Sana Mirza

Sana Mirza is a doctoral candidate at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University specializing in Islamic Art. She holds a B.A. in history and art history with a minor in Islamic Studies from George Mason University and an M.A. from the IFA. Sana’s dissertation focuses on Qur’an manuscripts produced between the 17th and 19th centuries in the city of Harar, in present-day Ethiopia. These manuscripts provide an amazing opportunity to examine the position of the city within circuits of artistic exchange linking Harar to centers of manuscript production elsewhere in sub-Saharan Africa, as well as across the Red Sea and Indian Ocean. Since 2015, Sana has been a Museum Research Fellow at the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, the Smithsonian’s Asian art museums in Washington, D.C. She contributed to their recent exhibition,The Art of the Qur’an: Treasures of the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts. 

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