Associate Professor Yürekli-Görkay
Thursdays 09.00 – 11.00, Weeks 3, 6, 8
Please note: These classes are restricted to students on the M.Phil. in Islamic Art & Archaeology. Students to choose three topics, one from each category. Essays are due by Wednesday noon in weeks 3, 6 and 8.
Architecture
- Ottoman Istanbul / Safavid Isfahan / Shahjahanabad (choose and compare)
- Sinan: the architect and his times
- Blue Mosque, Istanbul: a controversial monument
- Sufi shrines in the age of empires
Architectural Decoration & Objects
- Movement of fifteenth-century craftsmen and techniques across Mamluk, Timurid, Turkmen, Anatolian beylik lands
- Ottoman tiles, ‘black-line’ vs. Iznik
- Late Mamluk and ‘Veneto-Saracenic’ Metalwork
Manuscripts
- The arts of the book under the Timurids
- Persian painting after the Timurids
- Ottoman illustrated dynastic histories and/or portraiture
