Books By Jochen Sokoly - Author

Jochen Sokoly is Associate Professor of Art History of the Islamic World at Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts in Qatar. His research focuses on the material culture of the early Islamic caliphates, particularly in the context of court, administration and manufacture. He has published on early Islamic inscribed textiles, served as co-chair of the Hamad bin Khalifa Symposium, and curated exhibitions on contemporary Middle Eastern art. Sokoly has held fellowships at AKPIA Harvard, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, and has served as a member of the Council of the Royal Asiatic Society, London. He received his DPhil from the University of Oxford and holds degrees from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London.