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The making of Islamic art: studies in honour of Sheila Blair and Jonathan Bloom

The making of Islamic art: studies in honour of Sheila Blair and Jonathan Bloom
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ISBN 9781474434294 (hardcover)
Title The making of Islamic art : studies in honour of Sheila Blair and Jonathan Bloom / edited by Robert Hillenbrand
Publisher Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2021
Physical desc. 430 pages ; illustrations (chiefly color), plans ; 26 cm.
Series Edinburgh studies in Islamic art
Bibliography etc. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction -- Old mosques: destroyed, lost and transformed in twentieth- and twenty-first-century India / Catherine B. Asher -- The 'Arraf Mosque in Dhu Jibla / Barbara Finster -- Monumentality en miniature: on two dome-shaped carpet weights - mir-i farsh / Kjeld von Folsach -- 'The view from above': Muslim perceptions of the Turks of Syria and the Jazira in the period 1070 to 1176 / Carole Hillenbrand -- The multiple faces of restoration in the Medieval Islamic architecture of Central Asia / Robert Hillenbrand -- A Damascus room in Los Angeles / Linda Komaroff -- Rubbish, recycling and repair: perspectives on the portable arts of the Islamic Middle East / Marcus Milwright -- A copper-alloy plate with architectural imagery in Berlin...and Jerusalem? / Lawrence Nees -- Looking inside the book: doublures of the Mamluk period / Alison Ohta -- Taj al-Din 'Alishah: the reconstruction of his mosque complex at Tabriz / Bernard O'Kane -- Once more cosmophilia: facing the truth, later / Simon O'Meara -- The making, unmaking and making sense of an illustration from an imperial Mughal Akbarnama / Laura E. Parodi -- The use of metals in Islamic manuscripts / Cheryl Porter -- Telling stories: artists' books in the collection of the British Museum / Venetia Porter -- The Freer Beaker in text and image / Marianna Shreve Simpson -- When Muslims died in China / Nancy Steinhardt -- Abu'l-Fazl's description of Akbar's 'house of depiction' / Wheeler M. Thackston -- 'Migration theory' in Islamic pottery / Oliver Watson -- Appendix: Sheila Blair and Jonathan Bloom: a combined bibliography.
Person as subject Blair, Sheila
Bloom, Jonathan (Jonathan M.)
Subject Islamic art
Islamic architecture
Islamic bookbinding
Islamic illumination of books and manuscripts
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