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The course traces the development of manuscript illustration in Islamic lands up to the year 1258. In its first part, the question of iconoclasm within Islam will be discussed, as will be the opposing …
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In the course, the evidence for a fresh start of painting in Iran after the Mongol invasion is reviewed, as well as the process of refinement and attrition which followed and which, over the 14th …
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The impact of the Mongol conquest on Islamic art is examined in terms of the division of the Islamic world into eastern and western spheres of culture as well as the increased influence of Chinese …
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This course begins with the Iranian engage literature of the 60s and 70s and follows the writers of this era to exile in various parts of the globe after the 1979 revolution. It goes on to examines …
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This course investigates the three Persian empires of pre-Islamic Iran, the Achaemenids (559-330 B.C.E.), the Parthians (247 B.C.E. – 224 C.E.) and the Sasanians (224-651 C.E.). On the basis of the …
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