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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. 26 by 20cm., 320 pp., many drawings and black and white plates. Studies by a range of eminent experts exploring the iconography and meaning of Islamic art drawing on a range of disciplines of interpretation and containing an extensive bibliography by Professor Ernst Grube which is in itself an indispensable resource for all Islamic art historians. Seller Inventory # ABE-1679218387069
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. 320 pages, illustrations : 27 cm. 'Studies by a range of eminent experts exploring the iconography and meaning of Islamic art drawing on a range of disciplines of interpretation and containing an extensive bibliography by Professor Ernst Gruber which is in itself an indispensable resource for all Islamic art historians.' Contents: New light on Islamic iconography / Robert Hillenbrand -- Iconography in Islamic art / Ernst Grube -- Solar and celestial symbolism in medieval Islamic art / James Allan -- The Minbar of Al-Aqsa: form and function / Sylvia Auld -- Mightiness, ecstasy and control: some general features of Islamic arts / Johann-Christoph Bürgel -- A royal drinking scene from Alchi: Iranian iconography in the Western Himalayas / Finbarr B. Flood -- Early medieval Islamic court life: the evidence of the literary sources / ʻAbd al-Rahman al-Gailani -- Paradise glimpsed by the Muslim believer at prayer / Raya Y. Shani -- The iconography of the illustrated Timurid Ẓafarnāma manuscripts / Eleanor Sims -- Fire-making, and its influence on the background to some mysterious iconography in medieval Islamic art / Marian Wenzel -- A bibliography of iconography in Islamic art / Ernst J. Grube. Seller Inventory # PGALT05