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The transformation of Islamic art during the Sunni revival / Yasser Tabbaa.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tabbaa, Yasser, 1948-
- Series:
- Publications on the Near East, University of Washington.
- Publications on the Near East
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architecture, Medieval--Middle East.
- Architecture, Medieval.
- Decoration and ornament, Architectural--Middle East.
- Decoration and ornament, Architectural.
- Decoration and ornament, Medieval--Middle East.
- Decoration and ornament, Medieval.
- Islamic architecture--Middle East.
- Islamic architecture.
- Islamic decoration and ornament--Middle East.
- Islamic decoration and ornament.
- Middle East.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 210 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Seattle ; London : University of Washington Press, 2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Ultimately, the forms and themes described in this book shaped the development of Mamluk architecture in Egypt and Syria, and by extension, the entire course of North African and Andalusian architecture as well."--Jacket.
- "The transformation of Islamic architecture and ornament during the eleventh and twelfth centuries signaled profound cultural changes in the Islamic world. Yasser Tabbaa explores with exemplary lucidity the geometric techniques that facilitated this transformation, and investigates the cultural processes by which meaning was produced within the new forms. Iran, Iraq, and Syria saw the development of proportional calligraphy, vegetal and geometric arabesque, muqarnas (stalactite) vaulting, and other devices that became defining features of medieval Islamic architecture.
- Contents:
- 1. The Sunni Revival
- 2. The Transformation of Qur'anic Writing
- 3. The Public Text
- 4. The Girih Mode: Vegetal and Geometric Arabesque
- 5. Muqarnas Vaulting and Ash'ari Occasionalism
- 6. Stone Muqarnas and Other Special Devices
- 7. The Mediation of Symbolic Forms.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780295803937
- 0295803932
- OCLC:
- 930704155
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