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Byzantium and Islam: age of transition, 7th-9th century

Byzantium and Islam: age of transition, 7th-9th century
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ISBN 0300179502 (hbk.)
9780300179507 (hbk.)
Title Byzantium and Islam : age of transition, 7th-9th century / edited by Helen C. Evans with Brandie Ratliff
Publisher New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2012
Physical desc. [xx], 332 p. ; ill. (chiefly col.), col. map ; 32 cm.
Note Published in conjunction with the exhibition Byzantium and Islam: age of transition, 7th-9th century, held 14 March-8 July 2012, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Bibliography etc. Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-319) and index.
Contents Byzantium. Byzantium and Islam: age of transition (7th-9th century) / Helen C. Evans -- Gerasa / Lisa R. Brody -- Heraclius / Helen C. Evans -- Classical survival / Helen C. Evans -- Sasanian expansion to the Mediterranean / Alexander Nagel -- Christian communities during the early Islamic centuries / Brandie Ratliff -- Sinai from the seventh to the ninth century: continuity in the midst of change / Hieromonk Justin of Sinai -- Icons from the Monastery of Saint Catherine at Mount Sinai / Kathleen Corrigan -- Arab Christians / Sidney H. Griffith -- The Syriac Church / Nancy Khalek -- Coptic Christianity / Elizabeth S. Bolman -- The White Monastery Federation and the angelic life / Elizabeth S. Bolman -- The Coptic monastery of Bawit / Dominique Bénazeth -- To travel to the Holy / Brandie Ratliff -- The Stylites of Syria / Brandie Ratliff -- Mosaics during the Byzantine and early Islamic periods / Robert Schick -- Jews and Judaism between Byzantium and Islam / Steven Fine -- Christian mosaics in early Islamic Jordan and Palestine: a case of regional iconoclasm / Finbarr B. Flood -- Commerce. 'Ornaments of excellence' from 'the miserable gains of commerce': luxury art and Byzantine culture / Thelma K. Thomas -- Arab-Byzantine coins: money as cultural continuity / Clive Foss -- Weights and measures from Byzantium and Islam / Stefan Heidemann -- Silks / Thelma K. Thomas -- Dress styles from Syria to late Libya / Cäcilia Fluck -- Materials and techniques of late antique and early Islamic textiles found in Egypt / Kathrin Colburn -- Animal motifs / Mina Moraitou -- Vine rinceaux / Gabriele Mietke -- Inscribed textiles / Cäcilia Fluck -- Inscribed objects / Robert Schick -- Jewelry: ideologies and transformation / Stephen R. Zwirn -- Women / Mina Moraitou -- Islam. Country estates, material culture, and the celebration of princely life: Islamic art and the secular domain / Anna Ballian -- Qasr al-Mshatta / Anna Ballian -- Al-Fudayn / Anna Ballian -- Al-Qastal / Anna Ballian -- An Abbasid residence at al-Humayma / Rebecca M. Foote -- Ornamental motifs in early Islamic art / Mina Moraitou -- Fustat / Iman R. Abdulfattah -- Secular inscriptions / Mina Moraitou -- Faith, religion, and the material culture of early Islam / Finbarr B. Flood -- Religious inscriptions in early Islamic art / Linda Komaroff -- The Qur'an / Finbarr B. Flood.
Corporate name Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) -- Exhibitions
Subject Art, Byzantine -- Exhibitions
Islamic art -- Exhibitions
Islamic art -- Byzantine influences
Byzantine Empire -- Civilization -- Exhibitions
Islamic Empire -- Civilization -- Exhibitions
Added name(s) Evans, Helen C. ed.
Ratliff, Brandie ed.
Added name(s) - Corporate Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
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