Islamic World
Lectures by Melanie Urban
Lectures by Melanie Urban
Sample Lecture Topics
Sample Lecture Topics
- Rise of Islam and creation of empire in the 7th century
- History of the spread of Islam across Asia and North Africa, and into Spain
- Rise and fall of states within the Islamic world
- Artistic and cultural legacies, adopted and created
- Islamic art, defined and illustrated, religious and secular, including painting, calligraphy, and architecture
- Technologies, including metalwork, ceramics
- Major tenets of the faith
- Role of trade within and beyond the Islamic world, including Silk Roads across Asia and sea routes from the Mediterranean into the Indian Ocean and farther east
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- China
- Crusades and the military orders
- Europeans in Asia
- India
- Islamic world
- Japan
- Persia
- Silk Road
- Southeast Asia
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