LECTURES, SEMINARS & CLASSES
Teaching this term will be delivered in person in the KRC Lecture Room. If you have any questions regarding online access, please contact daniel.burt@ames.ox.ac.uk
Please refer to the Canvas website for teaching materials relative to the MPhil and MSt in Islamic Art and Architecture: https://canvas.ox.ac.uk.
History of Islamic Art and Architecture I (7th–10th centuries)
Teaching staff: Umberto Bongianino, with special lectures by Arietta Papacostantinou and Juan de Lara
Restricted to first-year students on the MPhil in Islamic Art and Architecture, as well as AMES students accepted for an option, further subject, or special subject in Islamic Art and Architecture.
Tuesdays, 3:30–5 PM, Weeks 1–8 (KRC Lecture Room)
Week 1 (15 October): The formation of Islamic art and architecture
Week 2 (22 October): The archaeology of early Islam
Week 3 (29 October): Umayyad elite establishments
Week 4 (5 November): Numismatics, epigraphy, administration
Week 5 (12 November): Abbasid Samarra and Tulunid Egypt
Week 6 (19 November): Early Quranic calligraphy and illumination
Week 7 (26 November): Early Islamic Ifrīqiya and the Aghlabids
Week 8 (3 December): The Umayyad caliphate of Córdoba
Portfolio of Practical Work
Teaching staff: Umberto Bongianino, Zeynep Yürekli
Restricted to second-year students on the MPhil in Islamic Art and Architecture
Thursdays 2–4 PM, Weeks 2, 5, 8
Week 2 (24 October): Architecture (ZY), St Margaret Church, Binsey
Week 5 (14 November): Epigraphic Metalwork (UB), Ashmolean Museum
Week 8 (5 December): Ceramics (UB), Ashmolean Museum
KRC Research Seminars
All welcome
Thursdays 5.15–6.45 PM, Weeks 1–8 (KRC Lecture Room)
Week 1 (17 October): Islam in Ethiopia: a reflection on recent developments - Jacopo Gnisci (University College London)
Week 2 (24 October): Gold textiles for golden rooms in early medieval caliphal settings - Juan de Lara (Khalili Research Centre)
Week 3 (31 October): Heritage in motion after World War I: treasures from al-Masjid an-Nabawī and the Qur’an of caliph Uthman - Nilay Özlü (Istanbul Technical University)
Week 4 (7 November): New insights into the economic and social history of Islamic Palermo through pottery - Viva Sacco (University College London)
Week 5 (14 November): Quranic manuscripts from China: observations on a lesser-explored tradition - Wassilena Sekulova (Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies)
Week 6 (21 November): An Ottoman banner in the Sanctuary of the Holy House of Loreto - Mattia Guidetti (University of Bologna)
Week 7 (28 November): What is the sensory history of Islamic art? - Suzanne Compagnon (Utrecht University)
Week 8 (5 December): Zoomorphic seals in Ottoman book culture and the question of early modern antiquarianism - Boris Liebrenz (Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Leipzig)
