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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.
- 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:
- 1 online resource (317 pages).
- 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:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Series Editor’s Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Notes for the Reader
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER 1 The Setting of the Dome of the Rock
- CHAPTER 2 Initial Description of the Mosaic Inscriptions
- CHAPTER 3 Mosaic Scripts in Late Antiquity
- CHAPTER 4 Visual Sources for the Mosaic Script of the Dome of the Rock
- CHAPTER 5 Focus on Details
- CHAPTER 6 Proposing a Sequence
- CHAPTER 7 Symbolic Dimensions of Inscriptions in Late Antiquity and Early Islam
- CHAPTER 8 The Inscriptions of the Dome of the Rock in their Historical Context
- CONCLUSION
- Bibliography
- Illustration Acknowledgements
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-287) and indexes.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4744-6045-3
- 1-4744-6044-5
- OCLC:
- 1301550241
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