#  HAA 128N: Islamic Ornamentality, Abstraction, and Theories of Perception 

 





 Semester:   Fall 

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 Year offered:  2025 

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 Link: [Course Website](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/153326) 

 

 

 

Instructor: Gulru Necipoglu-Kafadar

Critically explores the historiography and interpretations of Islamic ornament. Themes include ornamentality and abstraction, theories of perception, orientalist discourses on the so-called "arabesque," resonances of non-figural abstraction with modernism and postmodern aesthetics.