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Sifting sands, reading signs: studies in honour of Professor Géza Fehérvári

Sifting sands, reading signs: studies in honour of Professor Géza Fehérvári
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ISBN 0955026601 (pbk.)
9780955026607 (pbk.)
Title Sifting sands, reading signs : studies in honour of Professor Géza Fehérvári / edited by Patricia L. Baker and Barbara Brend
Publisher London : Furnace Publishing, 2006
Physical desc. xxi, 249 p., 16 p. of plates ; ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.
Note Festschrift honouring Géza Fehérvári
Bibliography etc. Includes bibliographical references
Contents An appreciation of Professor Géza Fehérvári / Patricia L. Baker. -- Beauty in the eyes of al-Ghazali / Wijdan Ali. -- Timur's Qur'an: a reappraisal / Sheila Blair and Jonathan M. Bloom. -- A Khamsah of Nizami of 1420--a stage on two journeys / Barbara Brend. -- Kashf al-Asrar 'The Disclosure of Secrets'--some thoughts on later Mamluk painting / Duncan Haldane. -- Symbolism in the work of the Kuwaiti artist Thuraya al-Baqsami / Barbara Michalak-Pikulska. -- The calligrapher-illuminator: the hybrid vigour / Nabil Safwat. -- Ottoman poetry in Safavid garb: pictures in a Diwan of Mahmud 'Abd al-Baki / Eleanor Sims. -- Two Ghaznavid way-stations and some 'platteresque' refurbishment / A. D. H. Bivar. -- The cenotaph in Imamzada Habib b. Musa, Kashan: does it mark the grave of Shah 'Abbas I? / Javad Golmohammadi. -- The Qubbat al-Sulaybiyya and its interpretation / Alastair Northedge. -- Early Bahmani mihrabs in Gulbarga, Deccan / Helen Philon. -- The Solomonic theme in the decorative and epigraphical programmes of the Dome of the Rock / Raya Y. Shani. -- The Indian 'idgah and its Persian prototype: the namazgah or musalla / Mehrdad Shokoohy and Natalie H. Shokoohy. -- Karaite origins in Lithuania and in Poland, according to Professor Seraja Shapsala / Harry T. Norris. -- Blossoms and pomegranates: silk embroideries of the Ottoman Empire / Penny Oakley. -- The Marsh Arabs of Iraq--a memoir of their life, their dwellings and their embroideries / Jehan Rajab. -- Persian carpet design in the 16th and 17th centuries: creativity and practicalities / Jennifer Wearden. -- A late Mamluk oil lamp in the Hungarian National Museum / Doris Behrens-Abouseif. -- Narcissism or catoptromancy?--mirrors from the medieval Eastern Islamic world / Stefano Carboni. -- Some liberated Persian figures on Safavid blue and white ceramics / Yolande Crowe. -- From Mashu to Qaf: the iconography of a minai bowl / Abbas Daneshvari. -- A magic bowl from India in the Tareq Rajab Museum / Alexander Fodor. -- Ottoman rings in the collections of the Hungarian National Museum / Ibolya Gerelyes. -- Pomegranates, lychees, or loquats: an offering of Timurid-Chinese fruits / Ernst J. Grube. -- The Islamic re-working of the Sasanian heritage: two case studies / Robert Hillenbrand. -- Lustre wasters: attribution, provenance and art-historical politics / Oliver Watson.
Subject Art, Islamic
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