{"id":8370,"date":"2018-08-13T12:46:37","date_gmt":"2018-08-13T16:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/haa\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=8370"},"modified":"2025-06-20T16:19:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T20:19:15","slug":"ikbal-zeynep-dursunoglu","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/haa\/profile\/ikbal-zeynep-dursunoglu\/","title":{"rendered":"\u0130kbal Zeynep Dursuno\u011flu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u0130kbal\u2019s dissertation investigates Safavid and Mughal discourses around the legitimacy of figural images roughly between 1540-1640, which she tackles in their widest resonances\u2014from the question of Islamic iconoclasm, to orchestrations of the emperor\u2019s body as an object of devotion, to the poetic metaphor of the idol for the beloved, and its pictorial representations. \u0130kbal\u2019s scrutiny of such diverse materials reveals that Safavid and Mughal artists and intellectuals formulated the painter\u2019s agency and legitimacy through a subversive appropriation of Islamic juridical stances on the figural image, and within a competitive framework over a politicized global artistic landscape. Her master&#8217;s thesis, completed in 2016 at Bo\u011fazi\u00e7i University, focused on early modern Persianate manuscripts of Nizami Khamsas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Research Interests:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Safavid and Mughal painting<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">History of arts of the book in early modern Muslim lands<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Theories of art<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Dissertation <\/strong>[2025]:<br \/>\n\u201cImitators of God: The Moral Economy of Safavid and Mughal Painting, c. 1540-1640&#8243;<\/p>\n<p><span face=\"arial,helvetica,sans-serif\"><strong>2022-2023:<br \/>\n<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/haa\/community\/diversity-equity-and-inclusion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">History of Art &amp; Architecture Diversity &amp; Inclusion Committee<\/a><br \/>\nTravel Grant Committee Member, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/haa\/community\/student-organizations\/graduate-student-history-of-art-architecture-association\/\">Graduate Student History of Art &amp; Architecture Association<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span face=\"arial,helvetica,sans-serif\"><strong>2021-2022:<br \/>\n<\/strong>Student-Faculty Liaison, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/haa\/community\/student-organizations\/graduate-student-history-of-art-architecture-association\/\">Graduate Student History of Art &amp; Architecture Association<\/a><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span face=\"arial,helvetica,sans-serif\"><strong>2020-2021:<br \/>\n<\/strong>Senior Editor, <em>SEQUITUR<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span face=\"arial,helvetica,sans-serif\"><strong>2019-2020:<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><span face=\"arial,helvetica,sans-serif\">Junior Editor,<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span face=\"arial,helvetica,sans-serif\"><em>SEQUITUR<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2318,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/haa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/8370"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/haa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/haa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/haa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2318"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/haa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/8370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17510,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/haa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/8370\/revisions\/17510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/haa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}