Islamic art, architecture and material culture
Subtitle: new perspectives
By: edited by Margaret S. Graves
Series: BAR international series -- 2436; BAR international series -- 2436.
Publisher: Archaeopress
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 147
ISBN-13: 9781407310350
Subjects: Material culture; Congresses; Islamic decorative arts; Islamic architecture
Notes: "This collection of papers sprang from a workshop hosted in 2007 by the Centre for Advanced Study of the Arab World (CASAW) at the University of Edinburgh."--P. iii.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Editor's note; title: Introduction / Robert Hillenbrand; title: Metalwork and textiles. The Freer canteen: Jerusalem or Jazira? / Teresa Fitzherbert; title: Mamluk textiles / Maria Sardi; title: The captivating power of textiles / Miriam Ali-de-Unzaga; title: Ceramics. Unravelling the enigmatic fourteenth-century Mamluk and Mongol fine wares: how to solve the problem / Rosalind A. Wad Haddon; title: Crossing borders: Mudéjar ceramics in Paterna / Anna McSweeney; title: The aesthetics of simulation: architeactural mimicry on medieval ceramic tabourets / Margaret S. Graves; title: The built environment. A symbolic Khassakiyya: representations of the palace guard in murals and stucco sculpture / Melanie Gibson; title: The notion of time and the image of place: reflections on Islamic gardens / Saeid Khaghani; title: The public realm in central Damascus: 'where old and new meet' / Rema Haddad; title: Arts of the book. The earliest Qurʼanic scripts / Marcus Fraser; title: The influence of oral narrating traditions on a frequently illustrated thirteenth-century manuscript / Filiz Adigüzel Toprak; title: Exile and adventure: Hassan Massoudy and Sindbad the Sailor / Sarah Sandow.