Islamic Art - The Barakat Trust

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S6E8: The Arts and England's Early Relations with the Islamic World, with Jerry Brotton

Tune in to Jerry Brotton as he tells the story of some of England’s earliest interactions with the Islamic world, specifically the Saadi Sultanate of ...

46m

•Aug 23, 2026

S6E7: Pointed Tips: Maghribi Script and the Arabic calligraphic tradition, with Umberto Bongianino

Join Umberto Bongianino as he walks us through one of the western Islamic world’s least appreciated artistic treasures: its calligraphy. For years, Ma...

42m

•Jul 29, 2026

S6E6: A Shrine Online: The Case of Emamzadeh Yahya at Varamin, with Keelan Overton

In the city of Varamin, some 50km southwest of Tehran, lies the Shrine and Mausoleum of Emamzadeh Yahya, a site of pilgrimage and veneration for Shi’i...

48m

•Jun 25, 2026

S6E5: The Shrines of Alexandria’s Lake Maryut region, with Ismael Awad

On the periphery of Alexandria in the surrounding countryside is the Lake Maryut region, a vast expanse of flat agricultural land that used to be Lake...

29m

•May 25, 2026

S6E4: Renewal in West Africa: The Great Mosque of Djenné with Michelle Apotsos

This month’s podcast takes us to the far south-west of the Islamic world, to the Inner Nigel Delta in Mali where stands the Great Mosque of Djenné in ...

40m

•Apr 29, 2026

S6E3: Through Uzbekistan: Histories of the Persianate World, with Fuchsia Hart

This month’s podcast episode takes us through Uzbekistan along the route that The Barakat Trust took on our trip to the country in November 2025. We b...

37m

•Apr 2, 2026