| ISBN |
9780300196665 (hbk.) |
| Meeting Name |
Hamad bin Khalifa Symposium on Islamic Art (4th : 2011 : Dawhah, Qatar) |
| Title |
God is beautiful and loves beauty : the object in Islamic art and culture / edited by Sheila Blair and Jonathan Bloom |
| Publisher |
New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, 2013 |
| Physical desc. |
389 p. ; ill. (chiefly col.) ; 30 cm. |
| Note |
"In association with the Qatar Foundation, Virginia Commonwealth University, and Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts in Qatar |
| CBL illustrations: p. 282, fig. 257 (Is 1431, f. 9b); p. 304, fig. 268 (Per 163, f. 38a). |
| Bibliography etc. |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 367-378) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: The object in Islamic art and culture / Sheila Blair and Jonathan Bloom -- I.M. Pei and the challenge of the modern / Paul Goldberger -- The galleries of the Museum of Islamic Art, Doha / Oliver Watson -- Twenty leaves from the Tashkent Koran / François Déroche -- Three stucco panels from Samarra / Julia Gonnella -- Two capitals from the Umayyad caliphate of Córdoba / Antonio Vallejo Triano -- The most authoritative copy of ʻAbd al-Rahman al-Sufi’s tenth-century guide to the constellations / Emilie Savage-Smith -- Three ceramic vessels from medieval Islamic times / Aimée Froom -- The biography of a thirteenth-century brass ewer from Mosul / Ruba Kana'an -- A Mamluk enameled bucket and experiments in glass production / Rachel Ward -- A set of silk panels from the Mongol period / Kjeld von Folsach -- An early Anatolian animal carpet and related examples / Michael Franses -- An Ottoman murakkaa and the birth of the international style / Mohamed Zakariya -- Five folios from the Jahangir album / John Seyller -- Six seventeenth-century oil paintings from Safavid Persia / Eleanor Sims. |
| Corporate name |
Museum of Islamic Art (Dawḥah, Qatar) |
| Meeting |
Biennial Hamad bin Khalifa Symposium on Islamic Art and Culture |
| Subject |
Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- Is 1431 |
| Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- Per 163 |
| Islamic art objects -- Congresses |
| Islamic art -- Congresses |
| Art and society -- Islamic countries -- Congresses |
| Added name(s) |
Blair, Sheila ed. |
| Bloom, Jonathan (Jonathan M.) ed. |
| Added name(s) - Corporate |
Museum of Islamic Art (Dawḥah, Qatar) |
| Qatar Foundation |
