Mehreen Chida-Razvi is an art historian and a research associate at the School of Art, SOAS, University of London. She also holds the position of Deputy Curator of the Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art. Her research focuses on Mughal and Persianate art and architecture, material culture, urbanism, as well as the historical and cultural connections between 17th-century Muslim South Asia and regions such as Iran, Anatolia, and Europe.
Her most recent publications include « Picturing the Mughal Madonna: The Virgin Mary as a Symbol of Mughal Legitimacy and Royal Authority in Jahangir’s Architecture » (2022), « Power and Politics of Representation: Picturing Elite Women in Ilkhanid Painting »(2021), « Lahore’s Badshahi Masjid: Spatial interactions of the Sacred and the Secular » (2020) « Patronage as Power, Power in Appropriation: Constructing Jahangir’s Mausoleum » (2019). She is also the author of ‘Where is ‘The Greatest city in the East’?: The Mughal City of Lahore in European Travel Accounts between 1556 and 1648 (Routledge, 2015).