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Teaching Islamic Art

Khamseen Mini-Multimedia--Short Introductory Videos by Historians of Islamic Art

“Khamseen: Islamic Art History Online” is an emerging platform of digital resources to aid the teaching of the history of Islamic art and architecture. In its initial stage, the platform provides original multimedia content developed by scholars from across the field of Islamic art, which is intended to aid educators in the creation of an interactive learning environment and to contribute to new ways of teaching in general, bringing new voices, perspectives, and materials into our classrooms. The project is spearheaded by Prof. Christiane Gruber at the University of Michigan and a team of six collaborators. Team Khamseen will make this material available to public audiences, with the aim to establish and expand a website with additional resources over the coming months. Currently available mini-multimedia files include the following presentations:

Glaire Anderson, Mihrab at the Great Mosque of Córdoba

Patricia Blessing, Water and Sound in Islamic Architecture

Alexander Brey, Al-Walid's Baths Qusayr Amra

Sam Bowker, The Egyptian Tentmakers and the Art of Khayamiya

Ashley Dimmig, Islamic Art at the Walters Art Museum

Emine Fetvacı, Ottoman Illustrated Histories

Yasemin Gencer,  İbrahim Müteferrika and the First Printed Books of the Islamic World

Sabiha Göloğlu, Touching Mecca & Medina: The Dalā'il al-Khayrāt and Devotional Practices

Christiane Gruber, A Safavid Painting of the Prophet Muhammad's Miʿraj

Christiane Gruber, George Floyd in Iran, Syria, and Afghanistan: Visual Commentaries in Islamic Lands

Negar Habibi, Persian Painting in the Second Half of the Seventeenth Century: Farangi Sâzi Safavid Paintings

Ruba Kana'an, The Bobrinski Bucket

Heba Mostafa, Dome of the Rock Original Mosaics

Emily Neumeier, The Paintings of Osman Hamdi Bey

Bernard O'Kane, Khanqah of Baybar al-Jashinkir, 1306-1310

Rachel Parikh, Islamic Arms and Armor: A Look at Dhu'l Fiqar, ʿAli's Miraculous Sword

Rachel Parikh, Painting the Royal Hunt in India: A Prince on Horseback Hunting a Lion

Jennifer Pruitt, Al-Aqmar Mosque

Yael Rice, Jahangir's Dream

Ünver Rüstem, The Nuruosmaniye Mosque and the Ottoman Baroque

Marika Sardar, The Gwalior Qur'an

Marika Sardar, A Samanid Epigraphic Dish

Alex Dika Seggerman, Mahmoud Mukhtar’s Khamasin: Sculpture in Modern Egypt

Amanda Hannoosh Steinberg, Harvard Fine Arts Library's Stuart Cary Welch Islamic & South Asian Photograph Collection

Melis Taner, Contextualizing the Hünername (Book of Talents) 

Elizabeth Dospěl Williams, Craft and Aesthetics in Byzantine and Early Islamic Textiles

Olivia Wolf, Monumental Mosques in Latin America: Key Modern & Contemporary Case Studies

Khamseen is an ongoing project and more material will be included on a rolling basis. For any questions, or if you are interested in contributing a mini multi-media file, please contact Team Khamseen at TeamKhamseen@umich.edu

Teaching Islamic Art

A Discussion of Online Resources for the Teaching of Islamic Art with Christiane Gruber, Ruba Kana'an, Michael Toler and Matt Saba

HIAA-sponsored discussion of online resources for the teaching of Islamic art on July 15th, 2020.

The discussion includes a synthesis of online resources by Christiane Gruber (University of Michigan), an exploration of museum online collections of Islamic art by Ruba Kana'an (University of Toronto, Mississauga), and an overview of Archnet by Michael Toler and Matt Saba (Archnet/MIT).

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