The Aga Khan Museum in Toronto (Canada) contains some of the most celebrated Islamic Art in the world. Click here for related essays, news, links and other resources regarding the museum, exhibitions and Islamic art in general.

Since 1970 Professor Khalili has assembled, under the auspices of the Khalili Family Trust, eight of the world’s finest and most comprehensive art collections: The Arts of the Islamic World (700-2000), Hajj and the arts of pilgrimage (700-2000), Aramaic and Bactrian documents (400 BC - AD 700), Japanese Art of the Meiji Period (1868-1912), Japanese Kimonos (1700-2000), Swedish Textiles (1700-1900), Spanish Damascened Metalwork (1850-1900) and Enamels of the World (1700-2000). Together, the eight collections comprise some 25,000 works. Each of the eight collections is on its own merit the largest and most comprehensive in the world. The Khalili Collections will be fully represented in a series of 88 volumes, including exhibitions catalogues of which 69 have already been published.

Talks on Visual Culture in the Islamic World
Founded at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic in May 2020, the Virtual Islamic Art History Seminar Series (VIAHSS) has brought together a diverse community of researchers from around the world through its virtual seminars and workshops, thereby filling a new niche in academic discourse.

While travel has resumed and in-person events have begun again, the need for a forum which brings together international and intergenerational audiences in an inclusive and supportive fashion still continues to exist. We believe that this is the time to encourage researchers to connect in different ways and to include and pay attention to voices that have been heard less.

We hope to expand our understanding of Islamic art history and discuss those geographical areas and time periods that have previously been defined as marginal.