Postgraduate Course: Interactions of Islamic and Christian Art in the Medieval Islamic World (HIAR11067)
Course Outline
| School | Edinburgh College of Art |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Credits | 20 |
| Home subject area | History of Art |
Other subject area | None |
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Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | In the regions around the Mediterranean the rise of Islamic art took place within a Christian context. On the one hand the reference was the imperial art promoted by the Byzantines before the 7th century Islamic conquest: the early Islamic use of glass and gold wall mosaics in religious and secular contexts and the development of ceremonial protocols connecting the royal palaces to Friday mosques owed to the pre-Islamic imperial traditions established by the Byzantines and still in use in their capital on the Bosphporus. On the other hand the new Islamic society included large Christian groups who at the same time both continued the late antique traditions and adapted their cultural expressions to the new political system. After an analysis of the late antique legacy incorporated in the rise of Islamic art and architecture, the course will focus on a series of encounters between Islamic and Christian art within the Islamic world, such as: the corrections of several Christian pavement mosaics along the Jordan river after the Islamic conquest, the different reuses of late-antique spolia in Islamic architecture around the Mediterranean, the production of artworks by the Turkish medieval dynasties in relation to the nearby Armenian and Georgian art in the Caucasus, and the production of medieval Islamic metalwork with Christian iconography in late medieval Syria and Mesopotamia. |
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | None |
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Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
| Through a series of case-studies, students will learn how to critically analyze the different modalities through which certain techniques, aesthetics patterns, and iconographies were transferred between different religious communities within the medieval Islamic world. |
Assessment Information
| 4,000 word essay |
Special Arrangements
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Contacts
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Course secretary | Miss Susan Mitchell
Tel: (0131 6)51 5743
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