History of Art 12x: Introduction to Islamic Architecture Prof. Gülru Necipoglu Fall 2000 Tu/Th 12:00-1:00 Sackler Museum 318 Requirements A. Midterm examination (25%) B. 10 page paper, chosen from a list of topics (35%) C. Final exam (40%) Graduate students may substitute these requirements by writing a research paper (30-35 pages) and preparing a preliminary bibliography for that paper during midterm period. All required readings are available on reserve at the Fine Arts Library. Ettinghausen & Grabar, The Art and Architecture of Islam 650-1250 and Blair & Bloom, The Art and Architecture of Islam 1250-1800 are recommended for purchase and are available at the Harvard Coop. Syllabus Tu., Sept.19 Introduction Ettinghausen & Grabar, The Art and Architecture of Islam 650-1250 (hereafter Pelican I ), pp.17-25 Blair & Bloom, The Art and Architecture of Islam 1250-1800 (hereafter Pelican II ), pp.1-4 Th., Sept.21 Umayyad Religious Architecture: The Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem Pelican I, pp.17-34 O. Grabar, The Umayyad Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem M. Rosen-Ayalon, The Early Islamic Monuments of al-haram al- Sharif, pp.12-24, 46-73
Tu., Sept.26 Umayyad Religious Architecture: The Mosque Pelican I, pp.34-45 O. Grabar, The Formation of Islamic Art, pp.43-131 Th., Sept.28 Umayyad Secular Buildings Pelican I, pp.45-71 R. Hillenbrand, Islamic Art at the Crossroads: East versus West at Mshatta Tu., Oct.3 Abbasid Baghdad and Samarra: Secular Buildings Pelican I, pp.75-80 N. Al-Sayyad, Cities and Caliphs: On the Genesis of Arab Muslim Urbanism, pp.113-39 C. Wendell, Baghdad, Imago mundi and other Foundation Lore Th., Oct.5 Samarra and its Echoes in the Provinces: Mosques Pelican I, pp.80-94, 102-5, 124-5 J. M. Rogers, Samarra: A Study in Medieval Town Planning Tu., Oct.10 Th., Oct.12 Early Islamic Architecture in North Africa and Spain Pelican I, pp.94-101, 127-40 J. Dodds, The Great Mosque of Cordoba, in Al-Andalus: The Art of Islamic Spain, pp.11-25 A. J. Triano, Madinat al-zahra, ibid., pp.27-39 Fatimid Architecture in North Africa and Cairo Pelican I, pp.176-86 J. Bloom, The Origins of Fatimid Art N. Al-Sayyad, Cities and Caliphs, pp.133-51 Tu., Oct.17 The Great Seljuqs of Iran, 11 th -13 th Centuries Pelican I, pp.209-24, 253-91 J. M. Rogers, The Eleventh Century: A Turning Point in the Architecture of the Mashriq? in Islamic Civilisation 950-1150, pp.211-50 G. Makdisi, The Sunni Revival, ibid., pp.155-68 2
Th., Oct.19 Architecture of the Seljuq Successor States in Iraq and Syria Pelican I, pp.294-313 Y. Tabbaa, Propagation of Jihad under Nur al-din Tu., Oct.24 Seljuqs of Anatolia Pelican I, pp.313-27 A. Kuran, Anatolian Seljuq Architecture, in The Art and Architecture of Turkey, pp.80-110 Th., Oct.26 Early Islamic Architecture in India Pelican I, pp.291-4, 149-60 A. Welch, Architectural Patronage and the Past: The Tughluq Sultans of India Tu., Oct.31 North Africa and Spain under the Almoravids and Almohads Pelican I, pp.140-5 M. C. Perez, The Almoravids and Almohads, in Al-Andalus, pp.75-83 C. Ewert, The Architectural Heritage of Islamic Spain and North Africa, ibid., pp.85-97 Th., Nov.2 Arrival of the Mongols: Ilkhanid Architecture in Iran and Central Asia Pelican II, pp.5-19 S. Blair, The Mongol Capital of Sultaniyya: The Imperial Tu., Nov.7 Early Mamluk Architecture in Syria and Egypt Pelican II, pp.70-84 B. Brend, Islamic Art, pp.96-106 Th., Nov.9 Tu., Nov.14 Th., Nov.16 Midterm examination Film: Cairo: 1001 Years of Art and Architecture Late Mamluk Architecture 3
PAPER DUE Pelican II, pp.86-96 S. Humphreys, The Expressive Intent of the Mamluk Architecture of Cairo Tu., Nov.21 The Maghrib under the Hafsids, Marinids, Nasrids and Sadis Pelican II, pp.114-31, 251-62 J. Dickie, The Palace of the Alhambra, in Al-Andalus, pp.135-51 D.F. Ruggles, The Gardens of the Alhambra and the Concept of the Garden in Islamic Society, ibid., pp.163-71 Th., Nov.23 Thanksgiving holiday 4
Tu., Nov.28 Timurid and Uzbek Architecture in Iran and Central Asia Pelican II, pp.37-54, 199-207 R. Pinder-Wilson, Timurid Architecture, in The Cambridge History of Iran (Vol.6), pp.728-58 Th., Nov.30 Early Ottoman Architecture Pelican II, pp.132-48 G. Goodwin, A History of Ottoman Architecture, pp.15-141 S. Vryonis, Byzantine Constantinople and Ottoman Istanbul Tu., Dec.5 Classical Ottoman Architecture Pelican II, pp.213-27 D. Kuban, Architecture of the Ottoman Period, in The Art and Architecture of Turkey, pp.137-69 Th., Dec.7 Mughal Architecture in India Pelican II, pp.149-60, 267-78 Ebba Koch, Mughal Architecture, pp.10-136 L. Golombek, From Tamerlane to the Taj Mahal Tu., Dec.12 Safavid Isfahan Film by Oleg Grabar: The Isfahan of Shah Abbas Pelican II, pp.183-212 R. D. McChesney, Four Sources on Shah Abbas s Building of Isfahan Th., Dec.14 Safavid Architecture (Guest lecturer Prof. David Roxburgh) R. Hillenbrand, Safavid Architecture, in The Cambridge History of Iran, vol.6, pp.759-842 O. Grabar, Isfahan as a Mirror of Persian Architecture Tu., Dec.19 Conclusion: The Legacies of Islamic Architecture in the 18 th and 19 th Centuries General review for final examination (to be rescheduled in reading period) 5
Pelican II, pp.247-50, 303-14 6
Bibliography All readings are available on reserve at the Fine Arts Library. Readings marked with an asterisk are to be found in special binders kept on closed reserve at the Circulation Desk of the Fine Arts Library. Akurgal, Ekrem, ed. The Art and Architecture of Turkey. New York: Rizzoli, 1980. [open reserves] Al-Sayyad, Nezar. Cities and Caliphs: On the Genesis of Arab Muslim Urbanism. New York: Greenwood, 1991. [open reserves] *Blair, Sheila. The Mongol Capital of Sultaniyya: The Imperial. Iran 26 (1986): 139-51. Blair, Sheila S. and Jonathan Bloom. The Art and Architecture of Islam 1250-1800. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995. [closed] *Bloom, Jonathan. The Origins of Fatimid Art. Muqarnas III (1985): 30-38. Brend, Barbara. Islamic Art. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1991. [open] Dodds, Jerrilyn, ed. Al-Andalus: The Art of Islamic Spain. New York: Abrams, 1992. [open] Ettinghausen, Richard, and Oleg Grabar. The Art and Architecture of Islam 650-1200. New York: Penguin, 1987. [open] *Golombek, Lisa. From Tamerlane to the Taj Mahal. In Essays in Art and Architecture in Honor of Katharina Otto-Dorn. Ed. by Abbas Daneshvari. Malibu: Undena Publishers, 1981, 43-50. Goodwin, Godfrey. A History of Ottoman Architecture. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1987, c.1971. [open] Grabar, Oleg. The Formation of Islamic Art. Revised and expanded ed. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987. [open] *Grabar, Oleg. The Umayyad Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem. Ars Orientalis, 3 (1959): 33-62. *Grabar, Oleg. Isfahan as a Mirror of Persian Architecture. In Highlights of Persian Art. Ed. by Richard Ettinghausen and Ehsan Yarshater. Delmar, NY : Caravan Books, 1983, 213-241. 7
*Hillenbrand, Robert. Islamic Art at the Crossroads: East versus West at Mshatta. Essays in Islamic Art and Architecture in Honor of Katharina Otto Dorn. Ed. by Abbas Daneshvari. Malibu: Undena Publishers, 1981, 63-86. *Humphreys, R. Stephen. The Expressive Intent of the Mamluk Architecture of Cairo: a Preliminary Essay. Studia Islamica 36 (1972): 69-119. Jackson, Peter and Laurence Lockhart, eds. The Cambridge History of Iran. Vol.6: The Timurid and Safavid periods. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. [closed] Koch, Ebba. Mughal Architecture: An Outline of its History and Development (1526-1858). Munich: Prestel, 1991. [open] *Kuban, Dogan. The Style of Sinan s Domed Structures. Muqarnas IV (1987): 72-97. *McChesney, R.D. Four Sources on Shah Abbas s Building of Isfahan. Muqarnas V (1988): 103-134. Richards, D. H., ed. Islamic Civilisation 950-1150. London: Faber, 1973. [closed] *Rogers, J.M. Samarra: A Study in Medieval Town Planning. In The Islamic City. Ed. by A. H. Hourani and S. M. Stern. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1970, 119-55. Rosen-Ayalon, M. The Early Islamic Monuments of al-haram al-sharif: An Iconographic Study. Jerusalem: Institute of Archaeology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1989. [closed] *Tabbaa, Yasser. Propagation of Jihad under Nur al-din. In The Meeting of Two Worlds: Cultural Exchange Between East and West During the Period of the Crusades. Ed. by V. P. Goss. Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, 1986, 223-40. *Vryonis, Speros Jr. Byzantine Constantinople and Ottoman Istanbul: Evolution in a Millennial Imperial Iconography, in The Ottoman City and its Parts: Urban Structure and Social Order. Ed. by Irene A. Bierman, Rifaat A. Abou-El-Haj, and Donald Preziosi. New Rochelle, N.Y.: A.D. Caratzas, 1991, 13-52. *Welch, Anthony. Architectural Patronage and the Past: The Tughluq Sultans of India. Muqarnas X (1993): 311-22. *Wendell, Charles. Baghdad, Imago mundi and other Foundation Lore. IJMES 2 (1971): 99-128. 8