Professor Sunil Sharma co-curating “Sacred Spaces” exhibition at Harvard’s Sackler Museum

Professor Sunil Sharma is co-curating an exhibition at Harvard University’s Sackler Museum titled Sacred Spaces: The World of Dervishes, Fakirs, and Sufis. This exhibition combines representations of Islamic holy men in Sufi traditions with calligraphic specimens of mystical texts. The exhibition runs from August 6, 2009 to January 3, 2010.

Professor Sharma has organized the exhibit with Kimberly Masteller of Harvard Univerisity.

A companion exhibition, Sacred Spaces: Reflections of a Sufi Path, is on view at Harvard’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology from October 22, 2009 to April 30, 2010.