Robert DeCaroli received his Ph.D. in the field South and Southeast Asian art history from UCLA. He is a specialist in the early history of Buddhism and has conducted fieldwork in India, Sri Lanka, and Southeast Asia. He is the author of Haunting the Buddha: Indian Popular Religions and the Formatio...
This course is an examination of art and architecture of Iran, Central Asia and Turkey in the medieval and early Modern periods. After a short introduction to early Islamic art, we will begin the course in Baghdad of 1258, on the eve of the Mongol invasion. We will then trace the establishment of the...