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Quṣayr ʻAmra : art and the Umayyad elite in late antique Syria / / Garth Fowden



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Autore: Fowden Garth Visualizza persona
Titolo: Quṣayr ʻAmra : art and the Umayyad elite in late antique Syria / / Garth Fowden Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley, Calif. : , : University of California Press, , 2004
©2004
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xxix, 390 pages) : illustrations, map
Disciplina: 751.7/3/0956959
Soggetto topico: Mural painting and decoration, Umayyad - Jordan - Foreign influences
Arabic poetry - 622-750 - History and criticism
Soggetto non controllato: abbasid
abd al malik
al azraq
al buldn
alois musil
amir
ancient art
apodyterium
arab
arabic poetry
arabic
architecture
art history
bath house
baths
captive woman
court life
dancing girls
decorative arts
desert
dynasty
femininity
frescoes
gender
hunt
hunting lodge
iconography
iran
islam
jordan
khusraw
late antiquity
middle east
monument
murals
musicians
muslim
mythology
negus
nonfiction
ode
persia
prince
princess
qusayr amra
roderic
royal court
self fashioning
shaykh musa
syria
umayyad
women
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 335-374) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Maps and Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Preface -- 1. Musil's Fairy-Tale Castle -- 2. Luxuries of the Bath -- 3. The Hunt -- 4. "O God, Bless the Amír" -- 5. The Princely Patron -- 6. Maintaining the Dynasty -- 7. The Six Kings -- 8. A Captive Sasanian Princess -- 9. Quṣayr Ἁmra Contextualized -- 10. Umayyad Self-Representation -- Epilogue -- Appendix. The Value of Arabic Literary Sources -- Bibliography -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: From 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.
Altri titoli varianti: Art and the Umayyad elite in late antique Syria
Titolo autorizzato: Qusayr 'Amra  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-282-35702-6
9786612357022
0-520-92960-8
1-59734-844-9
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910783318303321
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Serie: Transformation of the classical heritage ; ; 36.