You are Invited to Join SACHI’s 25th Anniversary Celebration with Distinguished Scholar

Dr. Navina Haidar 

Curator in Charge, Dept. of Islamic Art

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

In a live, in-person sublime presentation

Jali:

Lattice of ‘divine light’ in Mughal architecture and its legacy

“Jali” is the Indian term for a perforated stone or latticed screen, an exquisitely carved feature of Mughal architecture. The ornamental patterns of Mughal jali screens draw onthe compositional rhythms of arabesques and geometry to create extraordinary visual effects with filtered light in interior and exterior spaces.