Art and Religious Devotion in Morocco: Notes on a Calligraphic Panel from the Harvard Art Museums. A large-scale calligraphic panel from Morocco, currently on view in the “Art from Islamic Lands: The Middle East and North Africa” Gallery on Level 2, features stylized views of Mecca and Medina and representation of the Prophet Muhammad’s sandals, alongside prayers praising the Prophet and a selection of verses from the Qur’an. This striking work raises the broad question of representational imagery in an Islamic devotional context as well as the more specific matter of artistic transfer from illustrated copies of the Dala’il al-Khayrat (The Ways of Edification). This famous collection of prayers blessing the Prophet, compiled by the 15th-century Sufi mystic Muhammad ibn Sulayman al-Jazuli of Morocco, found a wide and enthusiastic audience in Islamic lands in the 18th and 19th centuries. In this lecture, Mounia Chekhab Abudaya, curator for North Africa and Iberia at the Museum of Islamic Art, in Doha, Qatar, will examine the expression of religious devotion through the production of images that reflect a clear mediation with Islamic holy sites and relics of the Prophet. Support for this lecture is provided by The Norma Jean Calderwood Lecture Fund. The Norma Jean Calderwood Lecture Fund honors a longtime friend of the Harvard Art Museums who pursued graduate study in Islamic art at Harvard and who for many years taught Islamic and Asian art at Boston College and at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Wednesday, March 6, 2019, Menschel Hall, Harvard Art Museums.