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Book Iconotextual Studies in the Muslim Ideology of Umayyad Architecture and Urbanism

Download or read book Iconotextual Studies in the Muslim Ideology of Umayyad Architecture and Urbanism written by Shemuel Tamari and published by Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. This book was released on 1996 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Stylistic Origins of Umayyad Sculpture and Architectural Decoration

Download or read book The Stylistic Origins of Umayyad Sculpture and Architectural Decoration written by Rina Talgam and published by Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. This book was released on 2004 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.--Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 1996).

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    Book Details:
  • Author : Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh Kisāʼī
  • Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 9783447052429
  • Pages : 172 pages

Download or read book written by Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh Kisāʼī and published by Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. This book was released on 2005 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The superb early medieval al-Kisa'i whose millenium hidden Kitab 'aja-'ib al-Malakut has been completely uncovered by the editors who have elementarily reconstructed his hitherto unknown biography; having enlightened the real substance of Islamology. That reality is synoptically put his own written opus maius does qualitatively and quantitatively constitute the whole textbook of the earliest Judeo-Muslim authentic erudition following which the current islamology should be updated. Being a polemical compilation its proper edition has required a totally new methodology; within it only a single paradigm is presented here: "interpretive thematical codicology" that combining with the other systems substantializes the comprehensively annotative exclusive edition in its entirety.

Book Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art   Architecture  Three Volume Set

Download or read book Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art Architecture Three Volume Set written by Jonathan Bloom and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-05-14 with total page 1697 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture is the most comprehensive reference work in this complex and diverse area of art history. Built on the acclaimed scholarship of the Grove Dictionary of Art, this work offers over 1,600 up-to-date entries on Islamic art and architecture ranging from the Middle East to Central and South Asia, Africa, and Europe and spans over a thousand years of history. Recent changes in Islamic art in areas such as Afghanistan, Iran, and Iraq are elucidated here by distinguished scholars. Entries provide in-depth art historical and cultural information about dynasties, art forms, artists, architecture, rulers, monuments, archaeological sites and stylistic developments. In addition, over 500 illustrations of sculpture, mosaic, painting, ceramics, architecture, metalwork and calligraphy illuminate the rich artistic tradition of the Islamic world. With the fundamental understanding that Islamic art is not limited to a particular region, or to a defined period of time, The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture offers pathways into Islamic culture through its art.

Book Bibliography of Art and Architecture in the Islamic World  2 Vol  Set

Download or read book Bibliography of Art and Architecture in the Islamic World 2 Vol Set written by Susan Sinclair and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012 with total page 1510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the tradition and style of the acclaimed Index Islamicus, the editors have created this new Bibliography of Art and Architecture in the Islamic World. The editors have surveyed and annotated a wide range of books and articles from collected volumes and journals published in all European languages (except Turkish) between 1906 and 2011. This comprehensive bibliography is an indispensable tool for everyone involved in the study of material culture in Muslim societies.

Book Relational Iconography  Representational Culture at the Qaraquyunlu and Aqquyunlu Courts  853 1449 CE to 907 1501 CE

Download or read book Relational Iconography Representational Culture at the Qaraquyunlu and Aqquyunlu Courts 853 1449 CE to 907 1501 CE written by Georg Leube and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Relational Iconography Georg Leube engages with the courtly culture of the Qaraquyunlu and Aqquyunlu dynasties (15th century C.E.) as a key episode in Persianate and Islamicate cultural history.

Book Calligraphy and Architecture in the Muslim World

Download or read book Calligraphy and Architecture in the Muslim World written by Gharipour Mohammad Gharipour and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-30 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This major reference work covers all aspects of architectural inscriptions in the Muslim world: the artists and their patrons, what inscriptions add to architectural design, what materials were used, what their purpose was and how they infuse buildings with meaning. From Spain to China, and from the Middle Ages to our own lifetime, Islamic architecture and calligraphy are inexorably intertwined. Mosques, dervish lodges, mausolea, libraries, even baths and market places bear masterpieces of calligraphy that rival the most refined of books and scrolls.

Book The Great Mosque of Damascus

Download or read book The Great Mosque of Damascus written by Finbarr Flood and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-07-26 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focussing on the Great Mosque of Damascus, this volume discusses the scope and significance of the building campaign undertaken by the Umayyad caliph al-Walid b. ‘Abd al-Malik (86-96/705-15), and its implications for the development of early Islamic visual culture.

Book The Poetics of Arabian S  qs

Download or read book The Poetics of Arabian S qs written by Jasmine Shahin and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-11-18 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the history of Arabian sūqs from their pre-Islamic beginnings to the present. Collecting evidence from archaeological ruins, Islamic towns, modern cities, Arabic poetry, philosophical debates, political conflicts, puppet shows and the insights of modern-day market-goers, the book presents new and unforeseen interpretations of the Arabian sūq’s meaning and its transformation through time and place. The finding that such meaning is tied to ancient trade rituals, where temple and market presented a holistic socio-urban unit, re-questions some instrumental assumptions regarding the value of sūq-ness in Arabia’s everyday practices. Such a finding, which locates the fadaā/tareeq duality as a central theme in Arabia’s socio-urban discourse, emphasizes the importance of lived experiences and poetics as key sources for understanding socio-urban phenomena.

Book The Long Life of Magical Objects

Download or read book The Long Life of Magical Objects written by Allegra Iafrate and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2020-01-17 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores a series of powerful artifacts associated with King Solomon via legendary or extracanonical textual sources. Tracing their cultural resonance throughout history, art historian Allegra Iafrate delivers exciting insights into these objects and interrogates the ways in which magic manifests itself at a material level. Each chapter focuses on a different Solomonic object: a ring used to control demons; a mysterious set of bottles that constrain evil forces; an endless knot or seal with similar properties; the shamir, known for its supernatural ability to cut through stone; and a flying carpet that can bring the sitter anywhere he desires. Taken together, these chapters constitute a study on the reception of the figure of Solomon, but they are also cultural biographies of these magical objects and their inherent aesthetic, morphological, and technical qualities. Thought-provoking and engaging, Iafrate’s study shows how ancient magic artifacts live on in our imagination, in items such as Sauron’s ring of power, Aladdin’s lamp, and the magic carpet. It will appeal to historians of art, religion, folklore, and literature.

Book Index Islamicus

Download or read book Index Islamicus written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 922 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Iconotextual Studies in Mid Eastern Islamic Religious Architecture and Urbanisation in the Early Middle Ages

Download or read book Iconotextual Studies in Mid Eastern Islamic Religious Architecture and Urbanisation in the Early Middle Ages written by Shemuel Tamari and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dictionary of International Biography

Download or read book Dictionary of International Biography written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 1144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biographical record of contemporary achievement together with a key to the location of the original biographical notes.

Book Studies in Medieval Islamic Architecture

Download or read book Studies in Medieval Islamic Architecture written by Robert Hillenbrand and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first of two volumes to consider in detail the architecture of Islam, from Spain to India, from the 7th century to the present day. Hillenbrand's particular interests are Iranian buildings from the Saljuq period (11th to 12th centuries) and the Umayyad monuments in the Levant (660-750 AD). This volume considers the architecture of Cordoba in Spain, Syria, Pakistan and Britain and America and includes Islamic and Oriental art. The second volume, predominantly concerned with Iran, will be published in the autumn of 2001.

Book International Books in Print

Download or read book International Books in Print written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 1140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: