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2023-2024 Undergraduate Catalog

ARTH 332. Islamic Art and Architecture


Credits 3.00 PeopleSoft Course ID 012437 Grading Basis GRD

This course will consider art from the age of the prophet Muhammad through the sixteenth century. The political and cultural contexts in which Islamic art developed will lay the foundations for understanding later traditions. These may include the role of the mosque in Muslim society; calligraphy and illustrated books; palace building and the arts of luxury; and modes of figural representation, including issues of gender.