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Dome of the Rock and its Umayyad Mosaic Inscriptions

Author : Marcus Milwright
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474460445
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Dome of the Rock and its Umayyad Mosaic Inscriptions written by Marcus Milwright and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dome of the Rock is a shrine located on the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem. When was it built? What meanings was it meant to convey to viewers at the time of its construction? These are questions that have preoccupied historians of Islamic art and architecture, and numerous interpretations of the Dome of the Rock have been proposed. Marcus Milwright returns to one of the most important pieces of evidence: the mosaic inscriptions running around the two faces of the octagonal arcade. His detailed examination of the physical characteristics, morphology and content of these inscriptions provides new evidence about the chronology the building and the iconography of the Dome of the Rock.

Dome of the Rock and its Umayyad Mosaic Inscriptions

Author : Milwright Marcus Milwright
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474460453
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Dome of the Rock and its Umayyad Mosaic Inscriptions written by Milwright Marcus Milwright and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-01 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Located on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, the Dome of the Rock was constructed at the end of the seventh century by order of caliph 'Abd al-Malik. This seminal structure has been much studied but no definitive interpretation yet exists of the meanings conveyed by the Dome at the time of its completion. The recovery of meaning is complicated by the paucity of primary written sources relating to the construction phases of the building and the motivations of its patron. This book concentrates on the most important surviving primary text, the long mosaic inscription running around the interior. Comprising a dedication and date (72/691-92) and material of a religious nature, the mosaic inscription provides vital evidence for the reconstruction of the meanings and functions of the Dome of the Rock. The detailed study of the mosaics helps to place them in the context of Late Antique monumental writing, particularly in Greek. The book makes use of contemporary Islamic coins, graffiti, and other inscribed objects in order to examine the Dome of the Rock in the relation to the ideological concerns of the Umayyad elite during and after the second Civil War.

Mosaics in the Medieval World

Author : Liz James
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108508596
Total Pages : 1748 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book Mosaics in the Medieval World written by Liz James and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-05 with total page 1748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Liz James offers a comprehensive history of wall mosaics produced in the European and Islamic middle ages. Taking into account a wide range of issues, including style and iconography, technique and material, and function and patronage, she examines mosaics within their historical context. She asks why the mosaic was such a popular medium and considers how mosaics work as historical 'documents' that tell us about attitudes and beliefs in the medieval world. The book is divided into two part. Part I explores the technical aspects of mosaics, including glass production, labour and materials, and costs. In Part II, James provides a chronological history of mosaics, charting the low and high points of mosaic art up until its abrupt end in the late middle ages. Written in a clear and engaging style, her book will serve as an essential resource for scholars and students of medieval mosaics.

Inscribing Texts in Byzantium

Author : Marc D. Lauxtermann
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100003223X
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inscribing Texts in Byzantium written by Marc D. Lauxtermann and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-02-05 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In spite of the striking abundance of extant primary material, Byzantine epigraphy remains uncharted territory. The volume of the Proceedings of the 49th SPBS Spring Symposium aims to promote the field of Byzantine epigraphy as a whole, and topics and subjects covered include: Byzantine attitudes towards the inscribed word, the questions of continuity and transformation, the context and function of epigraphic evidence, the levels of formality and authority, the material aspect of writing, and the verbal, visual and symbolic meaning of inscribed texts. The collection is intended as a valuable scholarly resource presenting and examining a substantial quantity of diverse epigraphic material, and outlining the chronological development of epigraphic habits, and of individual epigraphic genres in Byzantium. The contributors also discuss the methodological questions of collecting, presenting and interpreting the most representative Byzantine inscriptional material, and addressing epigraphic material to make it relevant to a wider scholarly community.

Jerusalem and Other Holy Places as Foci of Multireligious and Ideological Confrontation

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004437215
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Jerusalem and Other Holy Places as Foci of Multireligious and Ideological Confrontation written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-12-07 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jerusalem and Other Holy Places as Foci of Multireligious and Ideological Confrontation demonstrates the variety in the study of holy places, as well as the flexibility of geographic and historical aspects of holiness.

The Umayyad World

Author : Andrew Marsham
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317430050
Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book The Umayyad World written by Andrew Marsham and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-25 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Umayyad World encompasses the archaeology, history, art, and architecture of the Umayyad era (644–750 CE). This era was formative both for world history and for the history of Islam. Subjects covered in detail in this collection include regions conquered in Umayyad times, ethnic and religious identity among the conquerors, political thought and culture, administration and the law, art and architecture, the history of religion, pilgrimage and the Qur’an, and violence and rebellion. Close attention is paid to new methods of analysis and interpretation, including source critical studies of the historiography and inter-disciplinary approaches combining literary sources and material evidence. Scholars of Islamic history, archaeologists, and researchers interested in the Umayyad Caliphate, its context, and infl uence on the wider world, will find much to enjoy in this volume.

Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History Volume 15 Thematic Essays (600-1600)

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004423702
Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History Volume 15 Thematic Essays (600-1600) written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-04-28 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christian-Muslim Relations, Volume 15, Thematic Essays (600-1600) is a further volume in a general history of relations between the two faiths from the 7th century to the early 20th century. The chapters within it illustrate the range, complexity, and dynamics of interaction between the two faiths during the first thousand years of encounter. All chapters primarily draw upon entries found in volumes 1-7 of Christian-Muslim Relations. They explore tropes of perception, image and judgement that each religious community held in respect to the other through these centuries, and discuss issues and topics that occupied Christians and Muslims in their interaction. The first millennium sets the scene for the modern era and our understandings of contemporary relations and issues. Contributors are Mark Beaumont, Clinton Bennett, David Bertaina, Ulisse Ceceni, David Bryan Cook, Martha Frederiks, Ayşe İçöz, Sandra Keating, James Harry Morris, Nicholas Morton, Gordon Nickel, Juan Pedro Monferrer Sala, Tom Papademetriou, Gabriel Said Reynolds, Christian Sahner, Mark N. Swanson, Mourad Takawi, Luke Yarbrough.

The Dome of the Rock

Author : Professor Emeritus of Islamic Art and Architecture Oleg Grabar
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674023137
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Book Synopsis The Dome of the Rock by : Professor Emeritus of Islamic Art and Architecture Oleg Grabar

Download or read book The Dome of the Rock written by Professor Emeritus of Islamic Art and Architecture Oleg Grabar and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2006-10-30 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dome of the Rock was fully restored in the last half-century, it was built during the reign of Herod.

Muslims

Author : Teresa Bernheimer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315414759
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book Muslims written by Teresa Bernheimer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Muslims: Their Religious Beliefs and Practices offers a survey of Islamic history and thought from the formative period of the religion to the contemporary period. It examines the unique elements which have combined to form Islam, in particular, the Qurʾān and perceptions of the Prophet Muḥammad, and traces the ways in which these ideas have interacted to influence Islam’s path to the present. Combining core source materials with coverage of current scholarship and of recent events in the Islamic world, Bernheimer and Rippin introduce this hugely significant religion, including alternative visions of Islam found in Shi’ism and Sufism, in a succinct, challenging, and refreshing way. The improved and expanded fifth edition is updated throughout and includes new textboxes. With detailed illustrations and a new companion website, Muslims is the ideal introduction for students who wish to explore the key issues of Muslims, from the Qurʾān to Islamic feminism, to issues of identity, Islamophobia, and modern visions of Islam.

Architecture of Anxiety, Body Politics and the Formation of Islamic Architecture

Author : Heba Mostafa
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004690182
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Architecture of Anxiety, Body Politics and the Formation of Islamic Architecture written by Heba Mostafa and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-03-04 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Structured as five microhistories c. 632-705, this book offers a counternarrative for the formation of Islamic architecture and the Islamic state. It adopts a novel periodization informed by moments of historical violence and anxiety around caliphal identities in flux, animating histories of the minbar, throne, and maqsura as a principal nexus for navigating this anxiety. It expands outward to re-assess the mosque and palace with a focus on the Qubbat al-Khadraʾ and the Dar al-Imara in Kufa. It culminates in a reading of the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem as a site where eschatological anxieties and political survival converge.

Building the Caliphate

Author : Jennifer A. Pruitt
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 030024682X
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Building the Caliphate written by Jennifer A. Pruitt and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-01 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting exploration of how the Fatimid dynasty carefully orchestrated an architectural program that proclaimed their legitimacy This groundbreaking study investigates the early architecture of the Fatimids, an Ismaili Shi‘i Muslim dynasty that dominated the Mediterranean world from the 10th to the 12th century. This period, considered a golden age of multicultural and interfaith tolerance, witnessed the construction of iconic structures, including Cairo’s al-Azhar and al-Hakim mosques and crucial renovations to Jerusalem’s Dome of the Rock and Aqsa Mosque. However, it also featured large-scale destruction of churches under the notorious reign of al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, most notably the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem. Jennifer A. Pruitt offers a new interpretation of these and other key moments in the history of Islamic architecture, using newly available medieval primary sources by Ismaili writers and rarely considered Arabic Christian sources. Building the Caliphate contextualizes early Fatimid architecture within the wider Mediterranean and Islamic world and demonstrates how rulers manipulated architectural form and urban topographies to express political legitimacy on a global stage.

The Inscriptions in the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem. A Symbol of Early Islam

Author : Evin Demir
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3346248356
Total Pages : 7 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (462 download)

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Download or read book The Inscriptions in the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem. A Symbol of Early Islam written by Evin Demir and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2020-09-17 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2017 in the subject Theology - Islamic theology, grade: 1,3, erg International School - Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, language: English, abstract: The work focuses on the Dome of the Rock on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. The author focuses on the significance of the building as a symbol of early Islam in a recently conquered city.

The Caucasian Archaeology of the Holy Land

Author : Yana Tchekhanovets
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004365559
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Book Synopsis The Caucasian Archaeology of the Holy Land by : Yana Tchekhanovets

Download or read book The Caucasian Archaeology of the Holy Land written by Yana Tchekhanovets and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-05-07 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Caucasian Archaeology of the Holy Land investigates the complete corpus of available literary, epigraphic and archaeological evidence of the Armenian, Georgian and Caucasian Albanian Christian communities’ activity in the Holy Land during the Byzantine and the Early Islamic periods. This book presents the first integrated approach to a wide variety of literary sources and archaeological evidence, previously unpublished or revised. The study explores the place of each of these Caucasian communities in ancient Palestine through a synthesis of literary and material evidence and seeks to understand the interrelations between them and the influence they had on the national churches of the Caucasus.

Art Appreciation

Author : Deborah Gustlin
Publisher : Cognella Academic Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781516503438
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Art Appreciation written by Deborah Gustlin and published by Cognella Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2017-08-18 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creative Art: Methods and Materials educates readers about a variety of art methods and the ways different civilizations have used them in artistic expression. Each of the fourteen chapters is designed around a specific art method and material, and includes examples of art works and the artists who created them. Students learn about bronze casting, stone carving, clay sculpture, woodcuts and posters, glass work, and installation art. Each method is matched to artists both ancient and modern. Rather than adhering to a standard approach that focuses on white, male, European artists, the book broadens the student's perspective by including often overlooked female artists. Global in approach and comprehensive in coverage of arts forms, representations, and styles throughout history, Creative Art has been developed for sixteen-week courses in art appreciation, or introductory survey courses in art history.

The Crucible of Islam

Author : G. W. Bowersock
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674978218
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)

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Download or read book The Crucible of Islam written by G. W. Bowersock and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-10 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Little is known about Arabia in the sixth century, yet from this distant time and place emerged a faith and an empire that stretched from the Iberian peninsula to India. Today, Muslims account for nearly a quarter of the global population. A renowned classicist, G. W. Bowersock seeks to illuminate this obscure and dynamic period in the history of Islam—exploring why arid Arabia proved to be such fertile ground for Muhammad’s prophetic message, and why that message spread so quickly to the wider world. The Crucible of Islam offers a compelling explanation of how one of the world’s great religions took shape. “A remarkable work of scholarship.” —Wall Street Journal “A little book of explosive originality and penetrating judgment... The joy of reading this account of the background and emergence of early Islam is the knowledge that Bowersock has built it from solid stones... A masterpiece of the historian’s craft.” —Peter Brown, New York Review of Books

Calligraphy and Architecture in the Muslim World

Author : Gharipour Mohammad Gharipour
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 147446842X
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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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.

The Topkapi Scroll

Author : Gülru Necipoğlu
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 0892363355
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (923 download)

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Download or read book The Topkapi Scroll written by Gülru Necipoğlu and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 1996-03-01 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since precious few architectural drawings and no theoretical treatises on architecture remain from the premodern Islamic world, the Timurid pattern scroll in the collection of the Topkapi Palace Museum Library is an exceedingly rich and valuable source of information. In the course of her in-depth analysis of this scroll dating from the late fifteenth or early sixteenth century, Gülru Necipoğlu throws new light on the conceptualization, recording, and transmission of architectural design in the Islamic world between the tenth and sixteenth centuries. Her text has particularly far-reaching implications for recent discussions on vision, subjectivity, and the semiotics of abstract representation. She also compares the Islamic understanding of geometry with that found in medieval Western art, making this book particularly valuable for all historians and critics of architecture. The scroll, with its 114 individual geometric patterns for wall surfaces and vaulting, is reproduced entirely in color in this elegant, large-format volume. An extensive catalogue includes illustrations showing the underlying geometries (in the form of incised “dead” drawings) from which the individual patterns are generated. An essay by Mohammad al-Asad discusses the geometry of the muqarnas and demonstrates by means of CAD drawings how one of the scroll’s patterns could be used co design a three-dimensional vault.