God Is Beautiful and Loves Beauty:
Fostering Literacy about Islam and Muslim Cultures through the Arts
The Annemarie Schimmel Memorial Lecture
Welcome and Introduction: Sheila Canby, Patti Cadby Birch Curator in Charge, Department of Islamic Art, MMA
Speaker: Ali Asani, Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures, and Director, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Islamic Studies Program, Harvard University
Recorded January 23, 2015
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