Title & Author:

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

Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2014].
©2014

Description:

xxx, 311 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm.

Series:

Arts and archaeology of the Islamic world, 2213-3844 ; volume 2

Notes:
"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 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"--Back cover.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-296) and index.
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 Mīnāʼī 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, Samāʻ, 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.
In English, with scattered Arabic.

Summary:

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 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.

ISBN:

9789004264021 (hardback ; alk. paper)
9004264027 (hardback ; alk. paper)
(e-back ; alk. paper)
9789004280281

Subject:

Islamic art.
Islamic architecture.
Art islamique.
Architecture islamique.
Art, Medieval Islamic influences.
Art, Modern Islamic influences.
Islamisk konst.
Islamisk arkitektur.
Art, Islamic

Form/genre:

Festschriften.
Mélanges (Recueils)

Added entries:

Holod, Renata, honouree.
Roxburgh, David J., editor.
Ruggles, D. Fairchild, author.
Robinson, Cynthia, 1962- author.
Feliciano, Maria Judith, author.
Michelsen, Leslee Katrina, author.
Olafsdotter, Johanna, author.
Mulder, Stephennie F., author.
Sohoni, Pushkar, author.
Shah Mackenzie, Alison, author.
Rice, Yael, author.
Gruber, Christiane J., 1976- author.
Micklewright, Nancy, author.
Holod, Renata honouree.
Roxburgh, David J. editor, author.
Ruggles, D. Fairchild author.
Robinson, Cynthia, author.
Shah, Alison Mackenzie, author.
Arts and archaeology of the Islamic world ; v. 2.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 288972
Call No.: BIB 231069
Status: Available