Professor Kishwar Rizvi is an historian of Islamic art and architecture. She has written on representations of religious and imperial authority in Safavid Iran, as well as on issues of gender, nationalism, and religious identity in modern Iran and Pakistan. She is the author of The Safavid Dynastic Shrine: History, Religion and Architecture in Early Modern Iran, and the editor of Modernism and the Middle East: Architecture and Politics in the 20th Century.
We talk with Professor Rizvi about her new book project, The Transnational Mosque: Architecture and Historical Memory in the Contemporary Middle East.
