Islam Through Objects

Author : Anna Bigelow
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781350132832

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Islam through Objects by Anna Bigelow Pdf

Islam through Objects represents the state of the field of Islamic material cultural studies. With contributions from scholars of religion, anthropologists, art historians, folklorists, historians, and other disciplines, Anna Bigelow brings together a wide range of perspectives on Islamic materiality to debunk myths of Islamic aversion to material aspects of religion. Each chapter focuses on a single object in daily use by Muslims-prayer beads, coins, amulets, a cistern well, clothing, jewellery, bodily and domestic adornments-to consider both generic and particular aspects of the object in question. These narratives will engage the reader by describing and analyzing each object in terms of its provenance, materials, uses, and history, as well as the broader history, variety and uses of the object in Islamic history and cultures. Temporal, regional, and sectarian variations in the styles, uses, and theological perspectives are also considered. Framed by an introduction that assesses the various approaches to Islamic material culture in recent scholarship, Islam through Objects provides a template for the study of religion and material culture, which engages current theory, subtle and nuanced narratives, and the creative and imaginal capacities of Muslims through history.

Author : Richard J. A. McGregor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108483841

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Islam and the Devotional Object by Richard J. A. McGregor Pdf

A new history of Islamic practice told through the aesthetic reception of medieval religious objects.

Author : Margaret S. Graves
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780190695927

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Arts of Allusion by Margaret S. Graves Pdf

The art of the object reached unparalleled heights in the medieval Islamic world, yet the intellectual dimensions of ceramics, metalwares, and other plastic arts in this milieu have not always been acknowledged. Arts of Allusion reveals the object as a crucial site where pre-modern craftsmen of the eastern Mediterranean and Persianate realms engaged in fertile dialogue with poetry, literature, painting, and, perhaps most strikingly, architecture. Lanterns fashioned after miniature shrines, incense burners in the form of domed monuments, earthenware jars articulated with arches and windows, inkwells that allude to tents: through close studies of objects from the ninth to the thirteenth centuries, this book reveals that allusions to architecture abound across media in the portable arts of the medieval Islamic world. Arts of Allusion draws upon a broad range of material evidence as well as medieval texts to locate its subjects in a cultural landscape where the material, visual, and verbal realms were intertwined. Moving far beyond the initial identification of architectural types with their miniature counterparts in the plastic arts, Margaret Graves develops a series of new frameworks for exploring the intelligent art of the allusive object. These address materiality, representation, and perception, and examine contemporary literary and poetic paradigms of metaphor, description, and indirect reference as tools for approaching the plastic arts. Arguing for the role of the intellect in the applied arts and for the communicative potential of ornament, Arts of Allusion asserts the reinstatement of craftsmanship into Islamic intellectual history.

Author : Leor Halevi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0231188676

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Modern Things on Trial by Leor Halevi Pdf

Leor Halevi tells the story of the Islamic trials of technological and commercial innovations of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Shedding light on culture, commerce, and consumption in Cairo and other colonial cities, Modern Things on Trial is a groundbreaking account of Islam's material transformation in a globalizing era.

Author : Richard J. A. McGregor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Islam
ISBN : 1108705219

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Islam and the Devotional Object by Richard J. A. McGregor Pdf

"In this book, Richard J. A. McGregor offers a history of Islamic practice through the aesthetic reception of medieval religious objects. Elaborate parades in Cairo and Damascus included decorated objects of great value, destined for Mecca and Medina. Among these were the precious dress sewn yearly for the Ka'ba, and large colorful sedans mounted on camels, which mysteriously completed the Hajj without carrying a single passenger. Along with the brisk trade in Islamic relics, these objects and the variety of contested meanings attached to them, constituted material practices of religion that persisted into the colonial era, but were suppressed in the twentieth century. McGregor here recovers the biographies of religious objects, including relics, banners, public texts, and coverings for the Ka'ba. Reconstructing the premodern visual culture of Islamic Egypt and Syria, he follows the shifting meanings attached to objects of devotion, as well as the contingent nature of religious practice and experience"--

Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780870991110

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Islamic Art in the Metropolitan Museum of Art by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) Pdf

Author : Isabelle Dolezalek,Mattia Guidetti
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000519174

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Rediscovering Objects from Islamic Lands in Enlightenment Europe by Isabelle Dolezalek,Mattia Guidetti Pdf

This book argues that the provenance of early modern and medieval objects from Islamic lands was largely forgotten until the "long" eighteenth century, when the first efforts were made to reconnect them with the historical contexts in which they were produced. For the first time, these Islamicate objects were read, studied and classified – and given a new place in history. Freed by scientific interest, they were used in new ways and found new homes, including in museums. More generally, the process of "rediscovery" opened up the prehistory of the discipline of Islamic art history and had a significant impact on conceptions of cultural boundaries, differences and identity. The book will be of interest to scholars working in the history of art, the art of the Islamic world, early modern history and art historiography.

Author : Mona Jalhami,Murdo MacLeod,Idries Trevathan,Mona Mansour
Publisher : Hirmer Verlag GmbH
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3777435937

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The Art of Orientation by Mona Jalhami,Murdo MacLeod,Idries Trevathan,Mona Mansour Pdf

The Art of Orientation celebrates the origins, meanings, and functions of the mosque throughout the world using a careful selection of one hundred and twenty-five artifacts--including intricately designed pulpits, prayer rugs, lamps, and manuscripts. Tracing the evolution of the mosque from the Prophet's humble mud-brick structure in Medina to the imposing stone assemblies of Cairo and Istanbul, an interdisciplinary group of leading Arab and international authors present a personal, insightful, and accessible survey of Islamic masterpieces past and present.

Author : DK
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 659 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780744031041

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The Islam Book by DK Pdf

Learn about the history and traditions of the Islamic faith in The Islam Book. Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple and easy to follow format. Learn about Islam in this overview guide to the subject, brilliant for novices looking to find out more and experts wishing to refresh their knowledge alike! The Islam Book brings a fresh and vibrant take on the topic through eye-catching graphics and diagrams to immerse yourself in. This captivating book will broaden your understanding of Islam, with: - Images of Islamic art, architecture, calligraphy, and historical artifacts - Packed with facts, charts, timelines and graphs to help explain core concepts - A visual approach to big subjects with striking illustrations and graphics throughout - Straightforward text makes topics accessible for people at any level of understanding The Islam Book is a comprehensive guide essential to understanding the world’s fastest-growing religion - aimed at self-educators after a trustworthy account and religious studies students wanting to gain an overview. Here you’ll find clear factual writing offering insight into terms like Sharia law, the Caliphate, and jihad; Sunni and Shia divisions; and Sufi poetry and music. Your Islam Questions, Simply Explained This essential guide to Islam covers every aspect of the Muslim faith and its history – from the life of the Prophet Muhammad and the teachings of the Koran to Islam in the 21st century. If you thought it was difficult to learn about one of the world’s major religions, The Islam Book presents key information in an easy to follow layout. Find out about modern issues such as fundamentalism, the work of peaceful traditionalists, modernizers, and women's rights campaigners, as well as the central tenets of Islam, such as prayer, fasting, and pilgrimage. The Big Ideas Series With millions of copies sold worldwide, The Islam Book is part of the award-winning Big Ideas series from DK. The series uses striking graphics along with engaging writing, making big topics easy to understand.

Author : Venetia Porter,Ladan Akbarnia,Fahmida Suleman,Zeina Klink-Hoppe,Amandine Merat
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780500480403

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The Islamic World by Venetia Porter,Ladan Akbarnia,Fahmida Suleman,Zeina Klink-Hoppe,Amandine Merat Pdf

This lavishly illustrated history explores the Islamic world, through superb art objects and cultural artifacts dating from the seventh century to the present. This illustrated introduction offers a fresh approach to the history of the Islamic world from its origins to the present day. Told in six chapters, arranged both chronologically and thematically, and richly enhanced with outstanding images, it provides an illuminating insight into the material culture produced from West Africa to Southeast Asia through art and artifacts, people and places. From pre-Islamic works that provided a foundation for the arts of Islam to masterpieces produced under the great empires and objects that continue to be made today, this expansive survey traces the development of civilizations at the forefront of philosophical and scientific ideas, artistic and literary developments, and technological innovations, exploring a wealth of cultural treasures along the way. Texts are accompanied by a wide variety of objects, including architectural decoration, ceramics, jewellery, metalwork, calligraphy, textiles, musical instruments, coins, illustrated manuscripts, and modern and contemporary art, all of which shed new light on the Islamic world both past and present. This book will inspire and inform anyone interested in one of the most influential and diverse cultures of the world. Table of Contents Introduction • 1. A history of histories • 2. Belief and practice • 3. Interconnected worlds (750–1500) • 4. The age of empires (1500–1900) • 5. Literary and musical traditions • 6. The modern world • 7. Glossary • 8. Selected bibliography • 9. Acknowledgements • 10. Credits • 11. Index

Author : Finbarr Barry Flood
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781400833245

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Objects of Translation by Finbarr Barry Flood Pdf

Objects of Translation offers a nuanced approach to the entanglements of medieval elites in the regions that today comprise Afghanistan, Pakistan, and north India. The book--which ranges in time from the early eighth to the early thirteenth centuries--challenges existing narratives that cast the period as one of enduring hostility between monolithic "Hindu" and "Muslim" cultures. These narratives of conflict have generally depended upon premodern texts for their understanding of the past. By contrast, this book considers the role of material culture and highlights how objects such as coins, dress, monuments, paintings, and sculptures mediated diverse modes of encounter during a critical but neglected period in South Asian history. The book explores modes of circulation--among them looting, gifting, and trade--through which artisans and artifacts traveled, remapping cultural boundaries usually imagined as stable and static. It analyzes the relationship between mobility and practices of cultural translation, and the role of both in the emergence of complex transcultural identities. Among the subjects discussed are the rendering of Arabic sacred texts in Sanskrit on Indian coins, the adoption of Turko-Persian dress by Buddhist rulers, the work of Indian stone masons in Afghanistan, and the incorporation of carvings from Hindu and Jain temples in early Indian mosques. Objects of Translation draws upon contemporary theories of cosmopolitanism and globalization to argue for radically new approaches to the cultural geography of premodern South Asia and the Islamic world.

Author : Mikhail Borisovich Piotrovskiĭ,John Vrieze
Publisher : Ben Uri Gallery & Museum
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Art, Islamic
ISBN : UOM:39015050465171

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Earthly Beauty, Heavenly Art by Mikhail Borisovich Piotrovskiĭ,John Vrieze Pdf

This stunning book, by using art as a medium, aims to give a unique insight into Islam. It contains over 300 Islamic art works of supreme beauty and quality brought together from the most distinguished international collections. By looking at various themes such as The Palace, The Mosque and The Paradise, the reader will be led through a myriad of jeweled objects, splendid ceramics and glassware, elegant Qur'ans, textiles and prayer rugs. The fascinating text deals with various fundamental facets of Islamic art, while every object in the book is accompanied by a detailed description written by a detailed description written by the curators of the museums and collections to which they belong.

Author : Venetia Porter,Mariam Rosser-Owen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-29
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780857721884

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Metalwork and Material Culture in the Islamic World by Venetia Porter,Mariam Rosser-Owen Pdf

The material and visual culture of the Islamic World casts vast arcs through space and time, and encompasses a huge range of artefacts and monuments from the minute to the grandiose, from ceramic pots to the great mosques. Here, Venetia Porter and Mariam Rosser-Owen assemble leading experts in the field to examine both the objects themselves and the ways in which they reflect their historical, cultural and economic contexts. With a focus on metalwork, this volume includes an important new study of Mosul metalwork and presents recent discoveries in the fields of Fatimid, Mamluk and Qajar metalwork. By examining architecture, ceramics, ivories and textiles, seventeenth-century Iranian painting and contemporary art, the book explores a wide range of artistic production and historical periods from the Umayyad caliphate to the modern Middle East. This rich and detailed volume makes a significant contribution to the fields of Art History, Architecture and Islamic Studies, bringing new objects to light, and shedding new light on old objects.

Author : Habibuddin Ahmed
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015066730709

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The Nature of Time and Consciousness in Islam by Habibuddin Ahmed Pdf

Author : Katherine Anne Paul
Publisher : Newark Museum
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 0692183108

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Wondrous Worlds by Katherine Anne Paul Pdf

From the Introduction: The intercontinental reach of Dar al-Islam, or the Islamic world, today touches all continents. This catalogue (like the exhibition it enhances) embraces this global reality to take the most expansive and inclusive vision of how many art practices have historically intersected with Islam and how they continue to do so. Through key works of art, this publication examines trade relationships between regions as well as intercultural exchanges within smaller geographic areas. It discusses a range of interactions between practitioners of many religions who supplied art within political entities, both of Islamic cultural majority and Islamic cultural minority--over centuries. Works in this publication hail from what is present-day Afghanistan, Algeria, Burkina Faso, China, Egypt, France, Indonesia, India, Iran, Iraq, Malaysia, Morocco, Myanmar, the Netherlands, Nigeria, Pakistan, Togo, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Sudan, Syria, the United States of America, Uzbekistan and Zanzibar. Works illustrated and discussed here were created as recently as 2016 but also as early as the ninth century. Unlike countless other catalogues of Islamic art that have organized works of art by region, time period, medium (ink, silk, gold, etc.), or visual subject matter (pattern, figures, etc.), this publication introduces material through the window of the Five Pillars of Islam. Foundational to the life of devout Muslims are the five pillars, called arkan in Arabic. They are the profession of faith (shahada), daily prayers (salat), charity (zakat), ritual fasting for Ramadan (sawm) and pilgrimage to Mecca (hajj). These pillars are illustrated with objects related to their activity. After this basic introduction, works in this catalogue are organized into five contexts that intentionally resonate with the five pillars. The five contexts that frame the discussion of artwork in this catalogue are Elegant Epigraphy: Writing as Art; Internationalism: Now & Then; Hospitality: Fasting, Feasting & Fun; Architecture & Its Offspring and Modest Beauty: Dress, Fashion & Faith. These five contexts are intended to encourage readers to consider both what unites these works of art and what differentiates them.