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Islamic Art Architecture and Material Culture
Bok av Margaret Graves
Contents: Introduction (Robert Hillenbrand); I. METALWORK AND TEXTILES: The Freer Canteen: Jerusalem or Jazira? (Teresa Fitzherbert); Mamluk Textiles (Maria Sardi); The Captivating Power of Textiles (Miriam Ali-de-Unzaga); II. CERAMICS: Unravelling the Enigmatic Fourteenth-Century Mamluk and Mongol Fine Wares: How to Solve the Problem (Rosalind A. Wade Haddon); Crossing Borders: Mudejar Ceramics in Paterna (Anna McSweeney); The Aesthetics of Simulation: Architectural Mimicry on Medieval Ceramic Tabourets (Margaret S. Graves); III. THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT: A Symbolic Khassakiyya: Representations of the Palace Guard in Murals and Stucco Sculpture (Melanie Gibson); The Notion of Time and the Image of Place: Reflections on Islamic Gardens (Saeid Khaghani);The Public Realm in Central Damascus: 'Where Old and New Meet' (Rema Haddad); IV. ARTS OF THE BOOK: The Earliest Qur'anic Scripts (Marcus Fraser); The Influence of Oral Narrating Traditions on a Frequently Illustrated Thirteenth-Century Manuscript (Filiz Adiguzel Toprak); Exile and Adventure: Hassan Massoudy and Sindbad the Sailor (Sarah Sandow).