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Age of transition : Byzantine culture in the Islamic world / edited by Helen C. Evans.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Metropolitan Museum of Art symposia
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art Symposia
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art, Byzantine--Congresses.
- Art, Byzantine.
- Art, Byzantine--Influence--Congresses.
- Islamic art.
- History.
- Civilization.
- Art, Byzantine--Influence.
- Byzantine Empire--Civilization--Islamic influences--Congresses.
- Byzantine Empire.
- Byzantine Empire--History--527-1081--Congresses.
- Islamic art--Congresses.
- Civilization--Islamic influences.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 159 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.
- Distribution:
- New Haven : Distributed by Yale University Press.
- Other Title:
- Byzantine culture in the Islamic world
- Place of Publication:
- New York : The Metropolitan Museum of Art, [2015]
- Summary:
- "In 2012 the Metropolitan Museum of Art presented Byzantium and Islam: Age of Transition, a groundbreaking exhibition that explored the transformations and continuities in the Byzantine Empire from the 7th to the 9th century. During this time of historic upheaval, Christian and Jewish communities encountered the world of Islam, resulting in unprecedented cross-cultural exchange. The catalogue for Byzantium and Islam received the 2014 World Book Award as the best new book on Islamic studies, presented by the Islamic Republic of Iran's Ministry of Culture and Religious Guidance. This new volume expands upon the subject, bringing together eleven papers by internationally distinguished scholars delivered in symposia and Scholars' Days during the exhibition, with a new introduction by Helen C. Evans. These writings provide new information about the impact of Byzantine culture, both Christian and Jewish, during the development and early years of Islamic rule in the eastern Mediterranean and across North Africa, and reconsider traditional concepts about the origin of Islamic art." -- Publisher's website.
- Contents:
- Introduction / Helen C. Evans
- Collecting Christianity on the Nile: J. Pierpont Morgan and The Metropolitan Museum of Art / Lyle Humphrey
- The Gerasa City mosaic: history and treatment at the Yale University Art Gallery / Lisa R. Brody and Carol Snow
- Art and assimilation: the floor mosaics from the Synagogue at Hammam Lif / Edward Bleiberg
- When is a menorah "Jewish"?: on the complexities of a symbol during the Age of Transition / Steven Fine
- Untidy history: reassessing communal boundaries in light of the Cairo Geniza documents / Arnold E. Franklin
- The transmission of images in the Mediterranean / Annie Montgomery Labatt
- The icons of Sinai: continuity at a time of controversy / Hieromonk Justin of Sinai
- Muslim, Jewish, and Christian traditions in the art of 7th-century Jerusalem / Lawrence Nees
- Qasr al-Mshatta and the structure of late Roman and early Islamic fac̦ades / Claus-Peter Haase
- The destruction of images in 8th-century Palestine / Robert Schick
- The origins of musical notation in the Abrahamic religious traditions / Alan Gampel.
- Notes:
- This publication includes all essays presented at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in the following programs: Sunday at the Met, March 18, 2012; Perspectives on Byzantium and Islam: A Symposium, March 20, 2012; Floor Mosaics in the Late Antique Mediterranean: A Kallinikeion Colloquium in Byzantine Studies Symposium, May 11, 2012; A Scholars Day Workshop: Collecting Byzantine and Islamic Art, June 4, 2012.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9781588395597
- 1588395596
- 9780300211115
- 0300211112
- OCLC:
- 898114278
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