Contributions in: Keelan Overton, dir. and ed. The Emamzadeh Yahya at Varamin: An Online Exhibition of an Iranian Shrine. 33 Arches Productions, 2025. Host: Khamseen: Islamic Art History Online, https://khamseen-emamzadeh-yahya-varamin.hart.lsa.umich.edu:

  • Essay: “Introduction to the Emamzadeh Yahya Project and Online Exhibition” (link)
  • Essay: “Introduction to the Checklist: A Curatorial Experiment” (link) 
  • Essay with Hossein Nakhaei: “Chronological Overview of the Emamzadeh Yahya Complex, ca. 1200–2024” (link)
  • Essay with Hossein Nakhaei: “The Stucco Inscription in the Tomb of Emamzadeh Yahya: From Architectural Ornament to Historical Memory” (link) 
  • Essay with Hossein Nakhaei: “Sites with Persian Luster Tiles, ca. 1200–1350” (link)
  • Essay with Hossein Nakhaei (multi-chapter, ~50,000 words): “From Varamin to Honolulu: The Displacement, Commodification, and Aestheticization of the Emamzadeh Yahya’s Luster Mihrab, 1863–2025” (published 16 November 2025; link)
  • Visual Timeline with Hossein Nakhaei, conceived in relation to the above: “From Varamin to Honolulu: The Displacement, Commodification, and Aestheticization of the Emamzadeh Yahya’s Luster Mihrab, 1863–2025” (published 16 November 2025; link)
  • Essay with Trinitat Pradell, Judit Molera, and Moujan Matin: “Microanalytical and Microstructural Analysis of Thirteenth-Century Luster Tiles Attributed to the Emamzadeh Yahya in Varamin, and a Comparison to a Nineteenth-Century Imitation ‘Luster’ Tile by ʿAli Mohammad Esfahani” (link) (published 7 June 2026)
  • Film with Fuchsia Hart: Between the Object, Archive, and Gallery: Luster Tiles Attributed to the Emamzadeh Yahya in the V&A, London (link) (YouTube)
  • Film with Alejandra Tafur Manrique and Martina Massullo: Behind the Scenes of the Archive and Photograph: Fonds Godard, musée du Louvre (link) (YouTube)
  • Custom layered feature: “Photo Timeline: A Visual History of the Emamzadeh Yahya, 1880s–1980s” (link)
  • Custom layered feature (multi-author): “A Luster Cabinet in Tehran, ca. 1880s, and Its Global Dispersal” (link) (final additions in progress)
  • Custom layered feature (multi-author): “Behind the Lens: The Photographers of the Emamzadeh Yahya and Varamin” (link)
  • Digital interactive (Exhibit): “Tour of a Photograph: Ritual Objects in the Tomb of Emamzadeh Yahya, April 1958” (link)
  • Digital interactive (ArcGIS StoryMap) with Hossein Nakhaei: “The Architectural Heritage of Varamin: From the Sasanian to Early Pahlavi Periods” (link)
  • Digital interactive (Storiiies) with Hossein Nakhaei: “The Emamzadeh Yahya Through the Eyes of ʿAliqoli Mirza Eʿtezad al-Saltaneh: Notes from a Qajar Court Visit to Varamin in 1279/1863 and a Biography of Emamzadeh Yahya dated 1294/1877” (link)

Keelan Overton, “Jane Dieulafoy in Varamin: The Emamzadeh Yahya through a Nineteenth-Century Lens.” Getty Research Journal, v. 19 (spring 2024): 57-91. (online version)

Keelan Overton, “Mapping the Safavid/Bijapur/Mughal/Savanur/Mysore/St Andrews Qur’an: A Diachronic Life History.” In Imagined Geographies in the Mediterranean, Middle East, and Beyond, eds. Dimitri Kastritsis, Anna Stavrakopoulou, and Angus Stewart. Cambridge: Center for Hellenic Studies, Harvard University Press, 2023, 111-136.

Keelan Overton, “Framing, Performing, Forgetting: The Emamzadeh Yahya at Varamin.” Platform, September 19, 2022. [online]

Keelan Overton and Kimia Maleki, “The Emamzadeh Yahya at Varamin: A Present History of a Living Shrine, 2018-20.” Journal of Material Cultures in the Muslim World 1, no. 1-2 (2020): 120-149. [pdf] [online version: 09 Feb 2021]

Contributions in: Keelan Overton, ed. Iran and the Deccan: Persianate Art, Culture, and Talent in Circulation, 1400-1700. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2020.

  • Keelan Overton, “Introduction to Iranian Mobilities and Persianate Mediations in the Deccan.” Chapter 1 in Iran and the Deccan: Persianate Art, Culture, and Talent in Circulation, 1400-1700, ed. Keelan Overton, Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2020, 3-76.
  • Keelan Overton and Kristine Rose-Beers (with contributions by Bruce Wannell), “Indo-Persian Histories from the Object Out: the St Andrews Qur’an manuscript between Timurid, Safavid, Mughal, and Deccani worlds.” Chapter 10 in Iran and the Deccan: Persianate Art, Culture, and Talent in Circulation, 1400-1700, ed. Keelan Overton. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2020, 257-336.

Keelan Overton and Jake Benson, “Deccani Seals and Scribal Notations: Sources for the Study of Indo-Persian Book Arts and Collecting (c. 1400-1680).” In The Empires of the Near East and India: Source Studies of the Safavid, Ottoman, and Mughal Literate Communities, ed. Hani Khafipour. New York: Columbia University Press, April 2019, 554-96. [pdf] 

Keelan Overton, “Farrukh Ḥusayn.” Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE, Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2017, 67-78. [print pdf] [online version]

Keelan Overton, “Filming, Photographing and Purveying in ‘the New Iran:’ The Legacy of Stephen H. Nyman, ca. 1937–42.” In Arthur Upham Pope and A New Survey of Persian Art, ed. Yuka Kadoi. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2016, 327-70. [pdf]

Keelan Overton, “Book Culture, Royal Libraries, and Persianate Painting in Bijapur, circa 1580-1630.” Muqarnas: An Annual on the Visual Cultures of the Islamic World 33 (2016): 91-154. [pdf]

Keelan Overton, “Bahmanī dynasty.” The Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE, Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2016, 8-16 [print pdf] [online version]

Keelan Overton, “Vida de Jacques de Coutre: A Flemish account of Bijapuri visual culture in the shadow of Mughal felicity.” In The Visual World of Muslim India: The Art, Culture and Society of the Deccan in the Early Modern Era, ed. Laura Parodi. London: I.B. Tauris, 2014, 233-64. [pdf]

Keelan Overton, “From Pahlavi Isfahan to Pacific Shangri La: Reviving, Restoring, and Reinventing Safavid Aesthetics, c. 1920-40.” West 86th: A Journal of Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture 19, 1 (Spring-Summer 2012): 61-87. [print pdf] [online version]

Keelan Overton, “A History of Ottoman Art History through the Private Database of Edwin Binney, 3rd.” Journal of Art Historiography 6, special volume on “Islamic Art Historiography,” eds. Moya Carey and Margaret Graves (June 2012): 1-19. [pdf]

Keelan Overton, “‘Maid killing a snake’ and ‘Dervish receiving a visitor:’ A Re-examination of Bijapuri masterpieces through the lens of the Lucknow copy.” In Indo-Muslim Cultures in Transition, eds. Alka Patel and Karen Leonard. Leiden: Brill, 2012, 37-60. [pdf]

Keelan Overton, “‘Ali Riza (The Bodleian Painter).” In Masters of Indian Painting I: 1100-1650, eds. Milo Beach, B.N. Goswamy and Eberhard Fischer. Zurich: Artibus Asiae Publishers, 2011, 375-90. [pdf]