Oleg Grabar

Early Islamic Art, 650-1100 (eBook, ePUB)

Constructing the Study of Islamic Art, Volume I

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This is the first in a set of four volumes of studies by Oleg Grabar. The articles included represent major contributions to the understanding of the formative centuries of Islamic art, focusing on the Umayyad and Fatimid dynasties in greater Syria and in Egypt, and on the Mediterranean or Iranian antecedents of early Islamic art. Historical, cultu

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 356
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. April 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000939316
• Artikelnr.: 67843790

Autorenporträt

Oleg Grabar is Professor Emeritus in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, USA, and Aga Khan Professor Emeritus of Islamic Art and Architecture at Harvard University, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface
Introduction. Part I Origins and Context: Islamic art and Byzantium
Islam and iconoclasm
Upon reading al-Azraqi
The iconography of Islamic architecture
Art and architecture and the Qur'an. Part 2 Secular Culture under the Umayyads: Sondages à Khirbat el-Minyeh
Umayyad 'Palace' and the 'Abbasid Revolution'
Notes sur les cérémonies Umayyades
The date and meaning of Mshatta
La place de Qusayr 'Amrah dans l'art profane du Haut Moyen Age
L'art Omeyyade en Syrie, source de l'art islamique
Umayyad palaces reconsidered. Part 3 Fatimid Egypt and the Muslim West: Imperial and urban art in Islam: the subject-matter of Fatimid art
Fatimid art, precursor or culmination
Notes sur le mihrab de la Grande Mosquée de Cordoue
Two paradoxes in the Islamic art of the Spanish peninsula
Qu'est-ce que l'art Fatimide. Part 4 The Muslim East: Sarvistan: a note on Sasanian places
Notes on the decorative composition of a bowl from northeastern Iran
A 10th-century source for architecture. Index.