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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.
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 Necipoglu 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.
Contenu
Volume I. From the Prophet to the Mongols
A. Introduction to the Two Volumes of A Companion to Islamic Art and Architecture
B. The Early Caliphates, Umayyads, and end of Late Antiquity (650-750)
The Material Culture of pre- and early Islamic Arabia
Barbara Finster
The Formation of Religious and Caliphal Identity in the Umayyad Period: The Evidence of the Coinage
Luke Treadwell
The Early Qur'an and the Sacred Art of Late Antiquity
Alain George
Sacred Spaces in Early Islam
Mattia Guidetti
C. Abbasids and the Universal Caliphate (750-900)
The Origins of Islamic Urbanism: The Royal City in the Umayyad and Abbasid Periods
Alastair Northedge
Samarra and Abbasid Ornament
Marcus Milwright
China among Equals: The China-Abbasid Ceramics Trade
Hsueh-man Shen
D. Fragmentation and the Rival Caliphates of Cordoba, Cairo, and Baghdad (900- 1050)
The Three Caliphates, a Comparative Approach
Glaire D. Anderson and Jennifer Pruitt
Early Islam on the East African Coast
Mark Horton
Textiles and Identity
Jochen Sokoly
E. "City States" and the Later Baghdad Caliphate (1050-1250)
The Resurgence of the Baghdad Caliphate
Yasser Tabbaa
Turko-Persian Empires between Anatolia and India
Howard Crane and Lorenz Korn
Bridging Seas of Sand and Water: The Berber Dynasties of the Islamic Far West
Abigail Balbale
Sicily and the Staging of Multiculturalism
Lev Kapitaikin
Transculturation in the Eastern Mediterranean
Scott Redford and Eva Hoffman
Patronage and the Idea of an Urban Bourgeoisie
Anna Contadini
The Social and Economic Life of Metalwork
James Allan and Ruba Kana'an
Ceramics and Circulation
Oliver Watson
Figural Ornament in Medieval Islamic Art
Oya Pancaroglu
Medieval Islamic Amulets, Talismans and Magic
Venetia Porter, Liana Saif, and Emilie Savage-Smith
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)
Architecture and Court Cultures of the Fourteenth Century
Bernard O'Kane
Islamic Architecture and Ornament in China
Nancy S. Steinhardt
Chinese and Turko-Mongol Elements in Ilkhanid and Timurid Arts
Part 1
Yuka Kadoi
Part 2.
Tomoko Masuya
Persianate Arts of the Book in Iran and Central Asia
David J. Roxburgh
Diversification of Qur'an Manuscripts from Spain to China
Priscilla Soucek
Locating the Alhambra: A Fourteenth-Century "Islamic" Palace and its "Western" Contexts
Cynthia Robinson
Architectural Patronage and the Rise of the Ottomans
Zeynep Yurekli
Islam beyond Empires: Mosques and Islamic Landscapes in…