The Dome of the Rock and its Umayyad mosaic inscriptions / Marcus Milwright.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Milwright, Marcus, author.

Series:

Edinburgh studies in Islamic art

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Qubbat al-Ṣakhrah (Mosque : Jerusalem).

Islamic inscriptions--Jerusalem.

Islamic inscriptions.

Islamic mosaics--Jerusalem.

Islamic mosaics.

Architecture, Umayyad--Jerusalem.

Architecture, Umayyad.

Art, Umayyad--Jerusalem.

Art, Umayyad.

Middle East--Jerusalem.

Physical Description:

xiv, 298 pages, 2 folded leaves : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2016]

Summary:

The Dome of the Rock is a shrine located on the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem. When was it built? What meanings was it meant to convey to viewers at the time of its construction? These are questions that have preoccupied historians of Islamic art and architecture, and numerous interpretations of the Dome of the Rock have been proposed. Marcus Milwright returns to one of the most important pieces of evidence: the mosaic inscriptions running around the two faces of the octagonal arcade. His detailed examination of the physical characteristics, morphology and content of these inscriptions provides new evidence about the chronology the building and the iconography of the Dome of the Rock.

Contents:

The setting of the Dome of the Rock

Initial description of the mosaic inscriptions

Mosaic scripts in late antiquity

Visual sources for the mosaic script of the Dome of the Rock

Focus on details

Proposing a sequence

Symbolic dimensions of inscriptions in late antiquity and early Islam

The inscriptions of the Dome of the Rock in their historical context.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-287) and indexes.

ISBN:

9780748695607

0748695605

OCLC:

946157546