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Fruit of knowledge, wheel of learning: essays in honour of Robert Hillenbrand

Fruit of knowledge, wheel of learning: essays in honour of Robert Hillenbrand
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ISBN 190994260X (hardcover)
9781909942608 (hardcover)
Title Fruit of knowledge, wheel of learning : essays in honour of Robert Hillenbrand / edited by Melanie Gibson
Publisher London : Ginko, 2022
Physical desc. 286 pages ; illustrations (chiefly color), maps, plans ; 27 cm.
Note Accompanying volume (catalogued separately): Fruit of knowledge, wheel of learning : essays in honour of Carole Hillenbrand / edited by Ali Ansari.
CB illustrations: p. 114, fig. 3 (Per 124, f. 242a).
Bibliography etc. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Foreword / Melanie Gibson and Ali Ansari -- Robert Hillenbrand: an appreciation / Melanie Gibson -- Robert Hillenbrand: publications -- A builder of mosques: the projects of al-Walid I, from Sanaa to Homs / Alain George -- Back to Tulul al-Ukhaydir / Barbara Finster -- Twin minarets in the architecture of Iran / Lorenz Korn -- Memorial for a memorial: the Mashhad of Imam ʿAwn al-Din and the destruction of medieval monuments in Mosul by ISIS / Richard P. McClary -- David Talbot Rice and Persian art history / Yuka Kadoi -- Beyond the beholder's share: painting as process / Margaret S. Graves -- Blurred boundaries: interactions between royal ateliers and commercial workshops in the Persianate world / Udayan Daniel Ghose -- Some new uses of the Geniza mercantile letter: on the materiality of writing in the Indian Ocean world / Elizabeth Lambourn -- Beyond the Taklamakan: the origins and stylistic development of Qurʼan manuscripts in China / Marcus Fraser -- Syrian nilotics and the history of silver inlay in the Near East / James Allan -- An Ayyubid-era figural ivory: a sculptural miniature / Julian Raby -- 'Healing for what is in the breasts': ceramic breastfeeding figures from the medieval Islamic world / Melanie Gibson -- Chinese porcelains from the Ardabil Shrine: collecting and display in Iran / Linda Komaroff.
Person as subject Hillenbrand, Robert
Subject Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- Per 124
Islamic art
Islamic art and symbolism
Islamic illumination of books and manuscripts
Islamic calligraphy
Islamic art objects
Islamic architecture
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