Dr. Sabiha Göloğlu

Sabiha Göloğlu is a recipient of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship (Global) for her research project at Universität Hamburg and the University of Michigan. She was formerly a postdoctoral university assistant at the University of Vienna’s Department of Art History and a CAHIM (Connecting Art Histories in the Museum) fellow of the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz and the Museum für Islamische Kunst in Berlin. She holds a PhD in Archaeology and History of Art from Koç University in Istanbul (2018). She received her MA in Architectural History (2011) and Bachelor of Architecture (2009) from the Middle East Technical University in Ankara.

She has published an article in Muqarnas about a canvas painting of Mecca and Medina and exchanges between photography, painting and print media; co-edited a special double issue of the Journal of Islamic Manuscripts on Sulayman al-Jazuli’s (d. 870/1465) Dalāʾil al-Khayrāt (Proofs of Good Deeds); wrote a book chapter about the talismanic use of hand-executed and printed images of Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem in prayer manuscripts; and prepared the catalogue entries for devotional books from the Collection of the Kubbealtı Foundation in Istanbul. Sabiha is now working on her monograph entitled The House of God and the Tomb of the Prophet: Images of Mecca and Medina in the Ottoman Empire (16th–19th Century).