Art in The Islamic World II: Mongols to Modernism

(4 Credits)

This course is intended as an introduction to the arts of Islam during a period of dynamic cultural and political change in the Islamic world. Beginning with the Mongol invasions of the 13th century, the course traces the development of Islamic art and architecture through the eras of Timur, the gunpowder empires (the Mughals, Ottomans, Safavids) and European colonialism, to the art of the nation-state in the 20th-century.