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Book Synopsis Perspectives on Persian Painting by : Dr Barbara Brend
Download or read book Perspectives on Persian Painting written by Dr Barbara Brend and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a detailed study of the illustrations to Amir Khusrau's Khamsah, in which twenty discourses are followed by a brief parable, and four romances. Amir Khusrau (1253-1325) lived the greater part of adventurous life in Delhi; he composed in Persian, and also in Hindi. From the point of view of manuscript illustration, his most important work is his Khamsah (Quintet'). Khusrau's position as a link between cultures of Persia and India means that the early illustrated copies of the Khamsah have a particular interest. The first extant exemplar is from the Persian area in the late 14th century, but a case can be made that work was probably illustrated earlier in India.
Download or read book Ars Orientalis V3 written by Oleg Grabar and published by . This book was released on 2011-07 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributing Authors Include Richard Ettinghausen, Aschwin Lippe, Kurt Erdmann, And Many Others.
Book Synopsis Early Islamic Art and Architecture by : Jonathan M. Bloom
Download or read book Early Islamic Art and Architecture written by Jonathan M. Bloom and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume deals with the formative period of Islamic art (to c. 950), and the different approaches to studying it. Individual essays deal with architecture, ceramics, coins, textiles, and manuscripts, as well as with such broad questions as the supposed prohibition of images, and the relationships between sacred and secular art. An introductory essay sets each work in context; it is complemented by a bibliography for further reading.
Book Synopsis Sensibilities of the Islamic Mediterranean by : Robin Ostle
Download or read book Sensibilities of the Islamic Mediterranean written by Robin Ostle and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2008-07-30 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the mountains of Lebanon to the shores of Turkey and North Africa, the Islamic Mediterranean has always been a dynamic cultural hub, where the stories and passions of East and West collide. In a sweeping survey spanning the first Arabic edition of the "Thousand and One Nights" to the novels of the 20th century, Robin Ostle pours through centuries of books, art and architecture to reveal what they tell us about the changing relationship between individual and society in this distinctive culture.In pre-modern literature, individuality was expressed through a series of comic subversions which, through their resolution, ultimately strengthened the social status quo. The great 19th century travelogues represented a more transgressive exploration of the boundaries of the self. This theme was continued in the cultural forms of the 20th century, with their emphasis on self-expression and emotional liberation, something increasingly defined in opposition to the state. "Sensibilities of the Islamic Mediterranean" unravels the emotions, ideas and power relationships which make up the cultural fabric of this fascinating region.
Book Synopsis Studies in the Islamic Decorative Arts by : Robert Hillenbrand
Download or read book Studies in the Islamic Decorative Arts written by Robert Hillenbrand and published by Pindar Press. This book was released on 2019-12-31 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Islamic artists channelled their energies not into easel painting and large-scale sculpture, but rather into what Western scholars, obeying a very different hierarchy of art forms, rather disparagingly term the decorative arts or even the minor arts. In point of fact, some of the greatest masterpieces of Islamic art are in the media of ceramics, metalwork, textiles, ivory and glass. Often the images they bear express a complex set of meanings, for Islam inherited much material from the iconographic systems of earlier civilizations, notably those of the ancient Near East and of the classical world. Islam also developed its own distinctive vocabulary of signs and symbols. Accordingly, questions of iconography and meaning bulk large among the studies gathered together in the present volume. These studies, written over a period of almost thirty years, and taken from a wide variety of published sources, deal with aspects of the decorative arts from Spain to India and from the 7th to the 17th century. They focus in turn upon ceramics and metalwork; on coins, carpets and calligraphy; and on carving in wood and ivory. They are arranged under three headings. The first comprises general surveys of the field covering the content of these arts and confronting the challenges they present, such as the Islamic approach to three-dimensional sculpture. The second deals with questions of iconography and meaning, while the third comprises a series of studies devoted to specific media such as ivory, woodwork and numismatics. This volume therefore offers not only a general introduction to some of the problems posed by Islamic art, but also readings of key objects in an attempt to explore their meaning; and finally, an in-depth focus on individual objects representing specific genres and media.
Book Synopsis Israel Oriental Studies by : Joel L. Kraemer
Download or read book Israel Oriental Studies written by Joel L. Kraemer and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1993-07-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis An Historical Atlas of Islam [cartographic Material] by : William Charles Brice
Download or read book An Historical Atlas of Islam [cartographic Material] written by William Charles Brice and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1981 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dhimmis and Others written by Uri Rubin and published by Eisenbrauns. This book was released on 1997 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Islam has always had ambivalent relations with Judaism and Christianity, as also with Jews and Christians. The awkwardness of their character has been accentuated by the creation and perpetuation, on all sides, of partial and ill-intentioned images during the middle ages and by political developments in the modern period. Since the beginning of serious modern study of Islam in the west, these relations have found an important place in scholars' interest, partly because many of those in the west who have studied Islam have been Jews, with a natural attraction to an interest in those topics which affected Jews and other minorities in the Islamic environment. In this volume, we have tried to assemble a collection of papers which reflect something of the diversity of the problems offered by this range of relations. We have also attempted to reflect, in the variety of the papers and the topics discussed in them, the rich variety of approach adopted by scholars over the last century and a half of such study. Israel Oriental Studies has ceased publication with volume 20.
Book Synopsis Middle Eastern Cities by : Ira Marvin Lapidus
Download or read book Middle Eastern Cities written by Ira Marvin Lapidus and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Aspects of the Balkans: Continuity and Change by : Henrik Birnbaum
Download or read book Aspects of the Balkans: Continuity and Change written by Henrik Birnbaum and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-11-05 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "Aspects of the Balkans: Continuity and Change".
Download or read book Ex orbe religionum written by Bleeker and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Muslim Religious Architecture, 2. Development of Religious Architecture in Later Periods by : Dogan Kuban
Download or read book Muslim Religious Architecture, 2. Development of Religious Architecture in Later Periods written by Dogan Kuban and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-09-20 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Israel Oriental Studies XIII by : Kraemer
Download or read book Israel Oriental Studies XIII written by Kraemer and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-11-13 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Iran and The West written by Cyrus Ghani and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1987, this volume offers a bibliography of biographies, autobiographies and books on contemporary politics by prominent 20th century figures on the topic of Iran.
Book Synopsis SOMA 2012: Near eastern identities. The Luristan-Hamrin cultural sphere (4th-3rd millennium BC). Pottery identity as intra-societies interactions by : Luca Bombardieri
Download or read book SOMA 2012: Near eastern identities. The Luristan-Hamrin cultural sphere (4th-3rd millennium BC). Pottery identity as intra-societies interactions written by Luca Bombardieri and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Historic Cities of the Islamic World by : Clifford Edmund Bosworth
Download or read book Historic Cities of the Islamic World written by Clifford Edmund Bosworth and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 631 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains articles on historic cities of the Islamic world, ranging from West Africa to Malaysia, which over the centuries have been centres of culture and learning and of economic and commercial life, and which have contributed much to the consolidation of Islam as a faith and as a social and political institution. The articles have been taken from the second edition of the Encyclopaedia of Islam, completed in 2004, but in many cases expanded and rewritten. All have been updated to include fresh historical information, with note of contemporary social developments and population statistics. The book thus delineates the urban background of Islam has it has evolved up to the present day, highlighting the role of such great cities as Cairo, Istanbul, Baghdad and Delhi in Islamic history, and also brings them together in a rich panorama illustrating one of mankind's greatest achievements, the living organism of the city.
Book Synopsis Corpus Inscriptionum Arabicarum Palaestinae, Volume Seven: J (2) Jerusalem 1 by : Moshe Sharon
Download or read book Corpus Inscriptionum Arabicarum Palaestinae, Volume Seven: J (2) Jerusalem 1 written by Moshe Sharon and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-04-26 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The religious and strategic importance of Western Palestine in the Islamic period is clearly reflected in the hundreds of Arabic inscriptions found, the texts of which cover a variety of topics including construction, dedication, religious endowments, epitaphs, Qur'anic texts, prayers and invocations, all now assembled in this Corpus Inscriptionum Arabicarum Palaestinae (CIAP). The inscriptions are arranged according to site, and are studied in their respective topographical, historical and cultural contexts. In this way the Corpus offers more than a survey of inscriptions: it represents the epigraphical angle of the geographical history of the Holy Land under Islam.