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Muqarnas: an annual on the visual cultures of the Islamic world : Gazing otherwise : modalities of seeing in and beyond the lands of Islam

Muqarnas: an annual on the visual cultures of the Islamic world : Gazing otherwise : modalities of seeing in and beyond the lands of Islam
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ISBN 9004298983 (hbk.)
9789004298989 (hbk.)
Title Muqarnas : an annual on the visual cultures of the Islamic world : Gazing otherwise : modalities of seeing in and beyond the lands of Islam / guest editors : Olga Bush and Avinoam Shalem
Publisher Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2015
Physical desc. 278 p. ; ill. (some col.), ports., maps, plans ; 28 cm.
Series Muqarnas 32
Note 'This volume is the outcome of a two-day conference held October 11-12, 2012, at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz-Max-Planck-Institut (KHI), in Florence, Italy' -- Acknowledgements.
Bibliography etc. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Introduction. Amazement: the suspended moment of the gaze / Avinoam Shalem -- Prosopopeia: performing the reciprocal gaze / Olga Bush -- The scrutinizing gaze in the aesthetics of Islamic visual cultures: sight, insight, and desire / Gülru Necipoğlu -- Visible and invisible bodies: the architectural patronage of Shajar al-Durr / D. Fairchild Ruggles -- The eye of reflection: Al-Nabulusi’s spatial interpretation of Ibn ʿArabi’s tomb / Samer Akkach -- Entangled gazes: the polysemy of the new Great Mosque Of Granada / Olga Bush -- The gaze in the album of Ahmed I / Emine Fetvacı -- A restricted gaze: the ornament of the main caliphal palace of Samarra / Matthew D. Saba -- Experientia and auctoritas: ʿAbd al-Latif al-Baghdadi’s Kitāb al-Ifāda wa’l-iʿtibār and the birth of the critical gaze / Avinoam Shalem -- Arabesques, unicorns, and invisible masters: the art historian’s gaze as symptomatic action? / Eva-Maria Troelenberg -- Glancing blows, crossing boundaries: from local to global in the company of Afghan women / Holly Edwards -- The taming of haptic space: from Málaga to Valencia to Florence / Laura U. Marks.
Subject Islamic art
Islamic architecture
Islamic illumination of books and manuscripts
Islamic decorative arts
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