Hillenbrand, RobertBlair, SheilaBloom, Jonathan2025-04-282021Edinburgh9781474434294https://library.arce.org:82/handle/123456789/4471. Old Mosques : Destroyed, Lost and Transformed in 20th- and 21st-Century India / Catherine B. Asher 2. The 'Arraf Mosque in Dhu Jibla / Barbara Finster 3. Monumentality en Miniature : On two dome-shaped carpet weights - mir-I farsh / Kjeld von Folsach 4. 'The View from Above' : Muslim Perceptions of the Turks of Syria and the Jazira in the Period 1070 to 1176 / Carole Hillenbrand 5. The Multiple Faces of Restoration in the Medieval Islamic Architecture of Central Asia / Robert Hillenbrand 6. A Damascus Room in Los Angeles / Linda Komaroff 7. Rubbish, Recycling and Repair : Perspectives on the Portable Arts of the Islamic Middle East / Marcus Milwright 8. A Copper-Alloy Plate with Architectural Imagery in Berlin... and Jerusalem? / Lawrence Nees 9. Looking Inside the Book : Doublures of the Mamluk Period / Alison Ohta 10. Taj al-Din 'Alishah : The Reconstruction of his Mosque Complex at Tabriz / Bernard O'Kane 11. Once More Cosmophilia : Facing the Truth, Later / Simon O'Meara 12. The Making, Unmaking and Making Sense of an Illustration from an Imperial Mughal Akbarnama / Laura E. Parodi 13. The Use of Metals in Islamic Manuscripts / Cheryl Porter 14. Telling Stories : Artists' Books in the Collection of the British Museum / Venetia Porter 15. The Freer Beaker in Text and Image / Marianna Shreve Simpson 16. When Muslims Died in China / Nancy Steinhardt 17. Abu'l-Fazl's Description of Akbar's 'House of Depiction' / Wheeler M. Thackston 18. 'Migration Theory' in Islamic Pottery / Oliver Watson – Appendix: Sheila Blair and Jonathan Bloom : a Combined BibliographyIn their own words, Jonathan Bloom and Sheila Blair espouse 'things and thinginess rather than theories and isations'. Its many insights, firmly anchored in artistic practice, are supported by ample technical know-how. The range is wide - mosques becoming temples; how religious buildings reflect politics; Yemeni frescoes and inscriptions; domestic Syrian 18th-century ornament; Egyptian bookbinding techniques; recycling and repair in Damascene crafts; conservation versus restoration; narrative on ceramics; metalwork with architectural motifs; lost buildings reconstructed; how objects speak; Muslim burials in China; the role of migrating potters; Mughal painting; stone carpet weights; the use of metals in Islamic manuscripts, calligraphy and modern artists' books. This book's practical, down-to-earth dimension, expressed in plain, simple English, runs counter to the current fashion for theoretical explanations and their accompanying jargon when exploring the world of Islamic art. This bottom-up approach differs radically and refreshingly from that of much top-down contemporary scholarship. It privileges the maker rather than the patron.en-USArchitecture islamiqueIslamic artArt islamiqueIslamic architectureBook