Contingency and Architectural Speculation

Kishwar Rizvi is a professor of Islamic art and architecture at Yale University. She is the author of The Transnational Mosque: Architecture and Historical Memory in the Contemporary Middle East (University of North Carolina Press, 2015) and the anthology Affect, Emotion, and Subjectivity in Early Modern Muslim Empires: New Studies in Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal Art and Culture (Brill, 2017). She writes on ethics, nationalism, and religion, as well as global early modernity in South Asia and the Middle East.