* OTTM 2940a / HSAR 4357a / MMES 2940a / NELC 2940a, Motifs, Patterns, and Painting Techniques in Traditional Turkish Arts  Ozgen Felek

This painting class focuses on classical motifs and patterns in traditional Turkish arts in an Ottoman context.  While learning motifs and patterns, students will learn not only the manuscript culture, but also non-manuscript items produced in the Ottoman Empire. Students will practice drawing and painting stylized flowers (such as “panch” and “khatayi”), animals, and abstract patterns used in Turkish manuscript paintings, miniatures, calligraphy, rugs, kilims, stonework, tiles and ceramics, pottery, metal and leather work, and architecture. Materials used in traditional Turkish arts will be studied in detail as well. Students also create their own compositions incorporating traditional Turkish artistic principles. In addition to developing painting skills through individualized attention and support in class, a scheduled visit to the Beinecke Library enhances applied learning by encouraging students to examine artistic aspects in Turkish manuscripts.  HU
Th 4pm-5:55pm

* OTTM 3100a, Introduction To Ottoman Turkish I  Ozgen Felek

This course studies the Turkish language written in the Arabic alphabet during the Ottoman Empire (1299-1923), which ruled for almost 700 years from North Africa to the Balkans, and the early years of the Turkish Republic established in 1923. The knowledge of Ottoman Turkish thus gives students an important advantage over experts on just one geographical and cultural area of the Muslim world. Students participating in the course develop skills that enable them to read Ottoman Turkish texts and pursue independent work in Ottoman studies. We work on building up a richer vocabulary, developing a good competence of Ottoman Turkish, and improving students’ reading skills. Since culture is an integrated part of the language, various cultural expressions are introduced through a variety of historical and literary Ottoman texts from the fourteenth to nineteenth centuries. 
MW 4pm-5:15pm

* OTTM 3200b, Introduction to Ottoman Turkish II  Ozgen Felek

This courses studies the Turkish language written in the Arabic alphabet during the Ottoman Empire (1299-1923), which ruled for almost 700 years from North Africa to the Balkans, and the early years of the Turkish Republic established in 1923. The knowledge of Ottoman Turkish thus gives students an important advantage over experts on just one geographical and cultural area of the Muslim world. Students develop skills that enable them to read Ottoman Turkish texts and pursue independent work in Ottoman studies. We work on building up a richer vocabulary, developing a good competence of Ottoman Turkish, and improving students’ reading skills. Since culture is an integrated part of language, various cultural expressions are introduced through a variety of historical and literary Ottoman texts from the fourteenth to twentieth centuries.  Prerequisite: OTTM 3100.
MW 4pm-5:15pm

* OTTM 3950b / NELC 3950b, Manuscript Illumination in Islamic and Western Traditions  Ozgen Felek

This course introduces students to the processes of manuscript production across Western and Islamic traditions in the pre-modern world. It offers a mixture of lectures, reading-based discussions, and practical sessions that provide students with the opportunity to work through the steps of illuminating a manuscript. During lectures, digital facsimiles of specific manuscripts are shown, and students analyze them during the discussion. Students learn drawing and painting stylized floral motifs, animals, and abstract patterns used in Islamic and Western manuscript paintings from a comparative perspective. Materials used in traditional book arts are studied in detail as well. Students create pigments and learn design techniques. As a practice-based course, it explores the development and transmission of artisanal knowledge in the premodern and early modern periods. In placing Islamic (Arabic, Ottoman, and Persian) and Western illumination traditions (mainly French, Flemish, and English late medieval) in conversation, this course seeks to provide students with a comparative and interdisciplinary understanding of how tacit knowledge developed in different traditions. In addition to developing painting skills through individualized attention and support in class, a scheduled visit to the Beinecke Library enhances applied learning by encouraging students to examine artistic aspects of book arts in Western and Islamic manuscripts.  HU
Th 4pm-5:55pm