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4.619 Historiography of Islamic Architecture | Architecture

This seminar offers a critical review of scholarship on Islamic architecture through close reading of scholarly texts, museum exhibitions, and architectural projects. It also tackles methodological and historiographical questions about the field's formation, genealogy, recent expansion, and its evolving historical and theoretical contours.

Keywords:: Religious Architecture, art, Islamic, historiography, Middle Eastern History, Architectural Design, history, Historiography, design, Islam, museum, Architectural History and Criticism, architecture

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Arts / Architecture

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Material Type:: Online Course
Date Added to MERLOT:: May 12, 2016
Date Modified in MERLOT:: May 12, 2016
Author:: Rabbat, Nasser
Submitter:: Barbra Bied Sperling

Primary Audience:: Graduate School
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Language:: English
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