MDRST-329 Art of Devotion: Visual and Material Culture of Islam
What is the relationship between aesthetics, material culture, and religious experience? In this course we explore this question by examining the aesthetic traditions of Islam, focusing on how Muslims have used literature, visual art, musical performance, and architecture as modes of religious expression and creativity. Through studying aesthetics and devotion in the Islamic tradition, we will reflect on questions of cultural appropriation and reuse, politics of representation, and the global circulation of objects, peoples, and capital.
Seminar (12)
Credits
1
Cross Listed Courses
ARTH-329 /
HIST-329 / MDRST-329 /
RELST-329
Prerequisite
One 200-level course in Asian Studies (ASNST), History (HIST), or Religious Studies RELST)