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Historiography of Islamic Architecture

Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States4.619
Free, no sign-up neededFall 2014English
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This seminar offers a critical review of scholarship on Islamic architecture through close reading of scholarly texts, museum exhibitions, and architectural projects. It also tackles methodological and historiographical questions about the field’s formation, genealogy, recent expansion, and its evolving historical and theoretical contours.

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