CMS241
The Art of Islam
Subject code
CMS
Course Number
241
Department(s)
Instructor(s)
E. Woodward
Course Long Title
The Art of Islam
Cross Listed Courses
Description
Art of the Islamic world from its roots in the ancient Near East to the flowering of Safavid Persia and Mughal India in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. Developments are traced through architecture, painting, ceramics, textiles, and metalwork. Consideration is given to the continuity of the Near Eastern artistic tradition and Islamic art in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Modes of Inquiry
Analysis and Critique [AC], Historical and Social Inquiry [HS]
Writing Credit
No writing designation
Departmental Course Attributes - Major/Minor Requirements
(AVC: Non-Western Canon), (AVC: Premodern)
INDS Program Relationship
IDCM - CMS Program
GEC This Course Belongs To
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