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- Scholar
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- Americas & Oceania
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Summary
Maryam D. Ekhtiar is Associate Curator in the Department of Islamic Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the title under which she signs the acknowledgments of her book How to Read Islamic Calligraphy, published by the Museum in 2018. 1 2
Her work on the book
Her acknowledgments describe the book as the fruit of several years of research and writing within the Museum; Professor Priscilla P. Soucek of the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, read the manuscript, and the epigraphist Abdullah Ghouchani helped her read some Persian and Arabic inscriptions. 1 She chose to gather her sources in lists by chapter rather than in footnotes, with a full bibliography and a glossary of Arabic, Persian and Turkish terms. 3
Connections
- Lived in
- New York City
People and things also explored
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar· Rashid Khalidi· Salman Rushdie· New York City· Museum of Islamic Art, Doha· Abbasid tin-glazed ware· Ahmadnagar painting· Proportional script and the six pens (al-aqlam al-sitta)
Sources
- Maryam D. Ekhtiar, How to Read Islamic Calligraphy (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2018) , p. 2
- Maryam D. Ekhtiar, How to Read Islamic Calligraphy (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2018) , p. 146
- Maryam D. Ekhtiar, How to Read Islamic Calligraphy (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2018) , p. 4
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islam.museum contributors. “Maryam D. Ekhtiar”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/maryam-ekhtiar/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-09.
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