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Art, trade and culture in the Islamic world and beyond: from the Fatimids to the Mughals : studies presented to Doris Behrens-Abouseif

Art, trade and culture in the Islamic world and beyond: from the Fatimids to the Mughals : studies presented to Doris Behrens-Abouseif
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ISBN 1909942901 (hbk.)
9781909942905 (hbk.)
Title Art, trade and culture in the Islamic world and beyond : from the Fatimids to the Mughals : studies presented to Doris Behrens-Abouseif / edited by Alison Ohta, J.M. Rogers and Rosalind Wade Haddon
Publisher London : Gingko Library, 2016
Physical desc. 281, [2] p. ; ill.(chiefly col), maps, plans ; 30 cm.
Series Gingko Library art series
Note CBL illustrations: p. 207, fig. 3 (In 07A.13); p. 237, fig. 2 (In 11A.27).
Bibliography etc. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Pt. 1: Metalwork. Traces of Mosul: an inlaid brass pen box in the V&A / Moya Carey -- The second life of a Mamluk lamp from Saint John the Theologian Monastery, Patmos and the oral tradition attached to it / Nikolaos Vryzidis -- Mean or green? Mamluk vessels recycled for the Rasulid Sultans / Rachel Ward -- Pt. 2: Architecture. The mausoleum of Yahya al-Shabih revisited / Bernard O'Kane and Bahia Shehab -- A tale of two ceilings: the Capella Palatina in Palermo and the Mouchroutas in Constantinople / Jeremy Johns -- Mahmud Gawan's madrasa in Bidar: a unique architectural transplant from the Timurid world to the Deccan / Helen Philon -- The octagonal kufic inscription in the Qartawiyya Madrasa and its counterpart in the Sultan Ahmed Mosque / Bora Keskiner -- Victory in the making: the symbolism of Istanbul's Nusretiye Mosque / Ünver Rüstem -- The spiritual and mystical dimensions of the hamam in Turkish bathing culture / Mehmet Baha Tanman -- 'I understood that he is entrusted to serve some great business undertaking': Armenian architects reshaping the Ottoman east in the Hamidian era (1876-1909) / Alyson Wharton-Durgaryan -- Pt. 3: Ceramics. The shelf life of Port Saint Symeon ceramics: evidence from Kinet Höyük / Scott Redford -- Trade and innovation seen through Mamluk, Ilkhanid, and Golden Horde imitation celadon wares / Rosalind Wade Haddon -- Decorative tiles in Egypt and Greater Syria during the reign of Sultan Qaytbay (r. 1468-1496) / Sami de Giosa -- Representations of lyrical beauty: the image of a courtesan at the Topkapi Palace in the seventeenth century / Feliz Yenisehirlioğlu -- Armenian patrons for Chinese commodities: trade networks and cultural exchange across Asia / George Manginis -- Colouring the surface: a taste for 'Persian' tiles in English domestic architecture, 1870-1914 / Melanie Gibson -- Pt. 4: Book arts and painting. A sultan before the Padshah? questioning the identification of the turnbaned figure in Jahangir preferring a Sufi Shaykh to kings / Mehreen Chida-Razvi -- The bindings of Qansuh al-Gawri / Alison Ohta -- 'A sacred tree': a paper collage in the Khalili Collection / J.M. Rogers -- Historical portraits of Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb 'Alamgir I (r. 1658-1707) / Malini Roy -- Pt. 5: Material culture. The art of Iranian decorative veneer, khatam-kari / Javad Golmohammadi -- Swimming across the weft: fish motifs on Mamluk textiles / Maria Sardi -- Double Orientalism: European lacquer and its unacknowledged debt to Iran / Tim Stanley.
Person as subject Behrens-Abouseif, Doris
Subject Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- In 07A
Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- In 11A
Islamic art
Islamic art objects
Islamic decorative arts
Islamic illumination of books and manuscripts
Islamic decorative arts
Islamic metal-work
Islamic architecture
Islamic bookbinding
Islamic Empire -- Antiquities
Turkey -- History -- Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918 -- Antiquities
Added name(s) Ohta, Allison
Rogers, J. M.
Wade Haddon, Rosalind
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