Massive Online Open Course Material Culture of Islam in Europe. Narratives around the Premodern Mediterranean 

(Elena Paulino and Borja Franco, dirs., UNED) 

This MOOC is one of the most relevant outputs of IS-LE. It aims to present some key aspects of the Islamic material legacy in Europe. Through the architecture, objects, works of literature, paintings, etc. it shows how Islamic culture was present in pre-modern Europe. Furthermore, this course shows how this Islamic presence has been historically perceived, how art has contributed to construct figures of otherness and perception in both Christian and Islamic Europe. The MOOC addresses the mobility of people, knowledge, artifacts, visual and formal elements across political and religious borders, and it focuses on the consequences (cultural, artistic and scientific) of this mobility. It also exposes how this material culture has been perceived (or not) as part of a common heritage in Europe and how it has been instrumental in constructing complex narratives of identity and otherness.

Please, take a look at our MOOC here: https://iedra.uned.es/courses/course-v1:UNED+MaterialCulture_001+2023/about