Courses:

The Formative Period

1. Birth of Islam

2. Vocabulary of Islamic Architecture

3. The Architecture of the Early Mosques

The Classical Period

4. Umayyad Grandeur: First Imperial Expressions

5. The Splendors of the Abbasids

6. Religious Monuments of the West: Ifriqiya and Spain

7. The Fatimid Caliphate: A New Tradition and Old Forms

8. Mosques of Iran and Central Asia (8th-11th Century)

The Medieval Period

9. The Great Seljuqs, the Sunni Revival, and the Four-Iwan Plan

10. Anatolia, Iraq, and Syria (11th-13th Century)

11. Architecture of the Ayyubids and Mamluks

12. Religious Architecture of the Ilkhanids

13. Religious Architecture of the Muslim Dynasties in India (12th-15th Century)

14. Late Mamluk Religious Architecture

15. Religious Architecture of the Timurids

The Age of the Gunpowder Empires

16. Religious Architecture of Anatolia (14th-15th Century)

17. Classical Ottoman Architecture: The Age of Sinan

18. The Maydan-i-Shah in Isfahan, the Safavid Capital

19. Mughal Mausolea

The Modern Period

20. XIXth Century Religious Architecture

21. Historicism and Religious Architecture in the Late Twentieth Century