Middle Eastern Encounters: Collected Essays on Visual, Material, and Textual Interactions between the Eighth and the Twenty-first Centuries

Marcus Milwright

Published by Gorgias Press 2020

Middle Eastern Encounters

Collected Essays on Visual, Material, and Textual Interactions between the Eighth and the Twenty-first Centuries

Marcus Milwright

Volume 21 in the series Islamic History and Thought

https://doi.org/10.31826/9781463241940

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This book focuses on interactions between the Islamic world and other regions from the late eighth to the twenty-first centuries. Some chapters consider the complex relationship between Islam and the cultures of Late Antiquity in the Middle East and Mediterranean basin. The reprinted chapters in this volume have been revised and updated. Topics include relief-moulded pottery production in Raqqa, the construction of palaces in Samarra, portraiture in Arabic manuscript painting, written descriptions of patterned marble in medieval Islam, images of Muslim rulers in early Modern printed books, and the broadcast of the medical examination of Saddam Hussein. Also included are a critical introduction that considers the challenges involved in the study of cultural interactions between Islamic and non-Islamic regions, a cumulative bibliography, and a previously unpublished study of recently discovered photographs, drawings, and writings relating to the Middle East made by soldiers during and after World War I.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
TABLE OF CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
TEXT AND IMAGE ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	xxiii
NOTES FOR THE READER Publicly Available Download PDF	xxv
INTRODUCTION Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
CHAPTER 1. RAQQA BEFORE ‘RAQQA WARES’: TOWARD A TYPOLOGY OF ORNAMENT IN THE CERAMIC WORKSHOPS OF EARLY ABBASID TAL ASWAD Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
CHAPTER 2. FIXTURES AND FITTINGS: THE ROLE OF DECORATION IN ABBASID PALACE DESIGN Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	61
CHAPTER 3. ‘WAVES OF THE SEA’: RESPONSES TO MARBLE IN WRITTEN SOURCES (NINTH– FIFTEENTH CENTURIES) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
CHAPTER 4. RŪM, ṢĪN AND THE IDEA OF THE ‘PORTRAIT’ IN MEDIEVAL ARABIC LITERARY AND VISUAL CULTURE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
CHAPTER 5. REYNALD OF CHÂTILLON AND THE RED SEA EXPEDITION OF 1182–1183 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
CHAPTER 6. THE CUP OF THE SĀQĪ : ORIGINS OF AN EMBLEM OF THE MAMLUK KHĀ ṢṢAKIYYA Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
CHAPTER 7. EXPERIENCING THE MIDDLE EAST DURING THE GREAT WAR: J. M., LIEUTENANT GODDARD AND CAPTAIN PAGE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	217
CHAPTER 8. AN AYYUBID IN MAMLUK GUISE: THE PORTRAIT OF SALADIN IN PAOLO GIOVIO’S ELOGIA VIRORUM BELLICA VIRTUTE ILLUSTRIUM (1575) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247
CHAPTER 9. SO DESPICABLE A VESSEL: REPRESENTATIONS OF TAMERLANE IN PRINTED BOOKS OF THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	281
CHAPTER 10. BAYEZID’S CAGE: A RE-EXAMINATION OF A VENERABLE ACADEMIC CONTROVERSY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	341
CHAPTER 11. THE MARTYRED SULTAN: TUMAN BAY II IN ANDRE THEVET’S LES VRAIS POURTRAITS ET VIES DES HOMMES ILLUSTRES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	379
CHAPTER 12. REPRESENTATIONS OF THE MEDICAL EXAMINATION AND IMPRISONMENT OF SADDAM HUSSEIN Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	423
CUMULATIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	447
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	517

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Language: English
Publisher: Gorgias Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 571
Keywords: History; General; Middle East

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Published: January 20, 2021
ISBN: 9781463241940