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Syria matters

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ISBN	9788836641222 (softcover : Silvana Editorale)
ISBN	9789927108426 (softcover : Qatar Museums)
Title	Syria matters / [lead authors : Rania Abdellatif, Julia Gonnella, Kay Kohlmeyer]
Publisher	Doha : Qatar Museums, Milano : Silvana Editorale, 2018
Physical desc.	239 pages (1 folded) ; illustrations (chiefly color) ; 31 cm.
Note	Catalogue of an exhibition held 22 November 2018 to 30 April 2019, at the Museum of Islamic Art, Doha.
Note	Gift of Qatar Museums.
Bibliography etc.	Includes bibliographical references.
Contents	Syria: the pre-Islamic periods. Syria: cradle of civilization / Kay Kohlmeyer -- The beginning of human presence in Syria / Sultan Muhesen -- The supraregional sanctuary of the weather god of Aleppo (3rd-early 1st millennium BCE) / Kay Kohlmeyer -- Tell Halaf: cultural heritage between despair and daring rescue / Nadja Cholidis -- Phoenicia and the Greeks / Astrid Nunn -- Palmyra. Palmyra: city in the 'desert' / Kay Kohlmeyer -- Palmyra in the 18th century: Louis-François Cassas / Sophie Bostock -- Palmyra in the 18th century: Louis Vignes / Giles M. Hudson -- Syria under the Banu Umayya. Language of power, architecture of faith: Syria under the Banu Umayya / Rania Abdellatif -- Manuscripts of the Holy Qur'an in the Umayyad period / Claus-Peter Haase -- Syria under the Banu Ayyub and Mamalik. Citadels of erudition, paths of glory: Syria under the Banu Ayyub and Mamalik / Rania Abdellatif -- Scholarship in Syria under the Banu Ayyub and Mamalik / Konrad Hirschler -- The Cavour vase from the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha / Rachel Ward -- Syria under the Banu Uthman. Syria under the Ottomans / Julia Gonnella -- 'A merchant of the Levant Company, Aleppo beyond' by Andrea Soldi / Kholood Marzook Al Fahad -- A slumbering treasure: a splendid 'Ajami room from Damascus / Anke Scharrahs -- Essays. Syria under the French Mandate, 1918-1946 / Pierre Fournié -- Marwan / Venetia Porter -- Aleppo: a musical legacy / Muhammad Qadri Dalal.
Corporate name	Museum of Islamic Art (Dawḥah, Qatar) -- Exhibitions
Subject	Qur'an -- Manuscripts -- Exhibitions
	Art -- Syria -- Exhibitions
	Islamic art -- Syria -- Exhibitions
	Islamic art objects -- Syria -- Catalogs
	Syria -- Civilization -- Exhibitions
	Syria -- History -- Exhibitions
Added name(s)	Abdellatif, Rania
	Gonnella, Julia
	Kohlmeyer, Kay
Added name(s) - Corporate	Qatar Museums Authority

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