Rivers of Paradise: Water in Islamic Art and Culture (The Biennial Hamad bin Khalifa Symposium on Islamic Art) - Hardcover

Blair, Sheila S.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300158998 ISBN 13: 9780300158991

Publisher: Yale University Press, 2009

Synopsis

For millennia the collection, distribution, and symbolism of water have played pivotal roles in the lands where Islam has flourished. This book is the first to address this important subject.

 

A diverse spectrum of scholars covers a wide range of topics: from the revelation of Islam in the 7th century to today’s conservation and development issues, from watering oases in the Moroccan desert to the flooded plains of Bengal. Copiously illustrated with beautiful color photographs and newly drawn plans and maps, this book  will provoke readers to appreciate and acknowledge the essential, if often invisible and transitory, roles that water played in the arts of the Islamic lands and beyond.

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About the Author:

Sheila S. Blair and Jonathan M. Bloom have shared the Norma Jean Calderwood University Professorship in Islamic and Asian Art at Boston College since 2000 and the Hamad bin Khalifa Endowed Chair of Islamic Art at Virginia Commonwealth University since 2006. Their publications include Islam: A Thousand Years of Faith and Power, The Art and Architecture of Islam, and The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture.

About this edition

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0300158998
• ISBN 13: 9780300158991
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 384
• Editor: Bloom Jonathan M.