Image and meaning in Islamic art
By: edited by Robert Hillenbrand.
Contributors: Hillenbrand, Robert.; Grube, Ernst J.
Publisher: Altajir Trust; AL-TAJER TRUST
Published: 2005
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
Subjects: Islamic art and symbolism.; Art, Islamic -- Themes, motives.; Art, Islamic -- Themes, motives -- Bibliography.
Genres: Bibliography.
Notes: Selected papers from a symposium on Islamic iconography held in Edinburgh on Oct. 26-27, 1990; includes extensive bibliography.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: New light on Islamic iconography / Robert Hillenbrand; title: Iconography in Islamic art / Ernst Grube; title: Solar and celestial symbolism in medieval Islamic art / James Allan; title: The Minbar of Al-Aqsa: form and function / Sylvia Auld; title: Mightiness, ecstasy and control: some general features of Islamic arts / Johann-Christoph Bürgel; title: A royal drinking scene from Alchi: Iranian iconography in the Western Himalayas / Finbarr B. Flood; title: Early medieval Islamic court life: the evidence of the literary sources / ʻAbd al-Rahman al-Gailani; title: Paradise glimpsed by the Muslim believer at prayer / Raya Y. Shani; title: The iconography of the illustrated Timurid Ẓafarnāma manuscripts / Eleanor Sims; title: Fire-making, and its influence on the background to some mysterious iconography in medieval Islamic art / Marian Wenzel; title: A bibliography of iconography in Islamic art / Ernst J. Grube.