WED 12 AUG: The Sensitive Lover: Spirituality in the URDU poetry of Mirza Mazhar Jan e Janan - Murad Khan Mumtaz

Hast o Neest
Institute of Traditional Studies & Arts LAHORE
invites you to a talk

The Sensitive Lover
Spirituality in the Urdu Poetry of Naqshbandi Shaykh 
Mirza Mazhar Jan e Janan مرزا مظہر جانِ جاناں
(d. 1781, Delhi)

Murad Khan Mumtaz

Wednesday, 12 August 2015

at 5:00 pm

Murad Khan Mumtaz is a Pakistani artist trained in the traditional art of Indian miniature painting. As small acts of remembrance, his paintings meditate on traces of traditional culture that are disappearing in the materialistic landscape of contemporary life.

Born in Lahore, Mumtaz was educated at Pakistan’s National College of Arts and Columbia University in New York City, which he attended on a Fulbright fellowship. He is a co-founder of the Hast-o-Neest Center for Traditional Art and Culture in Lahore and has published numerous articles on the history of miniature painting. He is currently working toward a PhD in South Asian art history at the University of Virginia.