Content and context of visual arts in the Islamic world : papers from a Colloquium in Memory of Richard Ettinghausen, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, 2-4 April 1980

xxii, 261 pages, 15 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 29 cm. Contents: Foreword / James R. McCredie Introduction / Carol Manson Bier and Priscilla P. Soucek The Nishapur metalwork : cultural interaction in early Islamic Iran / James W. Allan Observations on the iconography of the mosaics in the Great Mosque at Damascus / Klaus Brisch The draped universe of Islam / Lisa Golombek The iconography of Islamic architecture / Oleg Grabar Sa'd : content and context / Marilyn Jenkins. Technical note / Gary W. Carriveau Two illustrated manuscripts in the Malek Library, Tehran / B.W. Robinson Calligraphy and common script : epitaphs from Aswan and Akhlat / J.M. Rogers The "iconography" of the internal decoration in the mausoleum of Uljaytu at Sultaniyya / Eleanor Sims. Imperial symbolism in Mughal painting / Robert Skelton The life of the prophet : illustrated versions / Priscilla P. Soucek Representations of the Khassikiyah and the origins of Mamluk emblems / Estelle Whelan The scholar, the drinker, and the ceramic pot-painter / Marina D. Whitman.…