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PART 1:
Technology: Part 1 TECHNOLOGY PART 1: HOW POTS ARE MADE
   
Lecture 1: 'Prologues and Epilogues in Islamic Ceramics: Clays, Repairs and Secondary Use', by Marcus Milwright
   
Technology: Part 2 TECHNOLOGY PART 2: HOW POTS ARE STUDIED
   
   
PART 2:
Pre-Islamic Pottery (Late Antique & Sasanian styles)
Abbasid Ceramics ABBASID CERAMICS: C8th-C10th
   
Lecture 2: 'The Political Initiative for the Mosque of Ibn Tulun in Cairo and its Relation to Samarra', by Mariam Rosser-Owen
   
Medieval Khurasan POTTERY OF MEDIEVAL KHURASAN
   
Lecture 3 (a): 'Functions of Literary Epigraphy on Medieval Islamic Ceramics, Part 1: Samanid Epigraphic Pottery', by Oya Pancaroglu.
   
Fatimid Lustre FATIMID LUSTRE: C11th & C12th
'Tell Minis' Ware 'TELL MINIS' WARE: mid-late C12th
Spain & North Africa The Pottery of Spain and North Africa
Kashan Lustre KASHAN LUSTRE: C12th - C14th
   
Lecture 3 (b): 'Functions of Literary Epigraphy on Medieval Islamic Ceramics, Part 2: Poetry and Pottery in the Late Seljuk Period', by Oya Pancaroglu.
   
Raqqa Lustre RAQQA LUSTRE: C12th & C13th by Katherine Strange Burke
  (contains Catalogue of Raqqa vessels in the Ashmolean Collections)
Iznik Pottery IZNIK POTTERY INDUSTRY: C15th-C18th
Timurid/Safavid Survey of Persian Pottery under the Timurids & Safavids
   
PART 3:
  GLOSSARY
   
  THUMBNAILS of all images included in this Course
   
  MAPS of places discussed in this Course
   
  GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY
   
  STUDY GUIDES
for students of Oxford University courses in Islamic Art and Archaeology
   
  Abu'l-Qasim of Kashan's Treatise (1301), by James Allan
   
  "Esfahan: an unexpected pottery workshop" by Alan Caiger-Smith
   
   
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