Envisioning Islamic art and architecture : essays in honor of Renata Holod

Envisioning Islamic art and architecture : essays in honor of Renata Holod / edited by David J. Roxburgh.

Envisioning Islamic Art and Architecture: Essays in Honor of Renata Holod is a collection of studies on the portable arts, arts of the book, painting, photography, and architecture spanning the medieval and modern periods and across the historical Islamic lands. The essays reflect the wide-ranging i...

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Other Authors: Holod, Renata (honouree.), Roxburgh, David J. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2014]
Series:Arts and archaeology of the Islamic world ; v. 2.
Subjects:
Islamic art.
Islamic architecture.
ART > History > General.
Islamic architecture
Islamic art
Festschriften
Festschriften.
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Table of Contents:
  • Inventing the Alhambra / D. Fairchild Ruggles
  • Power, light, intra-confessional discontent, and the Almoravids / Cynthia Robinson
  • Medieval textiles in Iberia: studies for a new approach / MarÍa Judith Feliciano
  • Telling tales: investigating a Mina'i bowl / Leslee Katrina Michelsen and Johanna Olafsdotter
  • Seeing the light: enacting the divine at three medieval Syrian shrines / Stephennie Mulder
  • Patterns of faith: mosque typologies and sectarian affiliation in the kingdom of Ahmadnagar / Pushkar Sohoni
  • Saints, Sama', and the politics of charisma in late-nineteenth-century Hyderabad, India / Alison Mackenzie Shah
  • Between the brush and the pen: on the intertwined histories of Mughal painting and calligraphy / Yael Rice
  • "Many a wish has turned to dust": Pir Budaq and the formation of Turkmen arts of the book / David J. Roxburgh
  • The rose of the prophet: floral metaphors in late Ottoman devotional art / Christiane Gruber
  • Picturing the "abode of Felicity" in 1919: a photograph album of Istanbul / Nancy Micklewright.

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