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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458790003321

Titolo

Muqarnas [[electronic resource] ] : an annual on the visual culture of the Islamic world . Volume 25 Frontiers of Islamic art and architecture: essays in celebration of Oleg Grabar's eightieth birthday / / edited by Gülru Necipoğlu, Julia Bailey

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, : Brill, 2008

ISBN

1-282-60257-8

9786612602573

90-474-2674-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (406 p.)

Collana

Brill eBook titles 2008

Altri autori (Persone)

NecipoğluGülru

BaileyJulia <1944->

Disciplina

704.94897

Soggetti

Islamic art

Islamic architecture

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Sponsored by the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Materials / G. Necipoğlu -- “Barefoot And Naked”: What Did The Bedouin Of The Arab Conquests Look Like? / Patricia Crone -- The Namesake Taboo / Michael Cook -- The Dome Of The Rock As Palimpsest: ʿAbd Al-Malik’s Grand Narrative And Sultan Süleyman’s Glosses / Gülru Necipoğlu -- Between East And West: The Wall Paintings Of Samarra And The Construction Of Abbasid Princely Culture / Eva R. Hoffman -- Andalusian Roots And Abbasid Homage In The Qubbat Al-Barudiyyin In Marrakech / Yasser Tabbaa -- Design Without Representation In Medieval Egypt / Nasser Rabbat -- A Brief Biography Of Abu Zayd / Sheila S. Blair -- A Newly Read Inscription On The Walls Of Antalya, Turkey / Scott Redford -- Marginal Ornament: Poetics, Mimesis, And Devotion In The Palace Of The Lions / Cynthia Robinson -- Weaving Historical Narratives: Beirut’S Last Mamluk Monument / Howayda Al-Harithy -- The “Fatimid” Doors Of The Fakahani Mosque In



Cairo / Jonathan M. Bloom -- From Timur To Tivoli: Reflections On IL Giardino All’Italiana / Lisa Golombek -- The Emperor’s Grief: Two Mughal Tombs / Anthony Welch -- “The Eye Is Favored For Seeing The Writing’s Form”: On The Sensual And The Sensuous In Islamic Calligraphy / David J. Roxburgh -- A Book Of Kings Produced And Presented As A Treatise On Hunting / Tülay Artan -- The Soas Anvār-I Suhaylī:The Journey Of A “Reincarnated” Manuscript / Mika Natif -- Mostly Modern Miniatures: Classical Persian Painting In The Early Twentieth Century / Marianna Shreve Simpson.

Sommario/riassunto

Muqarnas is sponsored by The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. In Muqarnas articles are being published on all aspects of Islamic visual culture, historical and contemporary, as well as articles dealing with unpublished textual primary sources.