A Companion to Islamic Art and Architecture

The two-volume Companion to Islamic Art and Architecture bridges the gap between monograph and survey text by providing a new level of access and interpretation to Islamic art. The more than 50 newly commissioned essays revisit canonical topics, and include original approaches and scholarship on neglected aspects of the field.

• This two-volume Companion showcases more than 50 specially commissioned essays and an introduction that survey Islamic art and architecture in all its traditional grandeur

• Essays are organized according to a new chronological-geographical paradigm that remaps the unprecedented expansion of the field and reflects the nuances of major artistic and political developments during the 1400-year span

• The Companion represents recent developments in the field, and encourages future horizons by commissioning innovative essays that provide fresh perspectives on canonical subjects, such as early Islamic art, sacred spaces, palaces, urbanism, ornament, arts of the book, and the portable arts while introducing others that have been previously neglected, including unexplored geographies and periods, transregional connectivities, talismans and magic, consumption and networks of portability, museums and collecting, and contemporary art worlds; the essays entail strong comparative and historiographic dimensions

• The volumes are accompanied by a map, and each subsection is preceded by a brief outline of the main cultural and historical developments during the period in question

• The volumes include periods and regions typically excluded from survey books including modern and contemporary art-architecture; China, Indonesia, Sub-Saharan Africa, Sicily, the New World (Americas)

Auteur

Finbarr Barry Flood is William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of the Humanities at the Institute of Fine Arts and Department of Art History, New York University. He publishes on late antiquity, Islamic architectural history and historiography, transcultural dimensions of Islamic art, image theory, museology, and Orientalism. His books include The Great Mosque of Damascus: Studies on the Makings of an Umayyad Visual Culture (2000), and Objects of Translation: Material Culture and Medieval "Hindu-Muslim" Encounter, (2009), awarded the 2011 Ananda K. Coomaraswamy Prize of the Association for Asian Studies. Gülru Necipolu is Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Art at the Department of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University. She publishes on architecture and architectural practice, aesthetics of ornament and figural representation, cross-cultural exchanges, and Islamic art historiography. Her books include Architecture, Ceremonial and Power: The Topkapi Palace (1991); The Topkapi Scroll, Geometry and Ornament in Islamic Architecture (1995) which won the Albert Hourani and Spiro Kostoff awards; and The Age of Sinan: Architectural Culture in the Ottoman Empire (2005), winner of the Fuat Köprülü award and the Albert Hourani honorable mention award. She edits the journal Muqarnas and its Supplements.

Résumé
The two-volume Companion to Islamic Art and Architecture bridges the gap between monograph and survey text by providing a new level of access and interpretation to Islamic art. The more than 50 newly commissioned essays revisit canonical topics, and include original approaches and scholarship on neglected aspects of the field.

• This two-volume Companion showcases more than 50 specially commissioned essays and an introduction that survey Islamic art and architecture in all its traditional grandeur
• Essays are organized according to a new chronological-geographical paradigm that remaps the unprecedented expansion of the field and reflects the nuances of major artistic and political developments during the 1400-year span
• The Companion represents recent developments in the field, and encourages future horizons by commissioning innovative essays that provide fresh perspectives on canonical subjects, such as early Islamic art, sacred spaces, palaces, urbanism, ornament, arts of the book, and the portable arts while introducing others that have been previously neglected, including unexplored geographies and periods, transregional connectivities, talismans and magic, consumption and networks of portability, museums and collecting, and contemporary art worlds; the essays entail strong comparative and historiographic dimensions
• The volumes are accompanied by a map, and each subsection is preceded by a brief outline of the main cultural and historical developments during the period in question
• The volumes include periods and regions typically excluded from survey books including modern and contemporary art-architecture; China, Indonesia, Sub-Saharan Africa, Sicily, the New World (Americas)

Contenu
Volume I. From the Prophet to the Mongols

A. Introduction to the Two Volumes of A Companion to Islamic Art and Architecture

1. Frameworks of Islamic Art and Architecture: Concepts, Approaches and Historiographies
   Finbarr B. Flood and Gülru Necipolu

B. The Early Caliphates, Umayyads, and end of Late Antiquity (650-750)

2. The Material Culture of pre- and early Islamic Arabia
   Barbara Finster

3. The Formation of Religious and Caliphal Identity in the Umayyad Period: The Evidence of the Coinage
   Luke Treadwell

4. The Early Qur'an and the Sacred Art of Late Antiquity
   Alain George

5. Sacred Spaces in Early Islam
   Mattia Guidetti

C. Abbasids and the Universal Caliphate (750-900)

6. The Origins of Islamic Urbanism: The Royal City in the Umayyad and Abbasid Periods
   Alastair Northedge

7. Samarra and Abbasid Ornament
   Marcus Milwright

8. China among Equals: The China-Abbasid Ceramics Trade
   Hsueh-man Shen

D. Fragmentation and the Rival Caliphates of Cordoba, Cairo, and Baghdad (900- 1050)

9. The Three Caliphates, a Comparative Approach
   Glaire D. Anderson and Jennifer Pruitt

10. Early Islam on the East African Coast
    Mark Horton

11. Textiles and Identity
    Jochen Sokoly

E. City States and the Later Baghdad Caliphate (1050-1250)

12. The Resurgence of the Baghdad Caliphate
    Yasser Tabbaa

13. Turko-Persian Empires between Anatolia and India
    Howard Crane and Lorenz Korn

14. Bridging Seas of Sand and Water: The Berber Dynasties of the Islamic Far West
    Abigail Balbale

15. Sicily and the Staging of Multiculturalism
    Lev Kapitaikin

16. Transculturation in the Eastern Mediterranean
    Scott Redford and Eva Hoffman

17. Patronage and the Idea of an Urban Bourgeoisie
    Anna Contadini

18. The Social and Economic Life of Metalwork
    James Allan and Ruba Kana'an

19. Ceramics and Circulation
    Oliver Watson

20. Figural Ornament in Medieval Islamic Art
    Oya Pancarolu

21. Medieval Islamic Amulets, Talismans and Magic
    Venetia Porter, Liana Saif, and Emilie Savage-Smith

22. The Discovery and Rediscovery of the Medieval Islamic Object
    Avinoam Shalem

Volume II: From the Mongols to Modernism

A. Global Empires and the World-System (1250-1450)

23. Architecture and Court Cultures of the Fourteenth Century
    Bernard O'Kane

24. Islamic Architecture and Ornament in China
    Nancy S. Steinhardt

25. Chinese and Turko-Mongol Elements in Ilkhanid and Timurid Arts
    Part 1
    Yuka Kadoi

Part 2.
Tomoko Masuya

26. Persianate Arts of the Book in Iran and Central Asia
    David J. Roxburgh

27. Diversification of Qur'an Manuscripts from Spain to China
    Priscilla Soucek

28. Locating the Alhambra: A Fourteenth-Century Islamic Palace and its Western Contexts
    Cynthia Robinson

29. Architectural Patronage and the Rise of the Ottomans
    Zeynep Yurekli

30. Islam beyond Empires: Mosques and Islamic Landscapes in India and the India…