In her 2017 solo exhibition at PARTICIPANT, iamuslima, Baseera Khan’s Psychedelic Prayer Rugs occupied an area of the exhibition equipped with a shelving unit and book stand functioning as a Reading Room, On Purpose, where one could read a variety of books and view personal archives that comprised research related to the exhibition. The Reading Room, On Purpose contained one handcrafted book, compiled by the artist, called Core-On (pronounced ‘core dash on’) – Khan’s Qur'an, which tells the story of her work through images, notes, and mappings. On the occasion of her 2021 solo exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum, I Am an Archive, Participant Press and Housing published an edition of 600 copies of this book.
