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Image and meaning in Islamic art

Image and meaning in Islamic art
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ISBN 1901435121
9781901435122
Title Image and meaning in Islamic art / edited by Robert Hillenbrand
Publisher London : Altajir Trust, 2005
Physical desc. 320 p. ; ill. (b&w) ; 27 cm.
Note Selected papers from a symposium on Islamic iconography held in Edinburgh on Oct. 26-27, 1990.
Bibliography etc. Includes bibliographical references
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 / 'Abd al-Rahman al-Gailaini. -- 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.
Subject Islamic art and symbolism
Islamic art and symbolism -- Congresses
Islamic art and symbolism -- Bibliography
Art, Islamic -- Themes, motives -- Congresses
Art, Islamic -- Themes, motives -- Bibliography
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