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, 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 2–4 PM, Weeks 1–8 (KRC Lecture Room)
Week 1: The formation of Islamic art and architecture
Week 2: The archaeology of early Islam
Week 3: Umayyad elite establishments
Week 4: Numismatics, epigraphy, administration
Week 5: Abbasid Samarra and Tulunid Egypt
Week 6: Early Quranic calligraphy and illumination
Week 7: Early Islamic Ifrīqiya and the Aghlabids
Week 8: The Umayyad Caliphate of Córdoba
Portfolio of Practical Work
Teaching staff: Umberto Bongianino, Günseli Gürel, Jochen Sokoly, Silke Ackermann
Restricted to second-year students on the MPhil in Islamic Art and Architecture
Thursdays 2–4 PM in Weeks 2, 4, 6, 8
Week 2: Tiraz (JS), Ashmolean Museum
Week 4: Astrolabes (SA), History of Science Museum
Week 6: Manuscripts (UB), Weston Library
Week 8: Manuscripts (GG), Weston Library
Option: Introduction to Arabic Palaeography
Teaching staff: Umberto Bongianino, Edward Shawe-Taylor
Open to all Oxford students with a good grounding in Arabic. A written examination will be set for second-year students on the MPhil in Islamic Art and Architecture, the MPhil in Islamic Studies and History and the MSt in Medieval Studies.
Mondays 2–5 PM, Weeks 1–8 (KRC Lecture Room)
Week 1: Egypt under the Tulunids and the Ikhshidids
Week 2: Written culture in early Islamic Ifrīqiya
Week 3: The Christians of al-Andalus and ‘Mozarabic’ scripts Week 4: The early Fatimid period
Week 5: The late Fatimid period
Week 6: Arabic documents from Norman Sicily
Week 7: The Ayyubids and the Mamluks
Week 8: The Marinids and their neighbours
KRC Research Seminar
Convenors: Umberto Bongianino, Günseli Gürel
Thursdays 5.15–6.45 PM, Weeks 1–8 (KRC Lecture Room)
Week 1 (16th October) - The Tower of the Winds in Ottoman Athens: Temple, Pharos, Tent and Mosque - Elizabeth Key Fowden (University of Cambridge)
Week 2 (23rd October) - Collecting Iznik: the Benaki Museum, its patrons and influences in twentieth-century Greece - Mina Moraitou (Benaki Museum, Athens)
Week 3 (30st October) - Clothing the Caliphate: dress cultures of the early Islamic period - Jochen Sokoly (Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts in Qatar)
Week 4 (6th November) - From Bosphorus to Nile: mapping, depicting, and portraying the Ottoman Imperial world in the late eighteenth century - Hilal Uğurlu (MEF University, Istanbul)
Week 5 (13th November) - Translating the image: art, science and global imagination in the first Islamic description of the New World (Tarih-i Hind-i Garbi) - Sinem Arcak Casale (University of Minnesota)
Week 6 (20th November) - New directions in the study of ivories from the Islamic world: a talk and handling session - Mariam Rosser-Owen (V&A) and Ashley Coutu (Pitt Rivers Museum)
Week 7 (27th November) - 16:00: What was modern Islamic art? - William Gallois (University of Exeter); 17:15: Documenting Multiculturalism: The Arabic Documents of Sicily Website - Jeremy Johns & Daniel Burt (KRC)
Week 8 (4th December) - Painting and poetry at the court of Fath Ali Shah Qajar (1797–1834) - Fuchsia Hart (Victoria & Albert Museum, London)
