Arts of the Islamic World

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The lectures in this series have been structured to provide a broad overview of both pre-Islamic and Islamic art. The subjects include pre-Islamic art in Iran, Central Asia, Arabia and Byzantium, painting, architecture, ceramics, textiles, calligraphy, Islam in India, attitudes towards images, and c…

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    • Mar 19, 2015 LATEST EPISODE
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    • 44m AVG DURATION
    • 22 EPISODES


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    Imagining Europe at the Persian Court in the Seventeenth Century (1590-1720) (Part 2 of 2)

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 19, 2015 22:43


    Amy Landau, Walters Art Museum

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    Imagining Europe at the Persian Court in the Seventeenth Century (1590-1720) (Part 1 of 2)

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 19, 2015 53:06


    Amy Landau, Walters Art Museum

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    Seek Knowledge Evan as Far as China: East-West Cultural Transmissions in Post Mongol Iran (Part 1 fo 2)

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 19, 2015 53:24


    Ladan Akbarnia, British Museum

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    Seek Knowledge Even as Far as China: East-West Cultural Transmission in Post Mongol Iran (Part 2 of 2)

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 19, 2015 31:44


    Ladan Akbarnia, British Museum

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    The Art of Islamic Calligraphy: A Journey through Time (Part 1 of 2)

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 19, 2015 60:53


    Maryam Ekhtiar, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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    The Art of Islamic Calligraphy: A Journey through Time (Part 2 of 2)

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 19, 2015 39:07


    Maryam Ekhtiar, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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    The Visual Culture of Islam in India (Part 1 of 2)

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 18, 2015 59:09


    Alka Patel, UC Irvine

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    The Visual Culture of Islam in India (Part 2 of 2)

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 18, 2015 46:23


    Alka Patel, UC Irvine

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    Building Types in Islamic Architecture (Part 1 of 2)

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 18, 2015 54:57


    Santhi Kavuri-Bauer, San Francisco State University

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    Building Types in Islamic Architecture (Part 2 of 2)

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 18, 2015 44:23


    Santhi Kavuri-Bauer, San Francisco State University

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    Chinese Influence on Islamic Glazed Ceramics (Part 1 of 2)

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 18, 2015 51:12


    Oliver Watson, University of Oxford

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    Chinese Influence on Islamic Glazed Ceramics (Part 2 of 2)

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 18, 2015 35:18


    Oliver Watson, University of Oxford

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    Seeing and Being Seen in Isfahan: Expanding Gaze for an Early Modern Capital (Part 1 of 2)

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 18, 2015 50:41


    Renata Holod, University of Pennsylvania

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    Seeing and Being Seen in Isfahan: Expanding Gaze for an Early Modern Capital (Part 2 of 2)

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 18, 2015 33:03


    Renata Holod, University of Pennsylvania

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    Assimilation and Conquest: Byzantine Sources for Islamic Art (Part 1 of 2)

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 12, 2015 59:00


    Helen Evans, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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    Assimilation and Conquest: Byzantine Sources for Islamic Art (Part 2 of 2)

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 12, 2015 43:55


    Helen Evans, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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    Arts of Ancient Arabia (Part 1 of 2)

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 12, 2015 58:00


    Massumeh Farhad, Freer and Sackler Galleries of Art, Smithsonian Institution

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    Arts of Ancient Arabia (Part 2 of 2)

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 12, 2015 33:43


    Massumeh Farhad, Freer and Sackler Galleries of Art, Smithsonian Institution

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    An Introduction to the Art of Pre-Islamic Iran and Central Asia (Part 1 of 2)

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 12, 2015 38:32


    David Stronach, UC Berkeley

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    An Introduction to the Art of Pre-Islamic Iran and Central Asia (Part 2 of 2)

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 12, 2015 32:32


    David Stronach, UC Berkeley

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    Introduction to Islamic Art (Part 1 of 2)

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 11, 2015 46:57


    Qamar Adamjee, Asian Art Museum

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    Introduction to Islamic Art (Part 2 of 2)

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 11, 2015 28:54


    Qamar Adamjee, Asian Art Museum

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