The Islamic Cobalt Blue That Created Ming China’s Iconic Porcelain

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The Professor Ali Show

Professor Ali H. Akhtar

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The official podcast of Prof. Ali H. Akhtar: American professor at Akhawayn University (Morocco), award-winning DJ, and 3x bestselling author of 1368: China and the Making of the Modern World (Stanford University Press), Italy and the Islamic World: From Caesar to Mussolini (Edinburgh University Press), and Philosophers Sufis and Caliphs (Cambridge University Press). Alumnus: Cornell University (BA), New York University (MA, PhD). History, Tech, Culture, International Studies, Morocco.

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The Islamic Cobalt Blue That Created Ming China’s Iconic Porcelain

The Professor Ali Show

13 minutes

1 day ago

The Islamic Cobalt Blue That Created Ming China’s Iconic Porcelain

In this late-night deep dive, we explore how the blue in your classic “Chinese” vase actually started in 9th-century Iraq. We examine into how Abbasid cobalt mastery traveled east via Mongol routes and birthed Yuan/Ming blue-and-white porcelain.

We explore:

Basra workshops and Persian cobalt mines
Mongol Pax Mongolica trade explosion
Reverse influence loop
Modern cobalt ties

Sources:

Qatar Museums cobalt collections
Jingdezhen porcelain history
Ilkhanid hybrid wares