Participating Campuses: Host – University of Michigan | Receiving – University of Maryland
Time: T, TH: 11:30-1:00pm
Course Numbers:
- Michigan – HISTART 285+
- Maryland – AAST 298B+
This course examines the art and architecture in the Islamic world with a chronological and regional approach. It starts with the establishment of Islam in Arabia in the seventh century, continues with the course of its spread throughout Europe, Asia and Africa, and ends with contemporary Islamic art and architecture. It focuses on the spread of the Word of God (Qurʾan) in different media and settings (e.g., manuscripts and buildings), the definition of Islamic art, major monuments as well as vernacular architecture, palatial art production as well as ephemera, artists and patrons from minority communities, patronage of women, gendered spaces, soundscapes and smell escapes, interactions between China, Europe, and the Byzantine Empire, and Orientalist art and architecture.
About the Instructor: Sabiha Göloğlu is a recipient of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship (Global) for her research project at the University of Hamburg and the University of Michigan. Formerly, she was a postdoctoral university assistant at the University of Vienna and a CAHIM (Connecting Art Histories in the Museum) fellow of the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz and the Museum für Islamische Kunst in Berlin.
Her work focuses on various aspects of Ottoman representations of the Islamic pilgrimage sites, including their pictorial modes, production, function, and circulation. She explores devotional imagery in Ottoman prints, panels, and prayer books (e.g., the Dalāʾil al-Khayrāt and the Enʿām-ı Şerīf) with their talismanic uses. She also researches canvas paintings and photographs of Mecca and Medina, as well as their mobility as images and objects.
Fields of Study
- Art, architecture, and urbanism in the Ottoman Empire
- History and visual culture of Islamic pilgrimage
- Islamic arts of the book
- Nineteenth-century photography in the Middle East