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Before joining SOAS in 2000, Professor Abouseif taught Islamic Art at the American University in Cairo and at the Universities of Freiburg and Munich in Germany.

On two occasions, she was Visiting Professor at Harvard University at the Fine Art Department and the Graduate School of Design; she also was awarded a Bin-Ladin-fellowship to spend a semester at the Graduate School of Design.

She has also been invited as a Visiting Professor at the Universities of Berlin and Bamberg in Germany and the University of Leuven in Belgium, and was "Distinguished Visiting Professor" at the American University in Cairo.

The course deals with selected topics on Islamic art and archaeology of the period 1300-1800 AD, including both the central and more peripheral regions of the Islamic world. These are intended to give a broad coverage of some of the later cultures of Islam, their painting, minor arts, and the documentary evidence for them and their development in architectural decoration.

It focuses on Mamluk Art and art patronage in Egypt and Syria (1250-1517), and also on architecture history and the relationship between the metropolitan style in Cairo and the regional styles in Syria (Damascus, Aleppo, Tripoli) and in Egypt itself. The course will also deal with the decorative arts as an aspect of Mamluk princely patronage.

In alternating years, a course on Ottoman art will be offered. Both courses will provide students of an overview of Later Islamic art, but each with a different emphasis. Topics include:

Mamluk architecture and urban aesthetics in Cairo;
the architecture of al-Zahir Baybars and al-Mansur Qalawun (Cairo);
the architecture of al-Nasir Muhammad and his sons in 14th century Cairo;
early Mamluk architecture in
Syria,
Damascus,
Aleppo,
Tripoli;
the early 15th century in Cairo;
the late 15th century in Cairo;
late Mamluk architecture in Syria;
Mamluk buildings in the Egyptian province;
patronage of the decorative arts in Egypt and Syria;
the continuity of Mamluk art in Ottoman Egypt and Syria.
Objectives and learning outcomes of the course

The course deals with selected topics on Islamic art and archaeology of the period 1300-1800 AD, including both the central and more peripheral regions of the Islamic world. These are intended to give a broad coverage of some of the later cultures of Islam, their painting, minor arts, and the documentary evidence for them and their development in architectural decoration.

The objective is to teach the students the art of the Mamluks in Egypt and Syria (1250-1517) and the mechanisms of Mamluk patronage of the arts. Upon completion of the course the students should know the history of Mamluk architecture in Cairo according to the secondary literature available and be acquainted with the relationship between the metropolitan style in Cairo and the regional styles in Syria (Damascus, Aleppo, Tripoli, Jerusalem). They should also be familiar with the decorative arts as an aspect of Mamluk princely patronage, and be acquainted with the collection of the British Museum (a visit is included in the course). They should be equipped to interpret ground plans and elevations, to discuss the various theories and interpretations published the subject and to know where to look for primary sources for advanced research.

The history of architecture, urbanism and the decorative arts of the Middle East from the 13th to the 19th centuries with emphasis on Egypt, Syria mad Turkey; Islamic aesthetics and cultural history; moreover waqf studies (foundations and trusts). Her latest book, co-edited with Stephen Vernoit: Islamic Art in the 19th Century: Tradition, Innovation, Eclecticism, published by E.J. Brill Leiden/Boston, is based on a conference held at SOAS in April 2003, which invited scholars to look at the 19th century, a previously neglected period of Islamic Art, as deserving of most careful study from artistic, social and political perspectives.

She is currently completing a book on Cairo and Mamluk Patronage, which investigates the cultural and urban environment of the architecture created in Cairo by the Mamluks between the 13th and 16th centuries and the relationship between metropolitan and provincial areas. Her other major research interests deal with poetic inscriptions on late Mamluk metalwork.
his course deals with the history of painting in the Iranian world from the Ilkhanid to the Qajar (14th to 19th centuries) and in the Ottoman Empire (16th to 19th C.). Beside miniature painting other aspects of pictorial art in various media including ceramics and lacquer are discussed.
Objectives and learning outcomes of the course

On completion of this course, which focuses on ceramics, glass and metalwork, the student should:

be able to identify objects of art and material culture in terms of their material and technique, and the period and place of their production;
recognize styles and the circumstances of their development and tell about possible influences of other arts;
be able to place the objects of study in the larger context of Islamic art and culture, and be aware of scholarly debates or controversies regarding them.
Method of assessment

Exam 80%, Coursework 20% (3 pieces)

Suggested reading

Thomas Arnold, Painting in Islam, Oxford, 1929, repr. 1974.
Nuhan Atasoy and Filiz Cagman, Turkish Miniature Painting, Istanbul, 1974
Sheila Blair, ' Paterns of Patronage and Production in Ilkhanid Iran' in: Julian Raby and Teresa Fitzherbert (eds.), The Court of the Ilkhans (1290-1340), Oxford, 1996.
Sheila Canby, Persian Painting, The British Museum, London, 1993.
Sheila Canby, The Golden Age of Persian Art, London, 1999.
J.M. Rogers, F. Cagman and Z. Tanindi,, Topkapi: The Albums and Illustrated Manuscripts, London, 1986.
Eleanor Sims with Boris Marshak, Peerless Images: Persian Painting and its Sources, New Haven/London, 2002.
Norah M. Titley, Persian Miniature Painitng and its Influence on the Art of Turkey and India, The British Library, 1983.

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