This course investigates the domestic sphere in an Islamic context. Students will become familiar with the history, structure, and social use of residential forms in areas that are now a part of Arabia, North Africa and Egypt, Greater Syria, Iran, Iraq, Turkey and the Ottoman Balkans. They also will be introduced to the ways these spaces have been imaged and imagined in art, novels, memoirs, films, and scholarly texts. By considering residences as they are built and as they are described, students will learn both how architecture is historically specific and how it is invested with public and private meanings. Material is presented as electronic seminars.