Yasser Tabbaa

Gebundenes Buch

The Production of Meaning in Islamic Architecture and Ornament

Beschreibung

This volume collects Yasser Tabbaa's investigative and interpretive articles on medieval Islamic architecture, ornament and gardens in Syria and Iraq, with comparisons to Anatolia, Egypt, North Africa and Spain, within the context of the political divisions and theological ruptures of the Islamic world between the 11th and 13th centuries.

Autor

Yasser Tabbaa was Dorothy Kayser Hohenberg Chair of Excellence in the Department of Art at the University of Memphis until his retirement in 2014. He is the author of Constructions of Power and Piety in Medieval Aleppo (Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997), The Transformation of Islamic Art during the Sunni Revival (University of Washington Press, 2001; paperback edition, 2002), Najaf: The Gate of Wisdom, in collaboration with Sabrina Mervin (UNESCO, 2014) and The Ayyubid Era: Art and Architecture in Medieval Syria with A. Moaz, V. Daiber & Z. Takeiddin (MWNF, 2015).

Produktdetails

• Collected Papers in Islamic Art
• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 536
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 173mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 1370g
• ISBN-13: 9781474482189
• ISBN-10: 147448218X
• Artikelnr.: 60686504