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Lecturer: Assistant professor PhD Marius LAZĂR

Course start date: 10.10.2022

Understanding the history and main forms of Muslim art and architecture; understanding their relevance to universal cultural and art history; understanding the central role played by forms of artistic expression in the codification and expression of Muslim spirituality and values; understanding the styles, forms, artistic and architectural symbols of the different regions of the Muslim world and their intersections with local artistic traditions; learning key references of Muslim art and architecture in various geographical and cultural spaces

Course duration: 10.10.2022-01.03.2023

Evaluation date: 01.04.2023

Date of granting of certificates: 01.06.2023

Course fee: 1000 lei

  • (50% discount for UBB staff)
  • Other learners: 10% for two courses, 15% for three courses, 20% for four courses, 25% for five courses, 30% for six or more courses.
  • Possibility to pay in two instalments (for each semester, separately

1. General description. Aesthetic and religion in Islam. Artistic influences and syncretism
2. Calligraphy, painting and book art
3. Decorative arts: patterns, materials, symbols
4. Religious and civil architecture: techniques, typologies, styles
5. Beginnings: the Umayyad period
6. Abbasid Iraq
7. Muslim Spain
8. Medieval Maghreb
9. Egyptian art and architecture, from the Tulunid to the Mamluk
10. Art and architecture in medieval Syria
11. Art and architecture in Iran and Central Asia, from Samanids to Timurids
12. Safavid and Qajar Iran
13. The Turkish-Ottoman period
14. Muslim India