Arabo-Islamic Archaeology

Code: HIS12033L

6 ECTS

Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours

Scientific Area: Archeology

Teaching languages: Portuguese

Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese, English, French, Spanish

Regime de Frequência: Presencial

Presentation

It is intended that the student identifies the main elements of the medieval Islamic civilization between the 8th and 15th centuries, that they know and learn to use the fundamental bibliography and that they know how to identify the main characteristics of the material culture of the Islamic world.

Sustainable Development Goals

Educação de qualidade - Assegurar a educação inclusiva, e equitativa e de qualidade, e promover oportunidades de aprendizagem ao longo da vida para todos.

Igualdade de género - Alcançar a igualdade de gênero e empoderar todas as mulheres e meninas.

Reduzir as desigualdades - Reduzir as desigualdades dentro dos países e entre eles.

Cidades e comunidades sustentáveis - Tornar as cidades e os assentamentos humanos inclusivos, seguros, resilientes e sustentáveis.

Produção e consumo sustentáveis - Assegurar padrões de produção e de consumo sustentáveis.

Paz, justiça e instituições eficazes - Paz, justiça e instituições eficazes promover sociedades pacíficas e inclusivas par ao desenvolvimento sustentável, proporcionar o acesso à justiça para todos e construir instituições eficazes, responsáveis
e inclusivas em todos os níveis.

Learning Goals

Knowledge:
Recognize the archaeological components that may be found in any work research and that are characterizing occupancy in time Islamic / andalusí;
Critically analyze the main trends of research in order to properly fit the data materials and historical and its actual importance and significance;
Skills:
• Characterize the balance traces of existing Islamic period in Portugal - in urban and rural areas - and other Iberian areas, as well as the material culture associated with them;
• Provide appropriate methodologies for the identification and pursuit of material realities of the Islamic period peninsular;
• To acquire work skills to participate and come to direct archaeological excavations in this area, as well as to study unpublished collections

1. Introduction to Islamic Civilization and Its Material Culture
2. Introduction to the History of al-Andalus and Its Periodization
3. The Formation of Islamic Material Culture
4. Settlement Structures in al-Andalus
5. Mad?na (pl. mudum). The city in al-Andalus
6. Public and Religious Spaces. Places of Sociability
7. Economic Activities: Agriculture, Industries, and Trade
8. Home and Its objects
9. The Ceramics of al-Andalus
10. Iconography and Symbolism in the Material Culture of al-Andalus

Teaching Methods

Classroom teaching in the classroom, using audiovisual information. It is planned to
carry out visits to museums and exhibitions as well as outlets for the ground to
observe in situ archaeological evidence of the time under study. There will be practical
classes with material handling and reading plans and 3D models of archaeological
sites.

Assessment

There will be a frequency of written test (50%), an intermediate assessment, by
submitting written work on a specific theme (40%) and will take into account the
attendance and participation of students in (10%).