Envisioning islamic art and architecture : essays in honor of Renata Holod / edited by David J. Roxburgh.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Roxburgh, David J., editor.

Series:

Arts and archaeology of the Islamic world ; Volume 2.

Arts and Archaeology of the Islamic World, 2213-3844 ; Volume 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islamic art.

Islamic architecture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (341 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, Massachusetts : Brill, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Envisioning Islamic Art and Architecture: Essays in Honor of Renata Holod is a collection of studies on the portable arts, arts of the book, painting, photography, and architecture spanning the medieval and modern periods and across the historical Islamic lands. The essays reflect the wide-ranging interests and diverse methodologies of Renata Holod and attend to the physical, material, and aesthetic properties of their objects, offer nuanced explanations of complex relations between objects and historical contexts, and remain critically aware of the shape of the field of Islamic art and architecture, its canonical objects, approaches, and historiographies. Essential reading for scholars working on Islam and the Islamic world in the disciplines of history of art and architecture, history, literature, and anthropology. With contributions by María Judith Feliciano, Christiane Gruber, Leslee Katrina Michelsen, Nancy Micklewright, Stephennie Mulder, Johanna Olafsdotter, Yael Rice, Cynthia Robinson, David J. Roxburgh, D. Fairchild Ruggles, Alison Mackenzie Shah, and Pushkar Sohoni.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / David J. Roxburgh

Inventing the Alhambra / D. Fairchild Ruggles

Power, Light, Intra-Confessional Discontent, and the Almoravids / Cynthia Robinson

Medieval Textiles in Iberia: Studies for a New Approach / María Judith Feliciano

Telling Tales: Investigating a Mīnāʾī Bowl / Leslee Katrina Michelsen and Johanna Olafsdotter

Seeing the Light: Enacting the Divine at Three Medieval Syrian Shrines / Stephennie Mulder

Patterns of Faith: Mosque Typologies and Sectarian Affiliation in the Kingdom of Ahmadnagar / Pushkar Sohoni

Saints, Samāʿ, and the Politics of Charisma in Late-Nineteenth-Century Hyderabad, India / Alison Mackenzie Shah

Between the Brush and the Pen: On the Intertwined Histories of Mughal Painting and Calligraphy / Yael Rice

“Many a Wish Has Turned to Dust”: Pir Budaq and the Formation of Turkmen Arts of the Book / David J. Roxburgh

The Rose of the Prophet: Floral Metaphors in Late Ottoman Devotional Art / Christiane Gruber

Picturing the “Abode of Felicity” in 1919: A Photograph Album of Istanbul / Nancy Micklewright

Bibliography / David J. Roxburgh

Index / David J. Roxburgh.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-28028-6

OCLC:

918997402

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004280281 DOI