Alka Patel

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Alka Patel is an art historian and associate professor at the University of California, Irvine .

Life

Patel received her BA from Mount Holyoke College and her PhD from Harvard University. Her research focuses on South Asia and its connections to Iran and Central Asia on overland and maritime networks. She further delves into the Islamic history of the Maghreb and the Islamic diaspora in the New World.

Works (selection)

Monographs

  • Building Communities in Gujarat: Architecture and Society during the Twelfth-Fourteenth Centuries . 1st edition. Brill, Boston 2004, ISBN 90-04-13890-0 .
  • The Architecture of the Indian Sultanates . Marg, 2006, ISBN 81-85026-75-0 (116 pages).

As editor

  • Alka Patel (Ed.): Indo-Muslim Cultures in Transition . BRILL, 2011, ISBN 978-90-04-21887-1 .
  • Alka Patel (Ed.): Communities and Commodities: Western India and the Indian Ocean, 11th – 15th Centuries . 2007.
  • Alka Patel, Daryāyī, Tūraǧ (Ed.): India and Iran in the "Longue Durée" . 2004.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alka Patel. Retrieved September 25, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Patel, Alka
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American art historian
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century