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Author : MARCUS. MILWRIGHT
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1463239009
Author : Margaret S. Graves,Alex Dika Seggerman
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-19
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780253060365
The Islamic world's artistic traditions experienced profound transformation in the 19th century as rapidly developing technologies and globalizing markets ushered in drastic changes in technique, style, and content. Despite the importance and ingenuity of these developments, the 19th century remains a gap in the history of Islamic art. To fill this opening in art historical scholarship, Making Modernity in the Islamic Mediterranean charts transformations in image-making, architecture, and craft production in the Islamic world from Fez to Istanbul. Contributors focus on the shifting methods of production, reproduction, circulation, and exchange artists faced as they worked in fields such as photography, weaving, design, metalwork, ceramics, and even transportation. Covering a range of media and a wide geographical spread, Making Modernity in the Islamic Mediterranean reveals how 19th-century artists in the Middle East and North Africa reckoned with new tools, materials, and tastes from local perspectives.
Author : Mariam Rosser-Owen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789004469204
In Articulating the Ḥijāba, Mariam Rosser-Owen analyses for the first time the artistic and cultural patronage of the ‘Amirid regents of the last Cordoban Umayyad caliph, Hisham II, a period rarely covered in the historiography of al-Andalus. Al-Mansur, the founder of this dynasty, is usually considered a usurper of caliphal authority, who pursued military victory at the expense of the transcendental achievements of the first two caliphs. But he also commissioned a vast extension to the Great Mosque of Cordoba, founded a palatine city, conducted skilled diplomatic relations, patronised a circle of court poets, and owned some of the most spectacular objects to survive from al-Andalus, in ivory and marble. This study presents the evidence for a reconsideration of this period.
Author : Abd al-Razzaq Moaz, , , , , , , , ,Yasser Tabbaa,Zina Takieddine,Verena Daiber,Dina Bakkour,Wa'al Hafian,Haytham Hasan,Balázs Mayor,Benjamin Michaudel
Publisher : Museum With No Frontiers, MWNF (Museum Ohne Grenzen)
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Art
ISBN : 9783902782175
This new MWNF Travel Book was conceived not long before the war started. All texts refer to the pre-war situation and are our expression of hope that Syria, a land that witnessed the evolution of civilisation since the beginnings of human history, may soon become a place of peace and the driving force behind a new and peaceful beginning for the entire region. Bilad al-Sham testifies to a thorough and strategic programme of urban reconstruction and reunification during the 12th and 13th centuries. Amidst a period of fragmentation, visionary leadership came with the Atabeg Nur al-Din Zangi. He revived Syria’s cities as safe havens to restore order. His most agile Kurdish general, Salah al-Din (Saladin), assumed power after he died and unified Egypt and Sham into one force capable of re-conquering Jerusalem from the Crusaders. The Ayyubid Empire flourished and continued the policy of patronage. Though short-lived, this era held long-lasting resonance for the region. Its recognisable architectural aesthetic – austere, yet robust and perfected ‒ survived until modern times. The Ayyubid Era: Art and Architecture in Medieval Syria describes eight thematic Itineraries including, among others, the cities of Damascus, Bosra, Homs, Hama, Aleppo and Raqqa.
Author : Idries Trevathan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2024-03-29
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781003854364
Mosque examines the history, culture, evolution and functions of the Muslim house of worship through the prism of its artistic objects and architectural elements. Contributors present a range of elements, from dome to mihrab, to mosque furniture including lamps, prayer rugs and Qur’an stands. In addition, the book draws attention to the importance of mosque heritage through special projects and initiatives that study, preserve and revitalize the traditional arts of the mosque. This unique book brings together prominent architects, art historians, artists, historians and curators to explore innovative approaches towards the study of mosques through the presentation of original research and insights about mosque-related cultural objects. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the art and culture of the Muslim world.
Author : Urbain Vermeulen,Daniel De Smet
Publisher : Peeters Publishers
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Ayyubids
ISBN : 9068316834
Each volume deals with a wide variety of scholarly subjects, all revolving around the central theme of Syro-Egypt's high and late medieval history. Topics dealt with include archaeology, architecture, codicology, economic, political, and religious history, as well as belles-lettres.
Author : Susan Sinclair
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 1508 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789047412076
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.
Author : Doris Behrens-Abouseif
Publisher : V&R unipress GmbH
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9783899719154
Based on the conference "The Arts of the Mamluks in Egypt and Syria" held at SOAS in 2009.
Author : Johannes Kalter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Art
ISBN : OCLC:901467350
Author : Arezou Azad
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780191510694
This book is about a sacred place called Balkh, known to the ancient Greeks as Bactra. Located in the north of today's Afghanistan, along the silk road, Balkh was holy to many. The Prophet Zoroaster is rumoured to have died here, and during late antiquity, Balkh was the home of the Naw Bahār, a famed Buddhist temple and monastery. By the tenth century, Balkh had become a critical centre of Islamic learning and early poetry in the New Persian language that grew after the Islamic conquests and continues to be spoken in Iran, Afghanistan and parts of Central Asia today. In this book, Arezou Azad provides the first in-depth study of the sacred sites and landscape of medieval Balkh, which continues to exemplify age-old sanctity in the Persian-speaking world and the eastern lands of Islam generally. Azad focuses on the five centuries from the Islamic conquests in the eighth century to just before the arrival of the Mongols in the thirteenth century, the crucial period in the emergence of Perso-Islamic historiography and Islamic legal thought. The book traces the development of 'sacred landscape', the notion that a place has a sensory meaning, as distinct from a purely topographical space. This opens up new possibilities for our understanding of Islamisation in the eastern Islamic lands, and specifically the transition from Buddhism to Islam. Azad offers a new look at the medieval local history of Balkh, the Faḍā"il-i Balkh, and analyses its creation of a sacred landscape for Balkh. In doing so, she provides a compelling example of how the sacredness of a place is perpetuated through narratives, irrespective of the dominant religion or religious strand of the time.
Author : Sara Verskin
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110596588
Barren Women is the first scholarly book to explore the ramifications of being infertile in the medieval Arab-Islamic world. Through an examination of legal texts, medical treatises, and works of religious preaching, Sara Verskin illuminates how attitudes toward mixed-gender interactions; legal theories pertaining to marriage, divorce, and inheritance; and scientific theories of reproduction contoured the intellectual and social landscape infertile women had to navigate. In so doing, she highlights underappreciated vulnerabilities and opportunities for women’s autonomy within the system of Islamic family law, and explores the diverse marketplace of medical ideas in the medieval world and the perceived connection between women’s health practices and religious heterodoxy. Featuring copious translations of primary sources and minimal theoretical jargon, Barren Women provides a multidimensional perspective on the experience of infertility, while also enhancing our understanding of institutions and modes of thought which played significant roles in shaping women’s lives more broadly. This monograph has been awarded the annual BRAIS – De Gruyter Prize in the Study of Islam and the Muslim World.
Author : Omid Ghaemmaghami
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004413153
In Encounters with the Hidden Imam in Early and Pre-Modern Twelver Shīʿī Islam, Omid Ghaemmaghami traces the history of one of the core ideas that animate and form the highly influential and instrumental belief in the Hidden Imam, the central figure of Twelver Shīʿī messianic expectation.
Author : Steven Judd,Jens Scheiner
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004345201
This volume offers seven new studies on Ibn ʿAsākir and his Taʾrīkh madīnat Dimashq that range from analyses of specific biographical entries to studies on the later use of this work.
Author : Michal Biran,Jonathan Brack,Francesca Fiaschetti
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520298750
During the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, Chinggis Khan and his heirs established the largest contiguous empire in the history of the world, extending from Korea to Hungary and from Iraq, Tibet, and Burma to Siberia. Ruling over roughly two thirds of the Old World, the Mongol Empire enabled people, ideas, and objects to traverse immense geographical and cultural boundaries. Along the Silk Roads in Mongol Eurasia reveals the individual stories of three key groups of people—military commanders, merchants, and intellectuals—from across Eurasia. These annotated biographies bring to the fore a compelling picture of the Mongol Empire from a wide range of historical sources in multiple languages, providing important insights into a period unique for its rapid and far-reaching transformations. Read together or separately, they offer the perfect starting point for any discussion of the Mongol Empire’s impact on China, the Muslim world, and the West and illustrate the scale, diversity, and creativity of the cross-cultural exchange along the continental and maritime Silk Roads. Features and Benefits: Synthesizes historical information from Chinese, Arabic, Persian, and Latin sources that are otherwise inaccessible to English-speaking audiences. Presents in an accessible manner individual life stories that serve as a springboard for discussing themes such as military expansion, cross-cultural contacts, migration, conversion, gender, diplomacy, transregional commercial networks, and more. Each chapter includes a bibliography to assist students and instructors seeking to further explore the individuals and topics discussed. Informative maps, images, and tables throughout the volume supplement each biography.
Author : Konrad Hirschler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Manuscripts, Arabic
ISBN : 1474451594
