Join us for a conversation and collection visit with artists specializing in Ottoman classical book arts. Aisha Imam, director of the Reed Society for the Sacred Arts, and Dr. Emin Lelić will lead a panel discussion with:

* Dr. Nihad Dukhan — a Dearborn resident who studied under the American calligrapher Mohamed Zakariya

* Khalid Casado — a Madrid-based calligrapher who has created a teaching folio for American students based on the meşk work of Mohamed Zakariya, based on historical manuscripts that are in the Islamic Manuscripts Collection at the University of Michigan Library

* Behnaz Karjoo — a New York-based Iranian-American tazhib (illumination) artist who has been classically trained under a distinguished master of Turkish illumination

Following the panel, join the artists and curator Evyn Kropf for a guided viewing of pieces from the Islamic Manuscripts Collection. This collection includes a significant number of works by well-known Ottoman masters of calligraphy and illumination to which contemporary calligraphers and illuminators trained in Ottoman traditional practices trace their artistic lineage.

Organized in partnership with Reed Society for the Sacred Arts and sponsored by the University of Michigan Library and Global Islamic Studies Center.