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200 10$aQus?ayr ?Amra$b[electronic resource] $eart and the Umayyad elite in late antique Syria /$fGarth Fowden
210   $aBerkeley, Calif. $cUniversity of California Press$dc2004
215   $a1 online resource (423 p.)
225 1 $aThe transformation of the classical heritage ;$v36
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 335-374) and index.
327   $tFront matter --$tContents --$tMaps and Illustrations --$tAbbreviations --$tPreface --$t1. Musil's Fairy-Tale Castle --$t2. Luxuries of the Bath --$t3. The Hunt --$t4. "O God, Bless the Amír" --$t5. The Princely Patron --$t6. Maintaining the Dynasty --$t7. The Six Kings --$t8. A Captive Sasanian Princess --$t9. Qu?ayr ?mra Contextualized --$t10. Umayyad Self-Representation --$tEpilogue --$tAppendix. The Value of Arabic Literary Sources --$tBibliography --$tIndex
330   $aFrom the stony desolation of Jordan's desert, it is but a step through a doorway into the bath house of the Qusayr 'Amra hunting lodge. Inside, multicolored frescoes depict scenes from courtly life and the hunt, along with musicians, dancing girls, and naked bathing women. The traveler is transported to the luxurious and erotic world of a mid-eighth-century Muslim Arab prince. For scholars, though, Qusayr 'Amra, probably painted in the 730s or' 740s, h'as proved a mirage, its concreteness dissolved by doubts about date, patron, and meaning. This is the first book-length contextualization of the mysterious monument through a compelling analysis of its iconography and of the literary sources for the Umayyad period. It illuminates not only the way of life of the early Muslim elite but also the long afterglow of late antique Syria.
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517 3 $aArt and the Umayyad elite in late antique Syria
606   $aMural painting and decoration, Umayyad$zJordan$xForeign influences
606   $aArabic poetry$y622-750$xHistory and criticism
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615  0$aArabic poetry$xHistory and criticism.
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