Rivers of paradise : water in Islamic art and culture /
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Format: Conference Proceeding Book
Language: English
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New Haven : [Doha, Qatar] : [Richmond, Va.] : [Doha, Qatar] :
[Yale University Press ; In association with Qatar Foundation ; Virginia Commonwealth University ; Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts in Qatar,
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Call Number: NX650 .W37 R58 2009
Table of Contents:
- Foreword /
- Richard E. Toscan
- Introduction /
- Sheila Blair and Jonathan Bloom
- Gardens beneath which rivers flow : the significance of water in classical Islamic culture /
- Carole Hillenbrand
- Control and abandon : images of water in Arabic poetry and gardens /
- Yasser Tabbaa
- From the heavens and hills : the flow of water to the fruited trees and ablution fountains in the Great Mosque of Córdoba /
- D. Fairchild Ruggles
- Sip, dip, and pour : toward a typology of water vessels in Islamic art /
- Linda Komaroff
- Stones to bring rain? : magical inscriptions in linear Kufic on rock crystal amulet-seals /
- Venetia Porter
- Charity and piety : Sabil-Kuttabs and the conception of water during the Mamluk period /
- Howayda al-Harithy
- Art, infrastructure, and devotion : Ottoman water architecture /
- Walter Denny
- Water on the ground : water systems in two Ottoman Greek port cities /
- Marcus Milwright and Evanthia Baboula
- Drinking-water as message : the sabil of Muhammad 'ali Pasha in Cairo /
- Agnieszka Dobrowolska
- Far from the desert : water traditions in the South Asian landscape /
- Catherine B. Asher
- Paradise flooded : water and architecture in Bangladesh /
- Perween Hasan
- Landscape and hardscape : historical problems and contemporary solutions to the scarcity of water in the Islamic world /
- Mohammad al-Asad.