Re-View: S231 (Islamic rotation: 3) Sacred Spaces: The World of Dervishes, Fakirs and Sufis

This installation combines representations of Islamic holy men in Sufi traditions with calligraphic specimens of mystical texts. A companion exhibition, Sacred Spaces: Reflections on a Sufi Path, is on view at Harvard’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology October 22, 2009–March 30, 2010.

Organized by Kimberly Masteller, former assistant curator of Islamic and later Indian art, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum and current Jeanne McCray Beals Curator of South and Southeast Asian Art, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art; and Sunil Sharma, assistant professor of Persianate and comparative literature, Boston University.