ISBN |
9927108788 (Qatar Museums : softcover) |
9789927108785 (Qatar Museums : softcover) |
9788836651436 (Silvana Editoriale) |
Corporate Author |
Museum of Islamic Art (Dawḥah, Qatar) |
Title |
Baghdad : eye's delight |
Publisher |
Doha : Qatar Museums, Milano : Silvana Editoriale, 2022 |
Physical desc. |
301 pages ; illustrations (chiefly colour), maps ; 29 cm. |
Note |
Catalogue of an exhibition held 22 October 2022 to 25 January 2023, at the Museum of Islamic art, Doha, Qatar. |
CB illustrations: p. 153, fig. 2 (Is 1431, f. 10r); p. 189 (Ar 4237). |
Exhibited works: Ar 4237; Is 1614.1 & Is 1614.2. |
Bibliography etc. |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Introduction / Julia Gonnella -- Baghdad: city of peace. The making of the 'round' city of Baghdad: on Abbasid glory, the sense of order, and urban surveillance / Avinoam Shalem -- Baghdad lives on in poetry and prose / Beatrice Gründler -- Baghdad under Buyid, Seljuq and Mongol rule / Vanessa van Renterghem -- Urban strategies in Baghdad: reviewing a century of socio-urban schemes (1880-1980) / Caecilia Pieri -- Baghdad under King Faisal II: a mecca for international architects / Pedro Azara -- Palimpsestic urbanism: glimpses of post-World War II Baghdad / Amin Alsaden -- Visions for the future: Iraqi architects of Baghdad / Reem Aboughazala and Sheikha Aljohara Al Thani -- Baghdad: city of palaces. Builders of glory: the lost palaces of the Abbasid dynasty / Thomas Leisten -- 'And the eyes gaze, roaming in a brilliant place': behind the walls of Abbasid palaces / Simone Struth -- Dress to impress: fashion at the early Abbasid court / Tara Desjardins -- The palaces of Baghdad during the 19th and 20th centuries / Ihsan Fethi -- From slave to queen: the story of al-Khayzuran / Nicoletta Fazio and Simone Struth -- Baghdad: city of knowledge. 'You have wisdom that made life continue': searching for knowledge in Baghdad / Nicoletta Fazio -- The translation movement in Abbasid Baghdad / Kevin T. van Bladel -- Book culture and manuscript production in Baghdad: from the Mongols to the Ottomans / Massumeh Farhad and Simon Rettig -- Baghdad and its historians / Jens Scheiner -- Books, libraries, al-Mutanabbi Street / Wassilena Sekulova -- Baghdad: city of markets and commerce. Baghdad and the markets / Hugh Kennedy -- Basra, gateway to the Indian Ocean from the 10th to the 20th century / Andrew Petersen -- Between the desert and the sown: the canals of Baghdad / Magnus T. Bernhardsson -- Modern Baghdad and the art of infrastructure / Peter H. Christensen -- Abbasid gold: textiles and jewellery / Tara Desjardins -- Baghdad: city of the people. 'New York on the Tigris': demography, society and daily life in Baghdad / Mounia Chekhab-Abudaya -- Baghdad at the crossroads of musics from the Arab and Near Eastern worlds / Véronique Rieffel -- The Arabic free verse poets: a Baghdadi avant-garde literary movement in the 20th century / Shathil Nawaf Taqa -- Whose modern Baghdad? artistic depictions of city life in the mid-20th century / Sarah Johnson -- Eyewitness in Iraq: photography of everyday life / Giles M. Hudson. |
Corporate name |
Museum of Islamic Art (Dawḥah, Qatar) -- Exhibitions |
Subject |
Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- Ar 4237 |
Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- Is 1431 |
Islamic art -- Exhibitions |
Islamic illumination of books and manuscripts -- Exhibitions |
Baghdad (Iraq) -- Civilization -- Exhibitions |
Baghdad (Iraq) -- History -- Exhibitions |
Baghdad (Iraq) -- Intellectual life -- Exhibitions |
Baghdad (Iraq) -- In art -- Exhibitions |
Added name(s) |
Gonnella, Julia |
Added name(s) - Corporate |
Qatar Museums Authority |