Lâl Verda Karaoğlu is a second-year Ph.D. student in the History of Art and Architecture department at Brown University. She works on 18th- to 20th-century Ottoman art, with a focus on relics of the Prophet Muhammad and their iconographic reproductions, hilye panels, prayer books, and other visual and verbal representations of the Prophet. Before joining Brown, Verda worked in the Textiles Department at the Art Institute of Chicago, cataloging and documenting the museum’s collection of 17th- to 20th-century Ottoman domestic textiles.