Yasser Tabbaa

Production of Meaning in Islamic Architecture and Ornament (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume collects Yasser Tabbaa's investigative and interpretive articles on medieval Islamic architecture, ornament and gardens in Syria and Iraq, with comparative expansions into Anatolia, Egypt, North Africa and Spain. He examines the monuments, many of which have vanished in recent years, within the context of the political divisions and theological ruptures that characterised the Islamic world between the 11th and 13th centuries. The writings cover significant forms such as muqarnas vaulting, proportioned Qur'anic scripts and cursive public inscriptions, and monument types such as the madrasa, the hospital, the tribunal (dar al-'adl) and the citadel palace. Collectively, they present medieval Islamic architecture as a transformative process that echoes Abbasid glory and signals future developments in later Islamic architecture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. August 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474482202
• Artikelnr.: 72413643

Autorenporträt

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.