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Postgraduate Course: Around 900: The Early Islamic West in a Global Context (HIAR11099)

Course Outline
SchoolEdinburgh College of Art CollegeCollege of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) AvailabilityAvailable to all students
SCQF Credits20 ECTS Credits10
SummaryThis course is designed for students interested in early and medieval Islamic arts the Islamic West (Iberian Peninsula and North Africa). It explores the major monuments and visual culture of Islamic North Africa and Spain from around the year 900 to 1492 in their global contexts.
Course description We will explore monuments and visual/material culture of the early and medieval Iberian Peninsula and North Africa, from the Great Mosques of Córdoba and Kairouan to the Alhambra in Granada. Major themes will include the place of the Islamic West in Islamic art history, global heritage, and museum collections and display, the global Middle Ages, conceptions of sovereignty (earthly and divine), gender and art-making, and connections between art, architecture and other spheres of cultural production such as music.
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisitesAvailable to visiting History of Art students with prior approval by course secretary.
High Demand Course? Yes
Course Delivery Information
Academic year 2023/24, Available to all students (SV1) Quota:  10
Course Start Semester 1
Timetable Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) Total Hours: 200 ( Seminar/Tutorial Hours 20, Feedback/Feedforward Hours 2, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 174 )
Assessment (Further Info) Written Exam 0 %, Coursework 100 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment) FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT
Students will give a class presentation and will be supported to develop this in a one-to-one meeting beforehand, and will receive verbal feedback at a one-to-one meeting afterwards.

1 x 4000 word SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT: Written feedback on student essays will be provided, in addition to a one-to-one meeting
Feedback In addition to the feedback given on the formative assessment presentation, students will be given a one-to-one meeting to discuss the presentation in advance. They will also have a one-to-one meeting to discuss the outcome of the summative assessment.
No Exam Information
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
  1. Evidence a detailed knowledge and understanding of the arts and visual culture of the early/medieval Islamic west
  2. Demonstrate a critical awareness of the way this period and region has been analysed and critiqued in the scholarship
  3. Perceive and analyse the ways in which forms, materials, techniques, and ideas developed during earlier periods (antiquity & late antiquity) around the Mediterranean continued to underpin later medieval arts in the Islamic west
  4. Demonstrate confidence in identifying, conceptualising and defining new problems and issues raised by the material
Reading List
The Aghlabids and Their Neighbours: Art and Material Culture in 9th-Century North Africa. Glaire D. Anderson, Corisande Fenwick, and Mariam Rosser-Owen, eds. Leiden: Brill, 2017. Al-Andalus:
The Art of Islamic Spain. New York: Distributed by H.N. Abrams, 1992. Fenwick, C.
Early Islamic North Africa. Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. Li Lintz, Y. et al.
Maroc médiéval: Un empire de l¿Afrique à l¿Espagne. Paris: Musée du Louvre Editions & Hazan, 2014. Rosser-Owen, Mariam.
Islamic Arts from Spain. Hardback ed. London: Distributed in North America by Harry N. Abrams, 2010.
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills 1.Detailed knowledge and understanding of the Islamic arts and visual culture around 900 CE;
2. A critical understanding of the principal theories, concepts and principles in the literature on the art of this culture and period;
3. The ability to apply your knowledge, skills and understanding in using a range of skills and techniques to analyse visual and textual materials;
4. The ability to present and convey, both in writing and orally, information about specialised topics to peers and to specialists in a professional manner.
KeywordsIslam,Medieval,Spain,Tunisia,Ummayad,Aghlabid,Islamic arts
Contacts
Course organiserDr Glaire Anderson
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Course secretaryMr Nathan Ross-Hammond
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