The conference on the Materiality of Ziyāra in the Early Islamic World Tombs, Shrines, Practices and Politics (ca. 650-1300 CE) was organized by Aila Santi (Leiden University) and Sinem Casale (University of Minnesota), and supported by the ERC Horizon Starting Grant Project “Embodied Imamate: Mapping the Development of the Early Shiʿi Community 700-900 CE’. The conference took place at the end of October at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut, Italy. Three of the ‘Land, Space, Power’ Project members (namely: Finn Lindo-Dunn, Kyle Longworth and Petra Sijpesteijn) presented at this conference,
