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4.696 A Global History of Architecture Writing Seminar
Spring 2008
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Shiben Banerji
Global Port Cities c. 1300
SLIDE LIST
1. Indian Ocean Region map
2. Excerpt for Janet Abu-Lughod’s Before European Hegemony
3. Trade Cities of the Indian Ocean Region
4. Trade and Pilgrim Cities of the Indian Ocean Region
5. Defining global port cities
6. Map of the East African Coast marking medieval settlements
7. Trade Cities of the Indian Ocean Region
8. 13th century miniature of a dhow; photograph of a 20th century dhow
9. Monsoon wind patterns
10. Known trade routes in the Indian Ocean Region
11. Map of case studies for the lecture
12. Google Map of Kilwa
13. Kilwa Great Mosque satellite image (11th – 18th centuries)
14. Kilwa Great Mosque aerial photograph
15. Kilwa Great Mosque plan and elevation
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16. Kilwa Great Mosque chronology
17. Kilwa Great House (14th – 16th centuries)
18. Google Map of Kilwa
19. Husuni Kubwa satellite image (1315 – 1330 AD)
20. Husuni Kubwa Ruin plan and model
21. Husuni Kubwa axonometric reconstruction
22. Porcelain and pottery found in Kilwa
23. Google Map of Cambay/Khambat
24. Jam-e-Masjid satellite image (1325 AD)
25. Jam-e-Masjid colonnaded walkway photograph
26. Jam-e-Masjid & al-Kazeruni tomb plan
27. Jam-e-Masjid plan + archival photograph
28. Jam-e-Masjid ceiling photograph
29. Inscriptions found at two Cambay mosques
30. Portrait of a donor-couple (1203 AD)
31. Palmleaf manuscript illustrations from the Santinath Grantha Bhandhar, Cambay
32. Blank slide
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33. Google Map of Sravana Belgola
34. Sravana Belgola Bahubali (c.981 AD)
35. Sravana Belgola images (10th – 20th centuries)
36. Mahamastakabhisheka images from Sravana Belgola Bahubali
37. Camundarya inscriptions (c. 981 AD)
38. Google map of Tulunad showing Karkala, Moodbidiri, Udipi and Mangalore
39. Karkala Bahubali and Chaturmukha Basadi satellite image
40. Karkala images (15th century)
41. Google map of Tulunad showing Karkala, Moodbidiri, Udipi and Mangalore
42. ‘Thousand Pillar Temple’ satellite image (15th century)
43. ‘Thousand Pillar Temple’ photograph
44. ‘Thousand Pillar Temple’ arcade photograph
45. ‘Thousand Pillar Temple’ entrance and column detail photographs
46. Palmleaf manuscript excerpts from the Moodbidiri Grantha Bhandar
47. Google map of Tulunad showing Karkala, Moodbidiri, Udipi and Mangalore
48. Udipi Sri Krishna Matha Complex satellite image (13th century)
49. Udipi Sri Krishna Matha Complex plans
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50. Udipi Sri Krishna Matha Complex: Krishna icon in Ananteswar Temple
51. Udipi Sri Krishna Matha Complex: Brahmaratha
52. Blank slide
53. Trade and Pilgrim Cities of the Indian Ocean Region
54. Bajang Ratu Gate, Trowulan (13th century)
55. Majapahit Complex, Twoulan images
56. Links to videos of Deen Maliki Mosque and Cheman Juma Masjid
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Required Readings:
1. Relevant sections from 1000 and 1200 chapters in Jarzombek/Prakash
2. Abu-Lughod, J.L. “Studying a System in Formation,” Before European
Hegemony: The World System A.D. 1250-1350. New York: Oxford University
Press, 1989.
3. Moon, K. Kilwa Kisiwani: Ancient Port City of the East Africa Coast. Dar es
Salaam: Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism, 2005.
Recommended Readings:
1. Chaudhuri, K.N. “The rise of Islam and the pattern of pre-emporia trade in early
Asia,” Trade and Civilisation in the Indian Ocean: An Economic History from the
Rise of Islam to 1750. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985
2. Pollock, S. “Cosmopolitan and Vernacular in History” in Public Culture 12.3
(2000) pp. 591-625.
3. When Asia Was the World. Cambridge: Da Capo Press, 2008.