Elon College
Studying Islamic Art History at SOAS has been one of the engrossing, pleasurable and rewarding pursuits I have undertaken.The SOAS teachers I encountered are exemplary. Their scholarship, first hand experiences and enthralling anecdotes introduced their topics to life. Within this rich and rigorous setting, additionally supported by entry to different SOAS departments and the quite a few co-curricular sources available in London, it’s inevitable that students try for excellence. The Mohave Museum of History and Arts makes each effort to current correct info. However, there is no assure implied as to the completeness and reliability of the identification of objects, dates, or locations on our posted photographs and/or artifacts.
This course explores the useful and symbolic function that structure played in the course of the empire’s formative centuries, when three successive capital — Bursa, Edirne, and Istanbul — served to visualise the sultans’ rising claims to common authority. With reference to mosques, palaces, tombs, and other categories of structure, the course will study the buildings of their creative, social, and political contexts. Themes to be addressed include patronage and audience, architectural apply and the building commerce, ceremonial and ritual, topography and concrete planning, and the connection of Ottoman architecture to …