Islamic Art,
Architecture, & Culture

Course syllabi are generously provided by faculty teaching about material and visual culture in the Muslim world writ large. They are posted here as a resource for students and teachers. Any syllabus contributed to Archnet remains the intellectual property of the author and should not be redistributed or used commercially without their expressed consent.

Aesthetics of Uneven Development

Cornell University

Instructor: Professor Talinn Grigor

Art in the Wake of the Mongol Conquests Genghis Khan and His Successors

Havard University

Instructor: Professor David J. Roxburgh

Art, Architecture and Tradition; Building Identity in West Africa

Wesleyan University

Instructor: Professor Peter Mark

Cultural Constructions of Asian Cities

Course taught at Massachusetts Institute of Technology; prior to 2010

Instructor: Robert Cowherd

Cultural History of the Islamic Garden (7th to the 14th Centuries)

United Kingdom

Instructor: Dr Gillian Barker

Design Experimentation & Knowledge Building in Architecture

University of Toronto

Instructor: Zahra Punja

Developing Worlds: Planning and Design in Latin America and the Middle East after WWII

Graduate School of Design, Harvard University

Instructor: Hashim Sarkis

Domestic Architecture in Islam and the Poetics of Space

Center for Middle Eastern Studies, The University of Texas at Austin

Instructor: Doctor Carel Bertram

Gender, Space, Architecture

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Instructor: Professor Heghnar Watenpaugh

History and Culture of Cyprus: A Survey on its Cultural Heritage

Eastern Mediterranean University, Faculty of Architecture

Instructor: Professor Dr. Netice Yildiz

Islamic Architecture and the Environment

MIT Department of Architecture, School of Architecture and Planning

Instructor: Professor Nasser Rabbat

Islamic Art and Architecture

Dartmouth College

Instructor: Professor Glaire Anderson

Islamic Palaces & Court Culture (8th-17th centuries)

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Instructor: Professor Glaire Anderson

Orientalism and Representation

MIT Department of Architecture, School of Architecture and Planning

Instructor: Professor Nasser Rabbat

Religious Architecture in Islamic Cultures

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture

Instructor: Professor Nasser Rabbat

Religious and Cultural Politics in Post-Revolutionary Iran

The Middle East Centre, St.Antony's College

Instructor: Mr. Pedram Khosronejad

The Age of Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent: Art, Architecture, and Ceremonial at the Ottoman Court

Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture, Harvard University

Instructor: Professor Gülru Necipoglu

The Architecture of Cairo

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Instructor: Professor Nasser Rabbat

The Architecture of Power: Palaces and Palatial Spaces in Islam

Center for Middle Eastern Studies,The University of Texas at Austin

Instructor: Doctor Carel Bertram

The Art of the Islamic Book, 1250–1600

Harvard University

Instructor: Professor David Roxburgh

The Islamic City: Historicity and Abstraction

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture

Instructor: Professor Nasser Rabbat

The Politics of Public Space in Islamic Societies

Rhode Island School of Design, Department of Architecture

Instructor: Professor Talinn Grigor

Theories and Histories of Architectural Preservation

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Instructor: Professor Heghnar Watenpaugh

Topics in the Arabic Art and Culture: The Western Mediterranean

Havard University, Department of History of Art and Architecture

Instructor: Professor David J. Roxburgh

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