Gazing at Mecca and Medina : premodern representations of the Haramayn / edited by Mounia Chekhab-Abudaya.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chekhab-Abudaya, Mounia, editor.

E.J. Brill (Firm)

Series:

Arts and archaeology of the Islamic world ; http://id.loc.gov/resources/hubs/5ff5169f-5030-8bb1-5591-4e19dd98cc44 volume 23

Arts and archaeology of the Islamic world ; volume 23

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages in art.

Mecca (Saudi Arabia)--In art.

Mecca (Saudi Arabia).

Medina (Saudi Arabia)--In art.

Medina (Saudi Arabia).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 265 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color)

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2025]

Contents:

Introduction / Mounia Chekhab-Abudaya

"The neighbours of [God's] messenger deserve to be honoured and endorsed" : a letter roll from the Medinan notables to Sultan Süleymān (TSMA E. 7750) / Sabiha Göloğlu and Guy Burak

Ziyāra to Medina : study of a certificate depicting the Prophet's mosque / Mounia Chekhab-Abudaya and Sergio Carro Martín

Representations of pilgrims at the Holy Sites of Mecca and Medina in Futūḥ al-Ḥaramayn manuscripts / Marika Sardar

Mecca in Acehnese poetry and drawing / Nurul Iman Rusli

Sarajevo paintings of Mecca and Medina / Haris Dervišević

Shiʻi and Sufi paths of pilgrimage and salvation : study of a scroll in the Aga Khan Museum / Deniz Beyazıt

Laylīand the Kaʻba, or, Finding love at the heart of Islam : representing al-Bayt in Persian painting / Nicoletta Fazio

Ut ekphrasis pictura : when words take shape in Sir John Chardin's drawings of Muhammad's tomb in Mecca / Avinoam Shalem.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Leiden, Netherlands Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 22, 2025).

Other Format:

Print version: Gazing at Mecca and Medina

Print version:

ISBN:

9004731954

9789004731950

Publisher Number:

40032932854

CIPO000237195

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.