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 coffee-house, the road, and the cemetery. 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: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 2 - 3:45 p.m., beginning Tuesday January 21, 2014. 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.
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 20%. 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, 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 can 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. 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. 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… 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: Jan. 21. B: 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. RODINSON, Maxime, Europe and the Mystique of Islam, Translated by Roger VEINUS (London: Tauris, 1988), xv & 163 p., ISBN 1-85043-104-3. 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. ACKERMAN, Gerald M., American Orientalists (Paris: ACR Editions, 2010), ISBN 2867700787. 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: Jan. 28. B: 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. 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. 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. 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: Feb. 4. B: 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. XXX-XXX: l’art de la cour. 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. 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: Feb. 11. B: 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. 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: Feb. 18. B: Feb. 20. THE HOUSE General references: GUTHRIE, Sh., Arab Social Life in the Middle Ages. An Illustrated Study (London: Saqi Books, 1995). 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. 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. 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: Feb. 25. B: Feb. 27. 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. 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. LANE, Edward William, An account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians, written in Egypt during the Years 1833-1835. With sixty-five illustrations and twenty-three full-page engravings. 1895 Edition (Cairo - The Hague - London: Livres de France - East-West Publications, 1978), 583 p., ISBN 0-85692-009-6. — P. 337-342: Chapter XVI: The Bath. 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: March 4. B: March 6. 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. 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: March 11. B: March 13. 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: March 18. B: March 20. THE COFFEE-HOUSE General references: HATTOX, R. S., Coffee and Coffeehouses. The Origins of a Social Beverage in the Medieval Near East (Seattle–London: University of Washington Press, 1996). MATTHEE, R., The Pursuit of Pleasure: Drugs and Stimulants in Iranian History, 1500-1900 (Washington: Mage Publishers, 2005), xx & 346 p., ISBN 093421164-7. ÖZPALABIYIKLILAR, S. (éd.), Tanede saklı keyif, kahve - Coffee, Pleasures Hidden in a Bean (Istanbul: Yapı Kredi Kültür Sanat Yayıncılık, “Yapı Kredi Yayınları, 1434”, 2006). MICHOT, Y., L’opium et le café. Édition et traduction d’un texte arabe anonyme, précédées d’une première exploration de l’opiophagie ottomane et accompagnées d’une anthologie (Paris–Beirut: Albouraq, 1429/2008). —, AḤMAD AL-RŪMĪ AL-AQḤIṢĀRĪ, Against Smoking. An Ottoman Manifesto. Introduction, Editio Princeps and Translation. Foreword by Mohammad AKRAM NADWI (Oxford: Interface Publications - Markfield: Kube Publishing, 1431/2010), xvi & 108 p. – 978-1-84774-020-5. GREHAN, J., Smoking and “Early Modern” Sociability: The Great Tobacco Debate in the Ottoman Middle East (Seventeenth to Eighteenth Centuries), in American Historical Review, 111/5 (Dec. 2006), p. 1352-1377. Reading assignments:
a. AND, M., in H. |NALCIK & G. RENDA (eds.), Ottoman Civilization, 2 vols. (Ankara: Ministry of Culture and Tourism, 2004). — Vol. I, p. 421-441, The Social Life of the Ottomans in the Sixteenth Century. b. LEWIS, G. L., The Balance of Truth by Kātib Chelebi. Translated with an Introduction and Notes (London: George Allen and Unwin, “Ethical and Religious Classics of East and West”, 1957). — P. 38-64: Chapters II-VII, Singing; Dancing and Whirling; The Invoking of Blessings on Prophets and Companions; Tobacco; Coffee; Laudanum, Opium, and Other Drugs. c. LANE, Edward William, An account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians, written in Egypt during the Years 1833-1835. — P. 372-394: Chapters XIX-XXI: Public dancers; Serpent-Charmers, and Performers of Legerdemain Tricks, etc;Public Recitation of Romances. d. AYVAZOĞLU, Beşir, Turkish Coffee Culture (Ankara: Ministry of Culture and Tourism Publications, 2011), 160 p., ISBN 978-975-17-3567-6. — P. 67-76: Chapters IX-X: Coffee Service at Ottoman Mansions; Coffee in Domestic Life.
Class X. A: March 25. B: March 27. THE ROAD General references: 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. 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. 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. 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: April 1. B: April 3. THE CEMETERY General references: 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. Reading assignments: a. ELDEM, E., Death in Istanbul. Death and its Rituals in Ottoman-Islamic Culture (Istanbul: Ottoman Bnk 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: April 8. B: April 10. 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. 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.