LEADER 05041nam 22013574a 450 001 996248228803316 005 20240410071206.0 010 $a1-282-35702-6 010 $a9786612357022 010 $a0-520-92960-8 010 $a1-59734-844-9 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520929609 035 $a(CKB)1000000000030708 035 $a(EBL)227319 035 $a(OCoLC)475933751 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000231826 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11947266 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000231826 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10207268 035 $a(PQKB)10308355 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000055817 035 $a(OCoLC)57516692 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse30672 035 $a(DE-B1597)520969 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520929609 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL227319 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10074090 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL235702 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC227319 035 $a(dli)HEB07962 035 $a(MiU)MIU01000000000000009613201 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000030708 100 $a20030402h20042004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aQus?ayr ?Amra $eart and the Umayyad elite in late antique Syria /$fGarth Fowden 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aBerkeley, Calif. :$cUniversity of California Press,$d2004. 210 4$aŠ2004 215 $a1 online resource (xxix, 390 pages) $cillustrations, map 225 1 $aThe transformation of the classical heritage ;$v36 311 0 $a0-520-29850-0 311 0 $a0-520-23665-3 320 $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 $aFrom the stony desolation of Jordan's desert, it is but a step through a doorway into the bath house of the Qusayr 'Amra hunting lodge. Inside, multicolored frescoes depict scenes from courtly life and the hunt, along with musicians, dancing girls, and naked bathing women. The traveler is transported to the luxurious and erotic world of a mid-eighth-century Muslim Arab prince. For scholars, though, Qusayr 'Amra, probably painted in the 730s or' 740s, h'as proved a mirage, its concreteness dissolved by doubts about date, patron, and meaning. This is the first book-length contextualization of the mysterious monument through a compelling analysis of its iconography and of the literary sources for the Umayyad period. It illuminates not only the way of life of the early Muslim elite but also the long afterglow of late antique Syria. 410 0$aTransformation of the classical heritage ;$v36. 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 610 $aabbasid. 610 $aabd al malik. 610 $aal azraq. 610 $aal buldn. 610 $aalois musil. 610 $aamir. 610 $aancient art. 610 $aapodyterium. 610 $aarab. 610 $aarabic poetry. 610 $aarabic. 610 $aarchitecture. 610 $aart history. 610 $abath house. 610 $abaths. 610 $acaptive woman. 610 $acourt life. 610 $adancing girls. 610 $adecorative arts. 610 $adesert. 610 $adynasty. 610 $afemininity. 610 $afrescoes. 610 $agender. 610 $ahunt. 610 $ahunting lodge. 610 $aiconography. 610 $airan. 610 $aislam. 610 $ajordan. 610 $akhusraw. 610 $alate antiquity. 610 $amiddle east. 610 $amonument. 610 $amurals. 610 $amusicians. 610 $amuslim. 610 $amythology. 610 $anegus. 610 $anonfiction. 610 $aode. 610 $apersia. 610 $aprince. 610 $aprincess. 610 $aqusayr amra. 610 $aroderic. 610 $aroyal court. 610 $aself fashioning. 610 $ashaykh musa. 610 $asyria. 610 $aumayyad. 610 $awomen. 615 0$aMural painting and decoration, Umayyad$xForeign influences. 615 0$aArabic poetry$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a751.7/3/0956959 700 $aFowden$b Garth$0442889 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996248228803316 996 $aQusayr 'Amra$91689543 997 $aUNISA