The Making of Islamic Art: Studies in Honour of Sheila Blair and Jonathan Bloom

Robert Hillenbrand

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2021

The Making of Islamic Art

Studies in Honour of Sheila Blair and Jonathan Bloom

Robert Hillenbrand

In the series Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Art

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474434300

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Explores how Islamic art and architecture were made: their materials and their social, political, economic and religious context

Explores previously neglected practice-based approaches to Islamic art: architecture, painting and the decorative arts
Looks at Islamic art from the craftsman’s rather than the patron’s viewpoint
Covers not just the Islamic heartlands from Spain to Iran but extends to India and China, underlining the global presence of Islamic art
Presents material and sources which are usually overlooked in discussions of Islamic art
Revises conventional wisdom in fields as disparate as woodwork and ceramics
Illuminates the interface of modern politics and Islamic art

In their own words, Jonathan Bloom and Sheila Blair espouse ‘things and thinginess rather than theories and isations’. Its many insights, firmly anchored in artistic practice, are supported by ample technical know-how. The range is wide – mosques becoming temples; how religious buildings reflect politics; Yemeni frescoes and inscriptions; domestic Syrian 18th-century ornament; Egyptian bookbinding techniques; recycling and repair in Damascene crafts; conservation versus restoration; narrative on ceramics; metalwork with architectural motifs; lost buildings reconstructed; how objects speak; Muslim burials in China; the role of migrating potters; Mughal painting; stone carpet weights; the use of metals in Islamic manuscripts, calligraphy and modern artists’ books.This book’s practical, down-to-earth dimension, expressed in plain, simple English, runs counter to the current fashion for theoretical explanations and their accompanying jargon when exploring the world of Islamic art. This bottom–up approach differs radically and refreshingly from that of much top-down contemporary scholarship. It privileges the maker rather than the patron.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
List of Figures Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
The Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
Series Editor’s Foreword Publicly Available Download PDF	xv
Preface and Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	xvi
INTRODUCTION Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
CHAPTER 1 Old Mosques: Destroyed, Lost and Transformed in Twentieth- and Twenty-first-century India Catherine B. Asher Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	5
CHAPTER 2 The ‘Arraf Mosque in Dhu Jibla Barbara Finster Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	22
CHAPTER 3 Monumentality en Miniature: On Two Domeshaped Carpet Weights – mir-i farsh Kjeld von Folsach Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
CHAPTER 4 ‘The View from Above’: Muslim Perceptions of the Turks of Syria and the Jazira in the Period 1070 to 1176 Carole Hillenbrand Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
CHAPTER 5 The Multiple Faces of Restoration in the Medieval Islamic Architecture of Central Asia Robert Hillenbrand Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
CHAPTER 6 A Damascus Room in Los Angeles Linda Komaroff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
CHAPTER 7 Rubbish, Recycling and Repair: Perspectives on the Portable Arts of the Islamic Middle East Marcus Milwright Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	138
CHAPTER 8 A Copper-alloy Plate with Architectural Imagery in Berlin . . . and Jerusalem? Lawrence Nees Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	156
CHAPTER 9 Looking Inside the Book: Doublures of the Mamluk Period Alison Ohta Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	184
CHAPTER 10 Taj al-Din ‘Alishah: The Reconstruction of his Mosque Complex at Tabriz Bernard O’Kane Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
CHAPTER 11 Once More Cosmophilia: Facing the Truth, Later Simon O’Meara Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	226
CHAPTER 12 The Making, Unmaking and Making Sense of an Illustration from an Imperial Mughal Akbarnama Laura E. Parodi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	242
CHAPTER 13 The Use of Metals in Islamic Manuscripts Cheryl Porter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	260
CHAPTER 14 Telling Stories: Artists’ Books in the Collection of the British Museum Venetia Porter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	280
CHAPTER 15 The Freer Beaker in Text and Image Marianna Shreve Simpson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	300
CHAPTER 16 When Muslims Died in China Nancy Steinhardt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	333
CHAPTER 17 AbË’l-Fa‰l’s Description of Akbar’s ‘House of Depiction’ Wheeler M. Thackston Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	350
CHAPTER 18 ‘Migration Theory’ in Islamic Pottery Oliver Watson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	372
Appendix – Sheila Blair and Jonathan Bloom: A Combined Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	388
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	421

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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 448
Illustrations
- Other: 28 B/W illustrations 135 colour illustrations
Keywords: Islamic Studies

eBook

Published: March 24, 2022
ISBN: 9781474434300