Monuments and Cities of the Islamic World: An Introduction

Harvard FAS

The course offers an introduction to twelve iconic monuments and sites of the Islamic world from the formative era of Islam up to the modern period. It covers various types of building—mosques, palaces, shrines, multifunctional complexes—and city types as well as the factors that shaped them, whether artistic, patronal, socio-political, religio-cultural, or economic.Each case study is divided into two lectures. The first lecture presents the monument or site by “walking” through it. The…