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.
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.
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).
Inhaltsangabe
Part I: Syria 1. Monuments with a Message: Propagation of Jihad under Nur al-Din 2. Survivals and Archaisms in the Architecture of Northern Syria, ca. 1080-ca. 1150 3. Circles of Power: Palace, Citadel and City in Ayyubid Aleppo 4. Dayfa Khatun: Architectural Patron and Regent Queen 5. Defending Ayyubid Aleppo: The Fortifications of al-Zahir Ghazi (1186-1216) 6. Originality and Innovation in Syrian Woodwork of the 12th and 13th Centuries Part II: Iraq 7. The Mosque of Nur al-Din in Mosul, 1170-72 8. The Resurgence of the Baghdad Caliphate (1050-1258) 9. The Politics of Patronage in Medieval Mosul: Nur al-Din, Badr al-Din, and the Question of the Sunni Revival Part III: Domes 10. The Muqarnas Dome: Its Origin and Meaning 11. The Muqarnas Domes and Portal Vaults of Cairo 12. Andalusian Roots and Abbasid Homage in the Qubbat al-Barudiyyin in Marrakesh Part IV: Writing 13. The Transformation of Arabic Writing, I. Qur'anic Calligraphy 14. The Transformation of Arabic Writing, II. The Public Text 15. Canonicity and Control: The Sociopolitical Underpinnings of Ibn Muqla's Reform Part V: Gardens 16. Typology and Hydraulics in the Medieval Islamic Garden 17. Control and Abandon: Images of Water in Arabic Gardens and Garden Poetry 18. Eternal Hunting Fields: The Frescos at Qusayr 'Amra as a Pastoralist Interpretation of the Paradise Garden Part VI: Shrines 19. Invented Pieties: The Revival and Rebuilding of Shi'ite Shrines in Contemporary Syria 20. Glorifying the Imamate: Architecture and Ritual in the Shi'i Shrines of Syria 21. The Functional Aspects of Medieval Islamic Hospitals.
Part I: Syria 1. Monuments with a Message: Propagation of Jihad under Nur al-Din 2. Survivals and Archaisms in the Architecture of Northern Syria, ca. 1080-ca. 1150 3. Circles of Power: Palace, Citadel and City in Ayyubid Aleppo 4. Dayfa Khatun: Architectural Patron and Regent Queen 5. Defending Ayyubid Aleppo: The Fortifications of al-Zahir Ghazi (1186-1216) 6. Originality and Innovation in Syrian Woodwork of the 12th and 13th Centuries Part II: Iraq 7. The Mosque of Nur al-Din in Mosul, 1170-72 8. The Resurgence of the Baghdad Caliphate (1050-1258) 9. The Politics of Patronage in Medieval Mosul: Nur al-Din, Badr al-Din, and the Question of the Sunni Revival Part III: Domes 10. The Muqarnas Dome: Its Origin and Meaning 11. The Muqarnas Domes and Portal Vaults of Cairo 12. Andalusian Roots and Abbasid Homage in the Qubbat al-Barudiyyin in Marrakesh Part IV: Writing 13. The Transformation of Arabic Writing, I. Qur'anic Calligraphy 14. The Transformation of Arabic Writing, II. The Public Text 15. Canonicity and Control: The Sociopolitical Underpinnings of Ibn Muqla's Reform Part V: Gardens 16. Typology and Hydraulics in the Medieval Islamic Garden 17. Control and Abandon: Images of Water in Arabic Gardens and Garden Poetry 18. Eternal Hunting Fields: The Frescos at Qusayr 'Amra as a Pastoralist Interpretation of the Paradise Garden Part VI: Shrines 19. Invented Pieties: The Revival and Rebuilding of Shi'ite Shrines in Contemporary Syria 20. Glorifying the Imamate: Architecture and Ritual in the Shi'i Shrines of Syria 21. The Functional Aspects of Medieval Islamic Hospitals.
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