XXVL

Photograph of restored fresco at Qusayr ‘Amra.
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Beautiful Violence

John Work Garrett Library, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

John Work Garrett Library, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

John Work Garrett Library, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

John Work Garrett Library, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

John Work Garrett Library, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

John Work Garrett Library, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Tamerlane’s accession in Balkh on 12 Ramadan, 771/ April 9, 1370. Garrett Zafarnama, ff. 82b–83a.
John Work Garrett Library, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Construction of the Great Mosque of Samarqand, 801/1399. Garrett Zafarnama, ff. 359b–360a.
John Work Garrett Library, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
The Gift of Presence

Paul Marty, Études sur l’Islam au Sénégal (Paris: E. Leroux, 1917), 1:221

Fowler Museum at UCLA, Photography by Don Cole, X99.56.5

Fowler Museum at UCLA, Photography by Don Cole, X99.13.13

Fowler Museum at UCLA, Photography by Don Cole, TR99.37.22

Fowler Museum at UCLA, Photography by Don Cole, TR2002.11.3

Mural on a wall in Dakar, Senegal.
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The Missing Image

Law kana baynana, season 2, episode 10 (2008).

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The photograph was take on a visit to Prophet Hud, peace be upon him, at Wadi Hadramawt, South Yemen. © Peter Sanders Photography Limited

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Amir Hamzah, uncle of the Prophet Muhammad, spreader of Islam, and hero of the Serat Menak, by dalang Otong Rasta (Indonesian, 1933–). Wood, cloth, and mixed media.
Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, From The Mimi and John Herbert Collection, F2000.86.62. Photograph © Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
The Grave of Time

Photo courtesy of Lara Baladi

Photo courtesy of Lara Baladi

Photo courtesy of Lara Baladi

Photo courtesy of Lara Baladi

Photo courtesy of Lara Baladi

Photo courtesy of Lara Baladi

Photo courtesy of Lara Baladi

Photograph of a used coffee cup.
Photo courtesy of Lara Baladi

Photo courtesy of Lara Baladi

Photo courtesy of Lara Baladi
Chapter 6
An Ambiguous Adventure

Interview with Cheikh Hamidou Kane in 2018. Footage from 1961 shows him saying, among other things, “I cannot imagine a future that would simply make black Europeans out of us.”

Edmond Fortier Studio, Dakar, Senegal, CF-1030


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Postcard showing a French colonial gathering in Senegal circa 1910.
Edmond Fortier Studio, Dakar, Senegal, CGF-2039
The Arab Renaissance

Iranian feature film on Hujr b. ‘Adi (2003). His death via arrow is depicted at the very end (1:40:00).

Lehnert & Landrock, Cairo, 1116






Jurji Zaidan, Tarikh-i Salma, tr. ‘Abd al-Husayn b. Mu'ayyad ad-Dawla Tahmasp Mirza (Tehran: Shirakat-i Matbu‘at-i Dar al-Khilafa, 1903), p. 1

Jurji Zaidan, Tarikh-i Salma, tr. ‘Abd al-Husayn b. Mu'ayyad ad-Dawla Tahmasp Mirza (Tehran: Shirakat-i Matbu‘at-i Dar al-Khilafa, 1903), p. 73

Jurji Zaidan, Tarikh-i Salma, tr. ‘Abd al-Husayn b. Mu'ayyad ad-Dawla Tahmasp Mirza (Tehran: Shirakat-i Matbu‘at-i Dar al-Khilafa, 1903), p. 174

Jurji Zaidan, Tarikh-i Salma, tr. ‘Abd al-Husayn b. Mu'ayyad ad-Dawla Tahmasp Mirza (Tehran: Shirakat-i Matbu‘at-i Dar al-Khilafa, 1903), p. 53



A New Past Nation

Song addressing the new nation’s flag in the Pakistani film Kartar Singh (1959).

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Sir Walter Scott, The Talisman (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1832)



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Photo © Eric Sung

Photo © Nancy Hill (2015)

Photo © Nancy Hill (2015)

Photo © Nancy Hill (2015)


The abandoned Bhagat Sadhna Kasai mosque in Sirhind, India.
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Faisal Mosque, Islamabad, Pakistan.
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The Premodern Epic

Documentary on a woman learning to be a reciter of the Persian epic Shahnama of Ferdowsi in Iran (2009).

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (23.264.1), Rogers Fund, 1923

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Bibliothèque nationale de France, Espagnol 30, Sheet 6

Fictional Truth

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Lisbon, Portugal - February 1, 2017: Castelo de Sao Jorge aka Saint George Castle. Barbican structure on the keep entrance and the Ulysses Tower.
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Streets in the Alfama district of Lisbon at dawn.
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Chapter 7
The Grave of a Living King

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Photo © Shahzad Bashir (2020)

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Photo © Shahzad Bashir (2020)

Carved grave marker in the courtyard at Shah-i Zinda.
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Inside of dome in the main sanctuary at Shah-i Zinda.
Photo © Shahzad Bashir (2020)
Anticipating Past Futures

Song “Time Waits for No One,” featuring Junaid Jamshed (d. 2016), a Pakistani pop star who joined the Tablighi Jamaat and died in an air crash while returning from a Tablighi tour.

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A Resurrection

Interview with Aga Khan IV discussing the relationship between religious belief and acting in the world.

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Alamut castle
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A Lost-Found Nation

Photograph by Gordon Parks, Courtesy of and copyright The Gordon Parks Foundation

Muhammad Speaks 9, no. 30 (1970), Supplement, JSTOR (CC BY-NC 4.0)

Elijah Muhammad Remembered, from the One Million Strong Series, 1995 © Roderick Terry

Muhammad Speaks 9, no. 30 (1970), JSTOR (CC BY-NC 4.0), p. 1

Muhammad Speaks 9, no. 30 (1970), JSTOR (CC BY-NC 4.0), 15

Muhammad Speaks 9, no. 30 (1970), JSTOR (CC BY-NC 4.0), p. 32
Reading the Stars
Refugee Horizons

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People in Teknaf, Bangladesh, awaiting arrival of refugees across the Naf River that forms the boundary with Myanmar.
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Rohingya girls in a school learning the Quran in Kutupalong refugee camp in Ukhia district, Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh (April 16, 2018).
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