Art, Wit, and Might in Islamic Courts
ARHA 289
Spring 2025
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01
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How do artists, patrons, and audiences negotiate power and aesthetic pleasure? This course examines the art produced for courtly elites between 1300-1800 in the Islamic world. In recent years, scholars have increasingly relied on the term "Persianate culture" to describe a set of literary texts, bodily practices, and codes of conduct shared in courts across the Islamic world. Our focus will be this shared courtly culture, supplemented with comparative cases from other parts of the world. We will study luxury objects, poetry, architecture, illustrated manuscripts, customs of dining, princely collections, and objects of sensory pleasure to understand how courtiers fashioned identities, and how the arts shaped courtly societies. Readings include primary sources and influential secondary texts from art history, literature, and the social sciences. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
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| Course Format: Lecture / Discussion | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: (ARHA-MN)(ARHA) |
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Past Enrollment Probability: 90% or above |
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| Instructor(s): Ünlüönen,Selin Times: ..T.R.. 02:50PM-04:10PM; Location: BOGH115; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 25 | | SR major: 0 | JR major: 0 | | |
| Seats Available: 14 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: 7 | JR non-major: 6 | SO: 6 | FR: 6 |
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