Islamic art, architecture and material culture : new perspectives /
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Format: Book
Language: English
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Oxford :
Archaeopress,
2012.
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BAR International Series ;
2436.
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Call Number: NK1270 .I85 2012
Table of Contents:
- •Editor's note •Introduction / Robert Hillenbrand •Metalwork and textiles. The Freer canteen: Jerusalem or Jazira? / Teresa Fitzherbert •Mamluk textiles / Maria Sardi •The captivating power of textiles / Miriam Ali-de-Unzaga •Ceramics. Unravelling the enigmatic fourteenth-century Mamluk and Mongol fine wares: how to solve the problem / Rosalind A. Wad Haddon •Crossing borders: Mudéjar ceramics in Paterna / Anna McSweeney •The aesthetics of simulation: architeactural mimicry on medieval ceramic tabourets / Margaret S. Graves •The built environment. A symbolic Khassakiyya: representations of the palace guard in murals and stucco sculpture / Melanie Gibson •The notion of time and the image of place: reflections on Islamic gardens / Saeid Khaghani •The public realm in central Damascus: 'where old and new meet' / Rema Haddad •Arts of the book. The earliest Qurʼanic scripts / Marcus Fraser •The influence of oral narrating traditions on a frequently illustrated thirteenth-century manuscript / Filiz Adigüzel Toprak •Exile and adventure: Hassan Massoudy and Sindbad the Sailor / Sarah Sandow.