LIVING BEAUTY IN ISLAM (RS-625)

Yahya M. Michot This richly illustrated, twelve week long course looks into the importance of beauty in Islamic life, in reference to the Prophetic tradition « God is Beautiful and He loves beauty » (see the calligraphy, above). The way in which Muslims beautified their everyday life and surroundings, especially in the Ottoman empire, will be approached in relation to the following places: the city, the palace, the mosque, the house, the bath, the school, the bazaar, the workshop, the road, the cemetery, and the museum. Ways to make Muslim modern life an art de vivre both contemporary and faithful to the great Islamic tradition will be explored. Class will meet twice a week for 12 weeks: Mondays and Wednesdays, 6 - 7:45 p.m., beginning Wednesday January 18, 2017. Each of these twelve classes will be divided in two sessions: A) Lecture; B) Discussion of the required readings. Session B of the last class will be a guided tour of the Islamic Art Department of the Metropolitan Museum, New York (Wednesday April 19). Course Objectives 1) Students should be able to find their way around in the major reference works on Islamic arts, aesthetics, and culture. 2) They are expected to gain an acquaintance with the ways the traditional Islamic search for beauty developed, the historical and spiritual contexts in which it evolved, the key places and aspects of everyday life in which it manifested itself. 3) In reference to traditional Islamic arts and ways of life, they should also be able to have an informed opinion on modern needs, evolutions and debates concerning living beauty in Islam. 4) They should be able to benefit from the methodological approach adopted in these classes and apply them for their own studies and/or research projects and lifestyle. Course Requirements 1) It is strongly recommended that the students arrive at the first class already having a general knowledge about the religion of Islam, as well as about the history and geography of Muslim societies. They should also be able to find their way around in the major reference tools for Islamic Studies (Encyclopaedia of Islam, Index Islamicus…). 2) Attendance in class and participation in the Metropolitan Museum tour are required. If you know that you will be unable to attend a session please inform the professor in advance. Missing two classes or the Metropolitan Museum tour will result in an automatic lowering of your final grade by 30%. Missing three or more classes will result in automatic failure of the course. 3) For each class of weeks 2-12, students shall submit a summary of some of the reading assignments and be ready to speak about them in class. Each student can skip any two weeks during that time for a total of 10 submissions. Here are the guidelines for these summaries: - Approximately 2 pages (3 pages maximum) - One modern study must be used in each summary - Students must make copies of their summaries for all students in the class 4) A final research paper and a viva voce examination, as described below.

The final grade will be based upon the following: 1) Weekly summaries (25%) and class participation (25%). 2) A final research paper of approximately 10 pages* on a topic relating to the search for beauty in past or present Islamic arts and everyday life. The topic should be chosen by the end of class VI in consultation with the Professor. This paper will be due by the end of class XII (30%). 3) A final viva voce exam discussing the course and its reading assignments, with an emphasis on the final research paper submitted (20%). * All written work is to conform to the seminary writing guidelines, which can be found online at: http://www.hartsem.edu/student/forms/researchpaperguide.pdf. It must use the transliteration system given in class I. It must be run through a grammar and spell-check program or read by the writing tutor if necessary before submission. The Hartford Seminary Grading Guidelines will be the standard of evaluation for work in the course. IMPORTANT: Plagiarism, the failure to give proper credit for the words and ideas of another person, whether published or unpublished, is strictly prohibited. All written material submitted by students must be their own original work; where the words and ideas of others are used they must be acknowledged. Credit will not be given for work containing plagiarism, and plagiarism will lead to failure of a course. Please see the Hartford Seminary Catalogue for the full plagiarism policy. General references ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF ISLAM, INDEX ISLAMICUS… ENDRESS, Gerhard, Islam: An Historical Introduction. Translated by Carole HILLENBRAND (Edinburgh: Edinburgh

University Press, 2002 – 2d ed.), viii & 301 p., ISBN 0-­‐7486-­‐1620-­‐9. DS35.6 .E5313 2004 RUTHVEN, Malise, with Azim NANJI, Historical Atlas of the Islamic World (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), 208 p.,

0-­‐19-­‐860997-­‐3. G1786 .S1 R9 2004 HEWER, Christopher, Understanding Islam: The first ten steps (London: SCM Press, 2006), xi & 244 p. 0334-04032-9. INSOLL, Timothy, The Archaeology of Islam (Oxford: Blackwell, ‘Social Archaeology’, 1999), xiv & 274 p., ISBN 0-631-

20115-7. MILWRIGHT, Marcus, An Introduction to Islamic Archaeology (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2010), xii & 260 p.,

ISBN 978-0-7486-2311-2. GRABAR, Oleg, The Formation of Islamic Art (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1973), xix & 233 & 80 p., ISBN

0300015054. HILLENBRAND, Robert, Islamic Art and Architecture. 270 illustrations, 80 in colour (London: Thames and Hudson, 1999),

288 p., ISBN 0-500-20305-9. —, Islamic Architecture: Form, function and meaning (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2000), xxvi & 664 p., ISBN

0-7486-1379-X. HOAG, John D., Islamic Architecture (New York: Rizzoli International Publications, ‘History of World Architecture’,

1987), 203 p., ISBN 0-8478-0796-7. IRWIN, Robert, Islamic Art in Context. Art, Architecture, and the Literary World (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc.,

‘Perspectives,’ 1997), 272 p., ISBN 0-8109-2710-1. FAIRCHILD RUGGLES, D., Islamic Art and Visual Culture. An Anthology of Sources (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011), ix &

186 p., 978-1-4051-5402-4. ELIAS, Jamal J., Aisha’s Cushion. Religious Art, Perception and Practice in Islam (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University

Press, 2012), [x] & 404 p., ISBN 978-0-674-05806-4. — Idols, icons, Iconoclam, beauty… SCOTT, Philippa, Turkish Delights (London: Thames & Hudson, 2001), 120 p., 0-500-51037-7. FLASKERUD, I., Visualizing Belief and Piety in Iranian Shiism (London–New York: Continuum, 2010), xii & 299 p., ISBN

978-1-4411-4907-7. PUERTA VÍLCHEZ, José Miguel, Historia del Pensamiento Estético Arabe. Al-Andalous y la Estetica Arabe Clasica (Madrid:

Akal, ‘Coleccion Arte y estetica, 52,’ 1997), 913 p., ISBN 84-460-0737-1.

CLASS SCHEDULE

Class I. A: Wednesday Jan. 18. B: Monday Jan. 23. INTRODUCTION General references: ABOU EL FADL, Khaled, Conference of the Books: The Search for Beauty in Islam (Lanham: University Press of

America, 2001), xx & 419 p., ISBN 0761819495. BP163 .A258 2001 BEHRENS-ABOUSEIF, D., Beauty in Arabic Culture (Princeton: Markus Wiener Publishers, ‘Princeton Series on the

Middle East,’ 1998), 220 p., ISBN 1-55876-199-3. BURCKHARDT, T., Art of Islam. Language and Meaning (Bloomington: World Wisdom, 2009), 248 p., ISBN 978-1-

933316-65-9. N6260 .B8713 2009 LEAMAN, O., Islamic Aesthetics: An Introduction (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2004), viii & 211 p.,

ISBN 0-268-03370-6. NASR, S. H., Islamic Art and Spirituality (Ipswich: Golgonooza Press, 1987), x & 213 p., ISBN 0-903880-35-0. CHITTICK, William C. (ed.), The Inner Journey. Views from the Islamic Tradition (Sandpoint: Morning Light Press,

2007), xix & 318 p., 1-59675-016-2. — Chapter 3: Art and Beauty, p. 55-98. DE GUISE, Lucien, Beyond Orientalism. How the West was Won over by Islamic Art (Kuala Lumpur: Islamic Arts

Museum Malaysia, 2008), 239 p., 978-983-43211-7-8. RODINSON, Maxime, Europe and the Mystique of Islam, Translated by Roger VEINUS (London: Tauris, 1988), xv & 163

p., ISBN 1-85043-104-3. MARGULIES, Roni, The Terrible Turk - Batı’nın Gördüğü “Türk” (Istanbul: Everest Yayınları, 2016), 164 p., 978-605-

141-999-2. EDWARDS, Holly, Noble Dreams, Wicked Pleasures: Orientalism in America, 1870-1930. With essays by Brian T.

ALLEN, Steven C. CATON, Zeynep ÇELIK, and Oleg GRABAR (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000), xiv & 242 p., ISBN 0-691-05004-X.

HODGSON, Barbara, Dreaming of East. Western Women and the Exotic Allure of the Orient (Vancouver - Toronto, Berkeley: Greystone Books, 2005), [viii] & 184 p., 1-55365-204-5.

ACKERMAN, Gerald M., American Orientalists (Paris: ACR Editions, 2010), ISBN 2867700787. NANCE, Susan, How the Arabian Nights Inspired the American Dream, 1790-1935 (Chapel Hill: The University of

North Carolina Press, 2009), xiii & 344 p., 978-14696-1495-3. GRAFTON, Carol Belanger (ed.), 120 Great Orientalist Paintings. CD-ROM & Book (Mineola, New York: Dover

Publications, 2009), 64 p., 978-0-486-99038-5. MELLINS, Thomas, & ALBRECHT, Donald (eds.), Doris Duke’s Shangri La. A House in Paradise. Architecture,

Landscape and Art (New York: Skira Rizzoli, 2012), 216 p., 978-0-8478-3895-0. RYAN, James Anthony, Frederic Church’s Olana. Architecture and Landscape as Art. Introduction by KELLY, Franklin

( Hensonville: Black-Dome, 2011), 103 p., 978-188378928-2. http://www.policymic.com/articles/71193/5-historical-monuments-have-been-destroyed-forever-during-syria-s-civil-war

Reading assignments: a. NASR, S. H., Islamic Art and Spirituality (Ipswich: Golgonooza Press, 1987), x & 213 p., ISBN 0-903880-35-0. —

P. 195-202: Postscript: The Spiritual Message of Islamic Art. b. BEHRENS-ABOUSEIF, D., Beauty in Arabic Culture (Princeton: Markus Wiener Publishers, ‘Princeton Series on the

Middle East,’ 1998), 220 p., ISBN 1-55876-199-3. — P. 124-148: The Significance of Artistic Beauty. The Decorative Themes.

c. MICHOT, Y., The Aesthetics of a Theologian: Ibn Taymiyya on Arts and Beauty (From a lecture in London, 16 June 2004. Unpublished). — P. 1-3: Idolatry and Iconoclasm. Loving Beauty (jamâl).

d. ABOU EL FADL, Khaled, Conference of the Books: The Search for Beauty in Islam (Lanham: University Press of America, 2001), xx & 419 p., ISBN 0761819495. — P. 113-115: The Search for Beauty.

Class II. A: Wednesday Jan. 25. B: Monday Jan. 30. THE CITY

General references: EATON, Gai, King of the Castle. Choice and Responsibility in the Modern World (London: The Bodley Head, 1977), 219

p., ISBN 0-370-30062-9. P. 23-42: I. Unreal Cities. LEAMAN, Oliver, Controversies in Contemporary Islam (London & New York: Routledge, 2014), ix & 227 p., 978-0-

415-67613-7. Chapter 4: Islamic design, civilization and the city, p. 43-56. VORDERSTRASSE, Tasha & TREPTOW, Tanya (eds), A Cosmopolitan City. Muslims, Christians and Jews in Old Cairo

(Chicago: The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, “Oriental Institute Museum Publications, 38,” 2015), 232 p., 978-1-61491-026-8.

WARNER, Nicholas, The True Description of Cairo. A Sixteenth-Century Venetian View, 3 vols. (London: The Arcadian Library - Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006).

RAYMOND, André (ed.), Cairo, City of History. Translated by Willard WOOD (Harvard University Press, 2000), 436 p. ISBN 0-674-00316-0.

—, Le Caire (Paris: Citadelles & Mazenod, ‘L’art et les grandes civilisations. Les grandes cités,’ 2000), 496 p., ISBN 2-85088-152-X.

DEGEORGE, Gérard, Damascus (Random House Inc., 2005), 320 p., ISBN: 2080304569. RABY, Julian, JOHNS, Jeremy (eds), Bayt al-Maqdis: ‘Abd al-Malik’s Jerusalem (Oxford: Oxford University Press,

‘Oxford Studies in Islamic Art, IX, part 1’, 1992), viii & 162 p., ISBN 0-19-728017-X. JOHNS, Jeremy (ed.), Bayt al-Maqdis: Jerusalem and Early Islam (Oxford: Oxford University Press, ‘Oxford Studies in

Islamic Art, IX, part 2’, 1999), 403 p., ISBN 0-19-728018-8. MYRES, David, in S. AULD & R. HILLENBRAND (eds.) Ottoman Jerusalem. The Living city: 1517-1917. Architectural

Survey by Yusuf NATSHEH. 2 vols. (London: Altajir World of Islam Trust, 2000). ROBINSON, Chase F. (ed.), A Medieval Islamic City Reconsidered. An Interdisciplinary Approach to Samarra (Oxford:

Oxford University Press, ‘Oxford Studies in Islamic Art, XIV’, 2001), 207 p., ISBN 0-19-728024-2. AND, Metin, 16. Yüzyılda İstanbul: Kent - Saray - Günlük Yaşam) (Istanbul: Yapı Kredi Kültür Sanat Yayıncılık Ticaret

ve Sanayi A. Ş., « Yapı Kredi Yayınları - 3245 Sanat - 170 », 2009), 315 p., 978-975-08-1832-5. KIRICHENKO, Oxana (ed.), Bukhara, An Oriental Gem (Tashkent: Publishing & Printing Concern “Sharq,” 1997), 256 p. IŞIN, Ekrem, Everyday Life in Istanbul. Social Historical Essays on People, Culture and Spatial Relations. Translated by

Virginia Taylor SAÇLIOĞLU (Istanbul: Yapı Kredi Yayınları, 3rd ed., 2008), 363 p., ISBN 978-975-08-0008-7. Especially Ch. 2: Modernization and Everyday Life in the 19th Century, p. 73-103.

LAPIDUS, Ira, Muslim Cities in the later Middle Ages (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984), xvi & 208 p., ISBN 0-521-27762-0.

GRABAR, O., Cities and citizens. The growth and culture of urban Islam, in B. Lewis (ed.), The World of Islam, p. 89-116. DS36.85 .I75 1992

Reading assignments: a. BURCKHARDT, T., Art of Islam. Language and Meaning (Bloomington: World Wisdom, 2009), 248 p., ISBN 978-1-

933316-65-9. — P. 199-224: Chapter VIII: The City. b. GRABAR, Oleg, The Formation of Islamic Art (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1973), xix & 233 & 80 p., ISBN

0300015054. — P. 179-187: The Art of the City. c. O’MEARA, Simon, A  Legal  Aesthetic  of  Medieval  and  Pre-­Modern  Arab-­Muslim  Architectural  Space,   in  Journal  of  Arabic  and  Islamic  Studies,  9  (2009).  —  P.  1-­17.  

d.   FATHY, Hassan, Architecture for the Poor. An Experiment in Rural Egypt (Chicago - London: The University of Chicago Press, 1976), xviii & 348 p., ISBN 0-226-23916-0 — P. 19-27: Architectural Character - The Process of Decision Making - Tradition’s Role.

e.  IBN  BAṬṬÛṬA, Riḥla - Journeys. — P. 1-2: Cairo. Class III. A: Wednesday Feb. 1. B: Monday Feb. 6. THE PALACE

General references: GRABAR, Oleg, The Formation of Islamic Art (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1973), xix & 233 & 80 p., ISBN

0300015054. — P. 141-178: The Art of the Court. ALMAGRO Martin, CABALLERO Luis, ZOZAYA Juan, ALMAGRO Antonio, Qusayr ‘Amra: Residencia y banos omeyas en

el desierto de Jordania (Madrid: Instituto Hispano-Arabe de Cultura, 1975), 196 & 21 p., ISBN 84-500-6267-2. STIERLIN Anne & STIERLIN Henri, Alhambra (Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 2001), 221 p., ISBN 2-7433-0422-7. AL-SUYÛṬÎ, Jalâl al-Dîn (d. 911/1505), What the Notables have narrated about not going to the Rulers. Studied and

edited by Abû ‘Alî Taha BUSARÎH. Introduced by ‘AbdulQâdir AL-ARNA’ÛT. Translated by ‘AbdulHaq AL-ASHANTI (Jamiah Media, 1431/2010), 154 p., 978-0-9567281-0-4.

BARAKAT, Heba, Beyond Boundaries. Tents of the Islamic World (Kuala Lumpur: Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia, 2003), 134 p., 983-40845-1-X.

GÜNAY, Reha, Sinan, The Architect and his Works (Istanbul: Yapı-Endüstri Merkezi A. Ş., « Yem Yayın, 46 », 8th edition, 2014), 236 p., 975-7438-67-7.

ATASOY, Nurhan, A Garden for the Sultan. Gardens and flowers in the Ottoman culture (Istanbul: Kitap Yayınevi, 2011), 368 p., ISBN 978-975-7710-10-3.

HASSON, R., Court Amusements: Games, Sport and Pleasures in Islamic Art (Jerusalem: The L. A. Mayer Museum for Islamic Art, 2006).

Reading assignments: a. IRWIN, Robert, Islamic Art in Context. Art, Architecture, and the Literary World (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc.,

‘Perspectives,’ 1997), 272 p., ISBN 0-8109-2710-1. — P. 103-131: V. Palace Life. b. SÂÎ MUSTAFA ÇELEBI, Book of Buildings. Tezkiretü’l-Bünyan and Tezkiretü’l-Ebniye (Memoirs of Sinan the

Architect). Translation from Original script into modern Turkish by H. DEVELI. Translation from modern Turkish into English by P. M. IŞIN. Introduction by D. KUBAN (Istanbul: Koçbank, 2002), 192 p., ISBN 975-296-017-0. — P. 29-121: Tezkiretü’l-Bünyan, Tezkiretü’l-Ebniye.

Class IV. A: Wednesday Feb. 8. B: Monday Feb. 13. THE MOSQUE

General references: ERKOÇU, Ergün & BUĞDACI, Cıhan, The Mosque. Political, Architectural and Social Transformations (Rotterdam: NAi

Publishers, 2009), 193 p., ISBN 978-90-5662-691-4. HOLOD Renata, KHAN Hasan-Uddin. The Contemporary Mosque. Architects, Clients and Designs since the 1950s. With

the assistance of Kimberly MIMS (New York: Rizzoli, 1997), 288 p., ISBN 0-8478-2043-2. BARAKAT, Heba Nayel, Mosques of the United States of America. The Dar al-Islam Mosque and Complex, Abiquiu, New

Mexico (Kuala Lumpur: Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia, 2014), 79 p., 978-983-2591-07-8. HILLENBRAND, Robert, The Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque. A landmark of modern Islamic architecture (Abu Dhabi:

Shawati’ & Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture & Heritage, 2012), 220 p., 978-9948161127.

Reading assignments: a. AL-BAYATI, Basil, The City and the Mosque (Oxford: aarp, 1984), ISBN 0-906468-08-6, 70 p. b. JOHNS, Jeremy, in JOHNS, J. (ed.), Bayt al-Maqdis: Jerusalem and Early Islam. — P. 59-112: The ‘House of the

Prophet’ and the Concept of the Mosque. c. RAMADAN, Tariq, in ERKOÇU, Ergün & BUĞDACI, Cıhan, The Mosque. Political, Architectural and Social

Transformations (Rotterdam: NAi Publishers, 2009), 193 p., ISBN 978-90-5662-691-4. — P. 53-55: Back to First Principles.

Class V. A: Wednesday Feb. 15. B: Wednesday Feb. 22. THE HOUSE

General references: GUTHRIE, Sh., Arab Social Life in the Middle Ages. An Illustrated Study (London: Saqi Books, 1995). GUAITA, Ovidio, The Art of Living. Residential Architecture in the Islamic World (Kuala Lumpur: Islamic Arts Museum

Malaysia, 2001), 172 p., 983-40385-1-8. SPAHIC, Omer, The Origins and Functions of Islamic Domestic Courtyards (Kuala Lumpur: International Islamic

University Malaysia Press, 2008), [vii] & 332 p., 983-3855-20-9. MOURAD, Kenize (Preface), Living in Istanbul (Paris: Flammarion, 1994). ALLIATA, Vittoria, Le Case des Paradiso. Mito, simboli e vita quotidiana nel paese delle mille e una notte (Milan:

Arnoldo Mondadori, 1983), 255 p. CROUTIER, Alev Lytle, Harem. The World Behind the Veil (New York: Abbeville Press, 1989), 224 p., ISBN 1-55859-

159-1. MERNISSI, Fatema, Scheherazade Goes West. Different Cultures, Different Harems (New York: Washington Square

Press, 2001), ix & 228 p., 0-7434-1242-7. SOUDAVAR DIBA Layla, BAHNAM Jamshid, AGHDASHLU Aydin, Iranian Wedding Contracts of the Nineteenth and

Twentieth Centuries. Translated by COOPER Roger, CHITTICK William, WILSON P. (Tehran: Negarestan Museum, 1976), 100 p.

OGRIN, Dusan, The World Heritage of Gardens (London: Thames and Hudson, 1993), 400 p., ISBN 0-500-23666-6. P. 237-275: Islam, Gardens of Four Rivers; Iberia, the Meeting of Islam and the European Tradition.

CURRIM, Mumtaz (ed.), Jannat. Paradise in Islamic Art (Mumbay: The Marg Foundation, 2012), 144 p., 978-81-

921106-2-2. CLARK, Emma, The Art of the Islamic Garden (Ramsbury: The Crowood Press Ltd, 2010), 208 p., 978-1-84797-204-0. BARAKAT, Heba Nayel, Between Eden & Earth. Gardens of the Islamic World. Photographs by Ovidio GUAITA (Kuala

Lumpur: Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia, 2003), 224 p., 983-40845-2-8. HOBHOUSE, Penelope, Gardens of Persia, Edited by E. HUNNINGHER. Photography by J. HARPUR (London: Cassell

Illustrated, 2003), 192 p., ISBN 1-84403-079-2.

Reading assignments: a. LEAMAN, O., Islamic Aesthetics: An Introduction (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2004), viii & 211 p.,

ISBN 0-268-03370-6. — P. 121-140: Home and Garden. b. TRHULJ, S. (ed.), Svrzina Kuca - Svrzo’s House (Sarajevo: Muzej Sarajeva, 2001), 144 p., ISBN 9958-9250-0-1. — P.

37-98: Svrzo’s House (Origins and Development), Value of Svrzo’s House, The Mahala House, A Way of Life, The Aesthetic Value of Svrzo’s House.

c. BURCKHARDT, T., Art of Islam. Language and Meaning (Bloomington: World Wisdom, 2009), 248 p., ISBN 978-1-933316-65-9. — P. 102-105: Chapter V, 5: The Art of Apparel.

d. WORTLEY MONTAGU, Mary (Lady), The Turkish Embassy Letters. Introduced by Anita DESAI. Text edited and annotated by Malcolm JACK (London: Virago Press, 2005), xlii & 190 p., ISBN 1-85381-679-5. — P. 113-120: Letter XLI.

Class VI. A: Monday Feb. 27. B: Wednesday March 1. THE HAMMAM

General references: BOGGS, Richard, Hammaming in the Sham: A Journey through the Turkish Baths of Damascus, Aleppo and Beyond

(Reading: Garnet Publishing, 2011), xii & 180 p., ISBN 978-1859642283. ŞENTÜRK, Şennur (ed.), Eski Hamam, Eski Tas (Istanbul: Yapı Kredi Kültür Sanat Yayıncılık, 2010), 335 p. LEBEAU, Richard, Les parfums d'Orient. Alep, échelle du Levant. Photographies de Michel LE LOUARN. Parfums

composés par Jean-Claude ELLENA (Paris: Éditions du Garde-Temps, 2002), 96 p., ISBN 2-913545-16-5.

Reading assignments: a. YILMAZKAYA, O., Turkish Baths. A Light onto a Tradition and Culture. A Guide to the Historic Turkish Baths of

Istanbul (Istanbul: Çitlembik, 2006), 144 p., ISBN 975-6663-80-4. — P. 9-57: Bath Culture: Past and Present. b. AL-GHAZÂLÎ, Iḥyâ’ ‘ulûm al-dîn III: Cleanliness. Trans. Fazlul KARIM (Karachi: Darul Ishaat). On www.islam

awakened.com/DurusulQuran/as-sidq/clean.htm. c. BOUHDIBA, Abdelwahab, Sexuality in Islam. Translated from the French by A. SHERIDAN (London - Boston:

Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1985), viii & 288 p., ISBN 0710096089. — P. 88-100: Chapter VIII: The Sexual and the sacral.

Class VII. A: Monday March 6. B: Wednesday March 8. THE SCHOOL

General references: TRIKI Hamid, DOVIFAT Alain, Medersa de Marrakech (Aix-en-Provence: Édisud, 1999), 192 p., ISBN 2-7449-0099-0. GOLVIN, Lucien, La Madrasa médiévale (Aix-en-Provence: Édisud, 1995), 335 p., ISBN 2-85744-818-X LITTLE, Donald Presgrave, Notes on Mamluk Madrasahs, in Mamlûk Studies Review, VI (Chicago: Medoc, The

University of Chicago, 2002), p. 9-20. SCHIMMEL, Annemarie, Calligraphy and Islamic Culture (New York - London: New York University Press, 1984), xiv

& 265 p., ISBN 0-8147-7830-5. GEORGE, Alain, The Rise of Islamic Calligraphy (London: Saqi, 2010), 236 p., 978-0-86356-673-8. MCWILLIAMS, Mary & ROXBURGH, David J., Traces of the Calligrapher. Islamic Calligraphy in Practice, c. 1600-1900

(Houston: The Museum of Fine Arts & New Haven - London: Yale University Press, 2007), xii & 96 p., 978-0-300-12632-7.

ZOGHBI, Pascal & KARL, Don, Arabic Graffiti (Berlin: From Here to Fame, 3rd revised ed., 2013), 208 p., 978-3-937946-45-0.

EPS51 - WITTNER, Ben & THOMA, Sascha (eds.), Arabesque 2. Graphic Design from the Arab World and Persia (Berlin: Gestalten, 2011), 208 p., 978-3-89955-330-7.

HAMDY, Basma & KARL, Don, Walls of Freedom. Street Art of the Egyptian Revolution. Foreword by Ahdaf SOUEIF (Berlin: From Here to Fame, 2014), 268 p., 978-3-937946-47-4.

Reading assignments: a. NADWI, Mohammad Akram, Madrasah Life: A student’s day at Nadwat al-‘Ulamâ’. Foreword by James PISCATORI

(London: Turath Publishing, 1428/2007), xvii & 103 p., ISBN 0-9547380-5-5. — P. 1-63. b. ROBERTSON, E., Muḥammad Ibn ‘Abd ar-Raḥmân on Calligraphy, in Studia Semitica et Orientalia by Seven members

of Glasgow University Oriental Society (Glasgow: MacLehose, Jackson and Co., 1920), p. 57-83. — P. 57-83. Class VIII. A: Monday March 13. B: Wednesday March 15. THE BAZAAR

General references: WEISS, W. M., The Bazaar. Markets and Merchants of the Islamic World. Photographs by K.-M. WESTERMANN. Plans

by E. BALIC (London: Thames & Hudson, 1998), 256 p., ISBN 0-500-01839-1. STILT, Kristen, Islamic Law in Action. Authority, Discretion, and Everyday Experiences in Mamluk Egypt (Oxford:

Oxford University Press, 2011), xv & 238 p., ISBN 978-0-19-960243-8. ‘Abd al-Raḥmān b. Naṣr al-Shayzarī, The Book of the Islamic Market Inspector, Nihāyat al-Rutba fi Ṭalab al-Ḥisba (The

Utmost Authority in the Pursuit of Ḥisba). Translated with an Introduction and Notes by R. P. Buckley (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999). HF5475.I74 S54 1999

Reading assignments: a. WEISS, W. M., The Bazaar. Markets and Merchants of the Islamic World. Photographs by K.-M. WESTERMANN. Plans

by E. BALIC (London: Thames & Hudson, 1998), 256 p., ISBN 0-500-01839-1. — P. 37-61: Holy Place and Market Place: How the Bazaar works.

b. IBN KHALDŪN, The Muqaddimah. An Introduction to History. Translated and Introduced by Franz ROSENTHAL. Abridged and edited by N. J. DAWOOD. With a new introduction by Bruce B. LAWRENCE (Princeton - Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2005), xliv & 465 p. — Pages 297-332: Chapter 5: On the various aspects of making a living, such as profit and the crafts… (D16.7 .I24132 2005)

Class IX. A: Monday March 20. B: Wednesday March 22. THE WORKSHOP

General references: AZZAM, Khaled (ed.), Arts & Crafts of the Islamic Lands. Principles - Materials - Practice. Educational coordinator

Ririko SUZUKI (New York: Thames & Hudson, 2013), 288 p., ISBN 978-0-500-51702-4. BROUG, Eric, Islamic Geometric Design (New York: Thames & Hudson, 2013), 256 p., ISBN 978-0-500-51695-9. NASR, S. H., Islamic Art and Spirituality. P. 37-63. Chapter III: The Principle of Unity and the Sacred Architecture of

Islam (Ipswich: Golgonooza Press, 1987), x & 213 p., ISBN 0-903880-35-0. CASTÉRA, Jean-Marc, Arabesques. Art décoratif du Maroc. Photographies de Fr. PEURIOT & Ph. PLOQUIN (Paris, ACR,

1996), 480 p., ISBN 2-86770-096-5. PACCARD, André, Le Maroc et l’artisanat traditionnel islamique dans l’architecture, 2 vols. (Annecy: Éditions Atelier

74, 4e éd., 1983), 516 & 583 p., 2-86-486-009-0 & 2-86-486-010-4. LIVIO, Mario, The Golden Ratio. The Story of Phi, the World’s Most Astonishing Number (New York: Broadway Books,

2002), x & 294 p., 0-7679-0816-3. SÖNMEZ, Serap Ekizler, Mimar Sinan Cami Minberlerinde Beşgen Geometrik Desenler (Istanbul: İstanbul Tasarım

Yayınları, 2016), 215 p., 978-605-83875-0-8. Reading assignments: a. CRITCHLOW Keith, Introduction to Geometry, in AZZAM Khaled (ed.), Arts & Crafts of the Islamic Lands. — P. 13-

19. b. MARCHANT Paul, Order in Nature, in AZZAM Khaled (ed.), Arts & Crafts of the Islamic Lands. — P. 20-33. c. BROUG Eric, Islamic Geometric Design (New York: Thames & Hudson, 2013). — P. 15-35: Basic Design Principles. d. BURCKHARDT, T., Art of Islam. Language and Meaning (Bloomington: World Wisdom, 2009), 248 p., ISBN 978-1-

933316-65-9. — P. 62-85: 3. The Arabesque ; 4. The Sphere and the Cube; 5. The Alchemy of Light. Class X. A: Monday March 27. B: Wednesday March 29. THE ROAD

General references: DANKOFF, Robert & KIM, Sooyong, An Ottoman Traveller. Selections from the Book of Travels of Evliya Çelebi.

Translation and Commentary (London: Eland Publishing, 2011), xxxviii & 482 p., 978-1-906011-58-1.

EICKELMAN Dale F., PISCATORI James, Muslim Travellers. Pilgrimage, migration, and the religious imagination (Berkeley - Los Angeles: University of California Press, “Comparative Studies on Muslim Societies,” 1990), xxii & 281 p. , ISBN 0-520-07252-9.

PORTER, Venetia & SAIF, Liana (eds.), The Hajj: Collected Essays (London: The British Museum, 2013), x & 278 p., 978-086159-193-0.

MOLS, Luitgard, Verlangen naar Mekka. De hadj in honderd voorwerpen (Leiden: Rijksmuseum Volkenkunde, 2013), 239 p., 978-90-78653-43-1.

NORELL Mark, PATRY Denise Leidy, with ROSS Laura, Traveling the Silk Road. Ancient Pathway to the Modern World (New York: Sterling Signature - The American Museum of Natural History, 2011), 260 p., ISBN 978-1-4027-8137-7.

DE GUISE, Lucien, & SUTARWALA, Zahir, Spice Journeys. Taste and Trade in the Islamic World (Kuala Lumpur: Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia, 2006), 79 p., 983-40845-9-5.

ASATEKIN Gül, BRACKMAN Pascal & alii, Along ancient Trade Routes. Seljuk Caravanserais and Landscapes in Central Anatolia. Photography Georges Charlier (Rekem-Lanaken: Maasland vzw, 1996), 159 p.

EL HAJRAOUI, M. (ed.), La route de l’or. Maroc, Mauritanie, Sénégal, Mali (Rabat: Ministère de la Culture, 2003), 115 p., ISBN 9954-8314-8-7.

AL-HIJJI, Ya‘qûb Y., The Art of Dhow-building in Kuwait (Kuwait: Centre for Research and Studies on Kuwait, 2001), xii & 164 p., ISBN 978-1-900404-28-0.

DZIAMSKI, Piotr & WEISMANN, Norbert, Fatah al Khair. Oman’s Last Ghanja (Muscat: Al Roya Press & Publishing House, 2010), 140 p., ISBN 978-9948-16-251-3.

Reading assignments: a. MILWRIGHT, Marcus, An Introduction to Islamic Archaeology (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2010), xii &

260 p., ISBN 978-0-7486-2311-2. — P. 159-173: 8. Travel and Trade. b. MYRES, David, in S. AULD & R. HILLENBRAND (eds.) Ottoman Jerusalem. The Living city: 1517-1917. Architectural

Survey by Yusuf NATSHEH. 2 vols. (London: Altajir World of Islam Trust, 2000). — P. 539-581: Chapter 35: Al-‘Imara al-‘amira. The charitable Foundation of Khassaki Sultan (959/1552).

c. IBN BAṬṬÛṬA, The Travels of Ibn Battutah. Abridged, introduced and annotated by Tim MACKINTOSH-SMITH (London: Picador, 2003), xxi & 325 p., ISBN 978-0-330-41879-9. — P. 183-199: Chapter 10: Stay in Dihli.

d. VILLIERS, Alan, Sons of Sinbad. An Account of Sailing with the Arabs in their Dhows, in the Red Sea, around the Coasts of Arabia, and to Zanzibar and Tanganyika: Pearling in the Persian Gulf: and the Life of the Shipmasters, the Mariners and Merchants of Kuwait. Illustrated with Photographs and Charts by the author (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1940), xv & 429 p. — P. 195-207: X. On to Zanzibar.

Class XI. A: Monday April 3. B: Wednesday April 5. THE CEMETERY

General references: INSOLL, Timothy, The Archaeology of Islam (Oxford: Blackwell, ‘Social Archaeology’, 1999), xiv & 274 p., ISBN 0-

631-20115-7, Ch. 6: Death and Burial, p. 166-200. BACQUÉ-GRAMMONT Jean-Louis, TIBET Aksel (eds.), Cimetières et traditions funéraires dans le monde islamique, I-II -

Islam dünyasinda mezarliklar ve defin gelenekleri, I-II (Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurumu Basimevi, “Türk Tarih Kurumu Yayinlari, XXVI. Dizi - Sa. 6-6a,” 1996), xvi & 385, 265 p., ISBN 975-16-0649-7.

EL KADI Galila, BONNAMY Alain, La cité des morts. Le Caire (Sprimont - Paris: Mardaga - Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, 2001), 304 p., ISBN 2-87009-772-7.

IBN TAYMIYYA, Al-Jawâb al-bâhir fî zuwwâr al-maqâbir - The Outstanding Answer on Visiting the Graves. Translation by Ali Hassan KHAN. Edited by Abû Fâṭimah Azhar MAJOTHÎ (Fattomand Gujranwala, Pakistan: Umm-ul-Qura Publications, 1432/2011), 244 p., 978-0-9551261-4-7.

YILMAZ, Saffet, Sultanların Kabristanı, Muradiye (Bursa: Bursa Büyükşehir Belediyesi, 2015), 95 p. IBN TAYMIYYA, Ziyârat al-qubûr wa l-istinjâd bi-l-maqbûr - Visiting Graves and Invoking the Dead. Translated by Jalal

ABUARUB (Dammam, 1997), 74 p., 9960-34-379-0.

Reading assignments: a. ELDEM, E., Death in Istanbul. Death and its Rituals in Ottoman-Islamic Culture (Istanbul: Ottoman Bank Archives

and Research Centre, 2005), 300 p., 975-98125-2-5. — P. 40-60: The Ottoman Culture of Death, A Vademecum of Death: Muhtasar (1822).

b. LANE, Edward William, An account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians, written in Egypt during the Years 1833-1835. — P. 503-521: Chapter XXVIII: Death, and Funeral Rites.

c. NECIPOĞLU-KAFADAR, Gülru, Dynastic Imprints on the Cityscape: The Collective Message of Imperial Funerary Mosque Complexes in Istanbul, in BACQUÉ-GRAMMONT Jean-Louis, TIBET Aksel (eds.), Cimetières et traditions funéraires dans le monde islamique, II - Islam dünyasinda mezarliklar ve defin gelenekleri, II. — P. 23-36.

Class XII. A: Monday April 17. B: Wednesday April 19. THE MUSEUM

General references: JUNOD Benoît, KHALIL Georges, WEBER Stefan, WOLF Gerhard (eds.), Islamic Art and the Museum: Approaches to Art

and Archaeology of the Muslim World in the Twenty-First Century (London: Saqi, 2012), 374 p., ISBN 978-0-86356-413-0.

PELTRE, Christine, Les arts de l'Islam. Itinéraire d’une redécouverte (Paris: Gallimard, “Découvertes. Arts, 491,” 2006), 128 p., ISBN 2-07-030869-3.

KHUAN, Fong Peng (ed.), Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia, Volume I (Kuala Lumpur: Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia, 2003), 280 p., 983-40845-0-1.

DE GUISE, Lucien (ed.), Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia, Volume II (Kuala Lumpur: Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia, 2009), 403 p., 983-432119-2.

WELCH, Stuart Cary, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Islamic World (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1987), 164 p., ISBN 0-87099-461-1.

Reading assignments: a. AL KHEMIR, Sabiha, From Cordoba to Samarqand. Masterpieces from the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha (Paris:

Musée du Louvre Éditions, 2006). — P. 29-35: Interview with Ieoh Ming Pei: The Inspiration of Islam. b. MCWILLIAMS, Mary, in JUNOD Benoît, KHALIL Georges, WEBER Stefan, WOLF Gerhard (eds.), Islamic Art and the

Museum… — Chapter 15, p. 151-172: Subthemes and Overpaint: Exhibiting Islamic Art in American Art Museums.

c. EKHTIAR Maryam D., SOUCEK Priscilla P., CANBY Sheila R., HAIDAR Navina N. (eds.), Masterpieces from the Department of Islamic Art in The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art - New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011), xvi & 431 p., ISBN 978-1-58839-434-7. — P. 2-19: Introduction.