Lecture and Book Release with Riyaz Latif and Pushkar Sohoni
Followed by Panel Discussion with Prof.Neelkanth Chhaya and Riyaz Tayyibji
Date: 25 March 2023, Saturday
Time: 6.30pm onwards

Join us for a Talk & Book Release with Riyaz Latif and Pushkar Sohoni followed by panel discussion with Prof. Neelkanth Chhaya and Riyaz Tayyibji this Saturday, 25 March 2023 at 6.30 pm.

About the book:
Sultanate Ahmadabad and its monuments serves as a succinct guide to a group of monuments in Ahmadabad constructed under the patronage of the Muzaffarid sultanate. These monuments endured for almost two centuries until its annexation into the Mughal Empire under Akbar in 1573. Richly Illustrated, it brings to light an architectural corpus which deserves a central space as well as a composite scholarly assessment within the discourse surrounding the cultural expressions of Islamic architecture in the Indian subcontinent.

About Riyaz Latif:
Riyaz Latif is an architectural historian and teaches at FLAME University in Pune. He received his PhD in History of Art in 2011 from the University of Minnesota tor his work on the Marinids of North Africa. He has written on various aspects of art, cultural, and literary phenomena as they pertain to the Islamic and Indo-Persianate world. He is also a poet, with three collections of Urdu poetry to his credit; in addition, he has translated several works between English and Urdu.

About Pushkar Sohoni:
Pushkar Sohoni is an architectural historian and works at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Pune. He received his PhD in History of Art in 2010 from the University of Pennsylvania for his work on the Nizam Shahs of Ahmadnagar. His books include The Architecture of a Deccan Sultanate: Courtly Practice and Royal Authority in Late Medieval India (2018) and Jewish Heritage or the Deccan: Mumbai, the Northern Konkan, Pune (with Kenneth X. Robbins, 2017).