Making Islamic Art Studies (18 results)

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 2021 Edinburgh University Press hardcover edition. Light reading wear else very good condition. Contents: 1. Old Mosques: Destroyed, Lost and Transformed in Twentieth- and Twenty-first-century India; 2. The 'Arraf Mosque in Dhu Jibla; 3. Monumentality en Miniature: On Two Dome-shaped Carpet Weights - mir-i farsh; 4. 'The View from Above': Muslim Perceptions of the Turks of Syria and the Jazira in the Period 1070 to 1176; 5. The Multiple Faces of Restoration in the Medieval Islamic Architecture of Central Asia; 6. A Damascus Room in Los Angeles; 7. Rubbish, Recycling and Repair: Perspectives on the Portable Arts of the Islamic Middle East; 8. A Copper-alloy Plate with Architectural Imagery in Berlin . and Jerusalem?; 9. Looking Inside the Book: Doublures of the Mamluk Period; 10. Taj al-Din 'Alishah: The Reconstruction of his Mosque Complex at Tabriz; 11. Once More Cosmophilia: Facing the Truth, Later; 12. The Making, Unmaking and Making Sense of an Illustration from an Imperial Mughal Akbarnama; 13. The Use of Metals in Islamic Manuscripts; 14. Telling Stories: Artists' Books in the Collection of the British Museum; 15. The Freer Beaker in Text and Image; 16. When Muslims Died in China; 17. Abu'l-Fazl's Description of Akbar's 'House of Depiction'; 18. 'Migration Theory' in Islamic Pottery. …

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Condition: New. Explores how Islamic art and architecture were made: their materials and their social, political, economic and religious context&Uumlber den AutorrnrnProfessor Robert Hillenbrand is Professor Emeritus of Islamic Art the University of Edi.

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Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - In their own words, Jonathan Blair and Sheila Bloom espouse 'things and thinginess rather than theories and isations'. This book's practical, down-to-earth dimension, expressed in plain, simple English, runs counter to the current fashion for theoretical explanations and their accompanying jargon when exploring the world of Islamic art. Its many insights, firmly anchored in artistic practice in architecture, painting and the decorative arts, are supported by ample technical know-how. The range is wide - mosques becoming temples; how religious buildings reflect politics; Yemeni frescoes and inscriptions; domestic Syrian 18th-century ornament; Egyptian bookbinding techniques; recycling and repair in Damascene crafts; conservation versus restoration; narrative on ceramics; metalwork with architectural motifs; lost buildings reconstructed; how objects speak;Muslim burials in China; the role of migrating potters; Mughal painting; stone carpet weights; the use of metals in Islamic manuscripts, calligraphy and modern artists' books.…