{"podcast":{"title":"New Books in Islamic Studies","slug":"new-books-in-islamic-studies-1029962","podcast_index_feed_id":1029962,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/LIT7782346334","website_url":"https://newbooksnetwork.com/category/religion-faith/islamic-studies/","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/d9838266-ef0d-11e8-86a0-17d544c0507b/image/97b898d95d37b7a6e4eb02f361a21c5e.png?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"New Books Network","episode_count":913,"summary":"This podcast is a channel on the New Books Network. The New Books Network is an academic audio library dedicated to public education. In each episode you will hear scholars discuss their recently published research with another expert in their field. Discover our 150+ channels and browse our 28,000+ episodes on our website: ⁠newbooksnetwork.com⁠ Subscribe to our free weekly Substack newsletter to get informative, engaging content straight to your inbox: ⁠https://newbooksnetwork.substack.com/⁠ Follow us on Instagram and Bluesky to learn about more our latest interviews: @newbooksnetwork Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/islamic-studies","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-islamic-studies-1029962"},"episode":{"title":"Margaret S. Graves, \"Invisible Hands: Fabrication, Forgery, and the Art of Islamic Ceramics\" (Princeton UP, 2026)","slug":"margaret-s-graves-invisible-hands-fabrication-forgery-and-the-art-of-islamic-ceramics-princeton-up-2026","published_at":"2026-02-27T09:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-islamic-studies-1029962/margaret-s-graves-invisible-hands-fabrication-forgery-and-the-art-of-islamic-ceramics-princeton-up-2026","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-islamic-studies-1029962","url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK6235094262.mp3?updated=1772082670","audio_url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK6235094262.mp3?updated=1772082670","summary":"In the heyday of Islamic art collecting around the turn of the twentieth century, thousands of premodern ceramic objects circulated on the international antiquities market. Invisible Hands: Fabrication, Forgery, and the Art of Islamic Ceramics (Princeton University Press, 2026) tells the story of how traditional craft skills of the Islamic world, often thought to have died out with the advent of industrialization, were redirected toward a thriving new market in the colonial era: the fabrication and fictionalizing of antiquities, especially ceramics.In this stunning work of art history, Dr. Margaret Graves shakes the foundations of the discipline, challenging us to reconsider what is and is not art. She traces how sophisticated fabrications—as modern as they were believed to be medieval—moved within an international network of diggers, dealers, and collectors who took advantage of a largely unregulated marketplace to exchange and amass objects that were fabulous in every sense of the word. She looks at canonical artworks as well as many previously unpublished and rarely seen objects, shedding light on the astonishingly varied ways Islamic ceramics were altered and remade by highly skilled craftspeople to meet the demands of Western collectors. Shifting away from the moralizing stance of past studies on reconstructed Islamic ceramics, Dr. Graves shows how fabrication and forgery became a major site of participation in modern global capitalism and establishes an entirely new paradigm in the history of art.Drawing on a substantive new body of provenance research, archaeology, economic history, and laboratory analysis, Invisible Hands centers previously marginalized objects, reframing the practices of fabrication and forgery as crucial forms of invention and artistic skill…","meta_description":"In the heyday of Islamic art collecting around the turn of the twentieth century, thousands of premodern ceramic objects circulated on the international a…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3460,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/new-books-in-islamic-studies-1029962/episodes/margaret-s-graves-invisible-hands-fabrication-forgery-and-the-art-of-islamic-ceramics-princeton-up-2026/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-islamic-studies-1029962/margaret-s-graves-invisible-hands-fabrication-forgery-and-the-art-of-islamic-ceramics-princeton-up-2026.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}