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Early capitals of Islamic culture: the artistic legacy of Umayyad Damascus and Abbasid Baghdad (650-950)

Early capitals of Islamic culture: the artistic legacy of Umayyad Damascus and Abbasid Baghdad (650-950)
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ISBN 9783777422442 (hbk.)
Title Early capitals of Islamic culture : the artistic legacy of Umayyad Damascus and Abbasid Baghdad (650-950) / [edited by Stefan Weber, Ulrike al-Khamis and Susan Kamel]
Publisher Munich : Hirmer, 2014
Physical desc. 71, [2], 71 p. ; ill., maps, plans ; 28 cm.
Note Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Sharjah Musuem of Islamic Civilization, Sharjah, UAE, 14 October 2014-17 January 2015.
Contents The urban legacy of the Middle East / Stefan Weber -- The power of the word: from coin reform to tombstone / Gisella Helmecke -- Damascus and the Umayyad empire. The Umayyad empire, its capital Damascus and the 'desert castles' / Stefan Weber -- Khirbat al-Minya: a local 'desert castle' / Gisela Helmecke -- Having a bath in the desert / Stefan Weber -- Mshatta: Islamic art and its connections to antiquity / Katharina Meinecke and Sophia Vassilopoulou -- Baghdad and the Abbasid empire. The Abbasid empire and its residential cities Baghdad, Raqqa and Samarra / Julia Gonnella -- Ctesiphon: the Sasanian heritage in the early Islamic era / Ute Franke -- Samarra, the ephemeral capital / Julia Gonnella -- Trendy trade with blue-and-white dishes: early networks of ceramic exchange between East and West / Isabelle Dolezalek -- The shimmer of gold: lustre ceramics in Samarra / Gisela Helmecke.
Language Note Arabic and English.
Corporate name Matḥaf al-Shāriqah lil-Ḥaḍārah al-Islāmīyah -- Exhbitions
Subject Islamic art -- Exhibitions
Damascus (Syria) -- In art -- Exhibitions
Baghdad (Iraq) -- In art -- Exhibitions
Added name(s) Weber, Stefan ed.
Al-Khamis, Ulrike ed.
Added name(s) - Corporate Kamel, Susan
Idārat Matāḥif al-Shāriqah
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