HU Credits: 2

Degree/Cycle: 1st degree (Bachelor)

Responsible Department: History of Art

Semester: 2nd Semester

Teaching Languages: Hebrew

Campus: Mt. Scopus

Course/Module Coordinator: Tawfiq Da'adli

Coordinator Email: taufik.deadlee@mail.huji.ac.il

Coordinator Office Hours:

Teaching Staff:
Dr. Taufik Da'adala

Course/Module description:
This course will deal with various works from the world of Islam, place them in the historical and cultural context and suggest ways to understand them. It is about wandering in the world of Islam through the creation of art that reflects religious and cultural aspects that often have no expression in historical documents.

Course/Module aims:

Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
Familiarity with Muslim art and history, culture and religion and their expression in art.

Attendance requirements(%):
100

Teaching arrangement and method of instruction:

Course/Module Content:

Objects 1
Avinoam Shalem, "The Discovery and Rediscovery of the Medieval Islamic Object," in A Companion to Islamic Art and Architecture, vol.I, eds. Finbarr Barry Flood and Gürlü Necipoglu (Hoboken: John Wiley and Sons, 2017), 558-578.
Gürlü Necipoglu, The Concept of Islamic Art: Inherited Discourses and New Approaches, in Islamic Art and The Museum, eds. Beoit Junod, Georges Khalil, Stefan Weber and Gerhard Wolf (London: Saqi Books, 2012), 57-75.
Home I
2
Katherine Strange Burke and Donald Whitcomb, "Quseir al-Qadim in the Thirteenth Century: A Community and Its Textiles," Ars Orientalis 34 (2004): 82-97.
Li Guo, Commerce, Culture, and Community in a Red Sea Port in the Thirteenth Century: The Arabic Documents from Quseir (Leiden: Brill, 2004), Chapter One, The Sheikh House. 1-28.
Home II
3
Ron Fuchs, "The Palestinian Arab House and the Islamic "Primitive Hut," Muqarnas 15 (1998): 157-177.
Tawfiq Canaan, The Palestinian Arab House its Architecture and Folklore (Jerusalem: Syrian Orphanage Press, 1933), chapter VII (Folklore of the House).
Ceramic
4
חגית טורגה, "שרידי מבנים ומחסני בית יוצר (?) מהתקופה הממלוכית והעות'מאנית ברמלה," עתיקות 67 (2011): 118-91.
עפר שיאון ועבד אל סלאם סעיד, "בית אמידים משלהי התקופה הביזנטית והתקופה האומאית בבית שאן," קדמוניות 126. 107-113.
Oliver Watson, "Ceramics and Circulation," in A Companion to Islamic Art and Architecture, vol.I, eds. Finbarr Barry Flood and Gürlü Necipoglu (Hoboken: John Wiley and Sons, 2017), 478-500.
Rosalind A .Wade Haddon, "Mongol Influences on Mamluk Ceramics in the Fourteenth Century, in The Arts of the Mamluks in Egypt and Syria-Evolution and Impact, ed. Doris Behrens-Abouseif (Bonn: Bonn University Press, 2012), 95-113.
Coins
5
Luke Treadwell, "The Formation of Religious and Caliphal Identity in the Umayyad Period: The Evidence of the Coinage," in A Companion to Islamic Art and Architecture, vol.I, eds. Finbarr Barry Flood and Gürlü Necipoglu (Hoboken: John Wiley and Sons, 2017), 89-108.
Metal I
6
Eva R. Hoffman, "Pathways of Portability: Islamic and Christian Interchange from the Tenth to the Twelfth Century," in Late Antique and Medieval Art of the Mediterranean world, ed. Eva R. Hoffman (Malden: Blackwell Publishing, 2007), 317-349.
Rachel Ward, "Style versus Substance: The Christian Iconography on Two Vessels Made for the Ayyubid Sultan al-Salih Ayyub," in The Iconography of Islamic Art: Studies in Honour of Robert Hillenbrand, ed. Bernard O'Kane (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2005), 309-324.
Metal II
7
Eva R. Hoffman and Scott Redford, "Transculturation in the Eastern Mediterranean," in A Companion to Islamic Art and Architecture, vol.I, eds. Finbarr Barry Flood and Gürlü Necipoglu (Hoboken: John Wiley and Sons, 2017), 405-430.
James W. Allan and Ruba Kana'an, "The Social and Economic Life of Metalwork," in A Companion to Islamic Art and Architecture, vol.I, eds. Finbarr Barry Flood and Gürlü Necipoglu (Hoboken: John Wiley and Sons, 2017), 453-477.
Wood
8
Eva R. Hoffman, "A Fatimid Book Cover: Framing and Re-framing Cultural Identity in the Medieval Mediterranean World," in L'Egypte Fatimide son art et son Historie, ed. Marianne Barrucand (Paris: Presses de l'Université de Paris-Sorbonne, 1999), 403-419.
Marilyn Jenkins, "An Eleventh-Century Woodcarving from a Cairo Nunnery," in Islamic Art in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, ed. Richard Ettinghausen (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1972), 227-240.
Mina'i
9
Marianna Shreve Simpson, "Narrative Allusion and Metaphor in the Decorative of Medieval Islamic Objects," Studies in the History of Art 16 (1985): 131-149.
Marianna Shreve Simpson, "The Narrative Structure of a Medieval Iranian Beaker," Ars Orientalis 12 (1981): 1-24.
Renata Holod, "Event and Memory: The Freer Gallery's Siege Scene Plate," Ars Orientalis 42 (2012): 194-219.
Mihrab
10
Luke Tredwell, "Mihrab and 'Anaza" or "Sacrum and Spear"? A reconsideration of an Early Marwanid Silver Drachm," Muqarnas 22 (2015): 1-28.
Géza Fehérvari, "Tombstone or Mihrāb? A speculation," in Islamic Art in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, ed. Richard Ettinghausen (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1972), 241-254.
Heba Mostafa, "The Early Mosque revisited: Introduction of the Minbar and Maqsura," Muqarnas 33 (2016): 1-6.
Fabric
11
Jochen Sokoly, "Textiles and Identity," in A Companion to Islamic Art and Architecture, vol.I, eds. Finbarr Barry Flood and Gürlü Necipoglu (Hoboken: John Wiley and Sons, 2017), 275-299.
Walter B. Denny, "Carpets, Textiles, and Trade in the Early Modern Islamic World," in A Companion to Islamic Art and Architecture, vol.II, eds. Finbarr Barry Flood and Gürlü Necipoglu (Hoboken: John Wiley and Sons, 2017), 972-995.
Amulets
12
Venetia Porter, Liana Saif, and Emilie Savage-Smith, "Medieval Islamic Amulets, Talismans, and Magic," in A Companion to Islamic Art and Architecture, vol.I, eds. Finbarr Barry Flood and Gürlü Necipoglu (Hoboken: John Wiley and Sons, 2017), 521-557.
Sylvia Auld, "Birds and Blessings: A kohl-post from Jerusalem," in The Iconography of slamic Art: Studies in Honour of Robert Hillenbrand, ed. Bernard O'Kane (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2005), 1-22.
Myriam Rosen-Ayalon, "Four Iranian Bracelets Seen in the Light of Early Islamic Art," in Islamic Art in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, ed. Richard Ettinghausen (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1972), 169-186.
Museum collection
13
Stephen Vernoit, "Islamic Art in the West: Categories of Collecting," in A Companion to Islamic Art and Architecture, vol.II, eds. Finbarr Barry Flood and Gürlü Necipoglu (Hoboken: John Wiley and Sons, 2017), 1172-1195.
Wendy M.K. Shaw, "Islamic Art in Islamic Lands: Museums and Architectural Revivalism, in A Companion to Islamic Art and Architecture, vol.II, eds. Finbarr Barry Flood and Gürlü Necipoglu (Hoboken: John Wiley and Sons, 2017), 1150-1171.
Museum exhibition
14
David J. Roxburgh, "Au Bonheur des Amateurs: Collecting and Exhibiting Islamic Art, ca/ 1880-1910," Ars Orientalis 30 (2000): 9-38.
Tomoko Masuya, "Persian Tiles on European Walls: Collecting Ilkhanid Tiles in Nineteenth-Century Europe, Ars Orientalis 30 (2000):39-53.

Required Reading:
It is required to read and submit a one-page summary of four articles throughout the semester. In addition, reading and presenting in class, a fifth article in one of the classes.

Additional Reading Material:

Course/Module evaluation:
End of year written/oral examination 0 %
Presentation 0 %
Participation in Tutorials 0 %
Project work 70 %
Assignments 30 %
Reports 0 %
Research project 0 %
Quizzes 0 %
Other 0 %

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