Byzantium and Islam : age of transition,7th-9th century /

Byzantium and Islam : age of transition,7th-9th century /

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Corporate Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

Other Authors: Ratliff, Brandie., Evans, Helen C.

Format: Book

Language: English

Published: New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2012.

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Art, Byzantine > Exhibitions.
Islamic art > Exhibitions.
Byzantine Empire > Civilization > Islamic influences > Exhibitions.

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Call Number: ( F )N6250 .B965 2012

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Table of Contents:
  • Byzantium
  • Byzantium and Islam : age of transition (7th-9th century) / Helen C. Evans
  • Gerasa / Lisa R. Brody
  • Heraclius / Helen C. Evans
  • Classical survival / Helen C. Evans
  • Sassanian expansion to the Mediterranean / Alexander Nagel
  • Christian communities during the early Islamic centuries / Brandie Ratliff
  • Sinai from the second to the ninth century : continuity in the midst of change / Hieronomonk Justin of Sinai
  • Icons from the Monastery of Saint Catherine at Mount Sinai / Kathleen Corrigan
  • Arab Christians / Sidney H. Griffith
  • The Syriac Church / Nancy Khalek
  • Coptic Christianity / Elizabeth S. Bolman
  • The White Monastery federation and the angelic life / Elizabeth S. Bolman
  • The Coptic monastery of Bawit / Dominique Bénazeth
  • To travel to the holy / Brandie Ratliff
  • The Stylites of Syria / Brandie Ratliff
  • Mosaics during the Byzantine and early Islamic periods / Robert Schick
  • Jews and Judaism between Byzantium and Islam / Steven Fine
  • Christian mosaics in early Islamic Jordan and Palestine : a case of regional iconoclasm / Finbarr B. Flood
  • Commerce
  • "Ornaments of excellence" from "the miserable gains of commerce" : luxury art and Byzantine culture / Thelma K. Thomas
  • Arab-Byzantine coins : money as cultural continuity / Clive Foss
  • Weights and measures from Byzantium and Islam / Stefan Heidemann
  • Silks / Thelma K. Thomas
  • Dress styles from Syria to Libya / Cäcilia Fluck
  • Materials and techniques of late antique and early Islamic textiles found in Egypt / Kathrin Colburn
  • Animal motifs / Mina Moraitou
  • Vine rinceaux / Gabriele Mietke
  • Inscribe textiles / Cäcilia Fluck
  • Inscribed objects / Robert Schick
  • Jewelry : ideologies and transformation / Stephen R. Zwirn
  • Women / Mina Moraitou
  • Islam
  • Country estates, material culture, and the celebration of princely life : Islamic art and the secular domain / Anna Ballian
  • Qasr-al-Mshatta / Anna Ballian
  • Al-Fudayn / Anna Ballian
  • Al-Qastal / Anna Ballian
  • An Abbasid residence at al-Humayma / Rebecca M. Foote
  • Ornamental motifs in early Islamic art / Mina Moraitou
  • Fustar / Iman R. Abdulfatah
  • Secular inscriptions / Mina Moraitou
  • Faith, religion, and the material culture of early Islam / Finbarr B. Flood
  • Religious inscriptions in early Islamic art / Linda Komaroff
  • The Qur'an / Finbarr B. Flood.