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DESCRIPTION:&nbsp\;The tombs of Sufi saints have long been nodes of contact
  in South Asian cities\, gathering devotees from across social classes and
  confessional groups. These monuments are constantly transforming and expa
 nding\, and become significant public spaces\, places of sociability and o
 f communal gathering. This talk will&nbsp\; explore how funerary sites and
  rituals have historically impacted and shaped urban development in the In
 dian subcontinent.Fatima Quraishi is Assistant Professor in the Department
  of Art History at the University of California\, Riverside. Her current b
 ook project Necropolis as Palimpsest: The Makli Cemetery in Sindh\, 1380-1
 660 is a longue-duree analysis of a vast funerary site in the south of Pak
 istan. She completed her doctorate from the Institute of Fine Arts\, NYU a
 nd has held teaching positions at the Indus Valley School of Art and Archi
 tecture and at the Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Te
 chnology\, both in Karachi\, Pakistan. She was also the lead curator of th
 e exhibition\, “Paradise on Earth: Manuscripts\, Miniatures\, and Mendican
 ts from Kashmir\,” at the Mohatta Palace Museum in Karachi in 2017. She is
  currently a fellow at the Society for the Humanities at Cornell Universit
 y.
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SUMMARY:Death in the City: Funerary Architecture and Urbanism in Muslim Sou
 th Asia
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p>&nbsp\;</p><p>The tombs of Sufi saints have
  long been nodes of contact in South Asian cities\, gathering devotees fro
 m across social classes and confessional groups. These monuments are const
 antly transforming and expanding\, and become significant public spaces\, 
 places of sociability and of communal gathering. This talk will&nbsp\; exp
 lore how funerary sites and rituals have historically impacted and shaped 
 urban development in the Indian subcontinent.</p><p>Fatima Quraishi is Ass
 istant Professor in the Department of Art History at the University of Cal
 ifornia\, Riverside. Her current book project<em> Necropolis as Palimpsest
 : The Makli Cemetery in Sindh</em>\,<em> 1380-1660</em> is a longue-duree 
 analysis of a vast funerary site in the south of Pakistan. She completed h
 er doctorate from the Institute of Fine Arts\, NYU and has held teaching p
 ositions at the Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture and at the Sha
 heed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology\, both in Kar
 achi\, Pakistan. She was also the lead curator of the exhibition\, “Paradi
 se on Earth: Manuscripts\, Miniatures\, and Mendicants from Kashmir\,” at 
 the Mohatta Palace Museum in Karachi in 2017. She is currently a fellow at
  the Society for the Humanities at Cornell University.</p>
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