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The iconography of Islamic art : studies in honour of Robert Hillenbrand / edited by Bernard O'Kane

Contributor(s): O'Kane, Bernard | Hillenbrand, RobertMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2007 Edition: Pbk. edDescription: xiii, 336 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cmISBN: 9780748633678 (pbk.); 0748633677 (pbk.)Subject(s): Islamic art | Islamic architectureDDC classification: 709.1767 LOC classification: N6260 | .I266 2007
Contents:
Birds and blessings: a Kohl-pot from Jerusalem / Sylvia Auld -- Remarks on the iconography of the Medieval capitals of Cairo: form and emplacement / Marianne Barrucand -- A Mongol envoy / Sheila S. Blair -- Almoravid geometric designs in the pavement of the Cappella Palatina in Palermo / Jonathan M. Bloom -- A kingly posture: the iconography of Sultan Husayn Bayqara / Barbara Brend -- Musical beasts: the Swan-Phoenix in the Ibn Bakhtishu Bestiaries / Anna Contadini -- Cup, branch, bird and fish: an iconographical study of the figure holding a cup and a branch flanked by a bird and a fish / Abbas Daneshvari -- Islamic incense-burners and the influence of Buddhist art / Geza Fehervari -- Vine ornament and pomegranates as palace decoration in Anjar / Barbara Finster -- Persianate trends in Sultanate architecture: the great Mosque of Bada'un / Finbarr Barry Flood -- Silks, pots and jugs: Al-Jahiz and objects of common use / Oleg Grabar -- Khusrau Parviz as champion of Shi'ism? A closer look at an early Safavid miniature painting in the Royal Museum of Edinburgh / Ulrike al-Khamis -- 'Waves of the sea': responses to marble in written sources (ninth-fifteenth centuries) / Marcus Milwright -- The arboreal aesthetic: landscape, painting and architecture from Mongol Iran to Mamluk Egypt / Bernard O'Kane -- The vicissitudes of Rustam / B.W. Robinson -- Made for the show: the medieval treasury of the Ka'ba in Mecca / Avinoam Shalem -- A pictorial representation of the Hadith al-thaqualayn in an Ilkhanid copy of Bal'ami's Tarjuma-yi tarikh-i Tabari in the Freer Gallery / Raya Y. Shani -- Style verus substance: the Christian iconography on two vessels made for the Ayyubid Sultan al-Salih Ayyub / Rachel Ward
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Originally published: 2005

Includes bibliographical references and index

Birds and blessings: a Kohl-pot from Jerusalem / Sylvia Auld -- Remarks on the iconography of the Medieval capitals of Cairo: form and emplacement / Marianne Barrucand -- A Mongol envoy / Sheila S. Blair -- Almoravid geometric designs in the pavement of the Cappella Palatina in Palermo / Jonathan M. Bloom -- A kingly posture: the iconography of Sultan Husayn Bayqara / Barbara Brend -- Musical beasts: the Swan-Phoenix in the Ibn Bakhtishu Bestiaries / Anna Contadini -- Cup, branch, bird and fish: an iconographical study of the figure holding a cup and a branch flanked by a bird and a fish / Abbas Daneshvari -- Islamic incense-burners and the influence of Buddhist art / Geza Fehervari -- Vine ornament and pomegranates as palace decoration in Anjar / Barbara Finster -- Persianate trends in Sultanate architecture: the great Mosque of Bada'un / Finbarr Barry Flood -- Silks, pots and jugs: Al-Jahiz and objects of common use / Oleg Grabar -- Khusrau Parviz as champion of Shi'ism? A closer look at an early Safavid miniature painting in the Royal Museum of Edinburgh / Ulrike al-Khamis -- 'Waves of the sea': responses to marble in written sources (ninth-fifteenth centuries) / Marcus Milwright -- The arboreal aesthetic: landscape, painting and architecture from Mongol Iran to Mamluk Egypt / Bernard O'Kane -- The vicissitudes of Rustam / B.W. Robinson -- Made for the show: the medieval treasury of the Ka'ba in Mecca / Avinoam Shalem -- A pictorial representation of the Hadith al-thaqualayn in an Ilkhanid copy of Bal'ami's Tarjuma-yi tarikh-i Tabari in the Freer Gallery / Raya Y. Shani -- Style verus substance: the Christian iconography on two vessels made for the Ayyubid Sultan al-Salih Ayyub / Rachel Ward