The world of the Fatimids

Körperschaft: Institute of Ismaili Studies.
Hirmer Verlag.
Weitere Verfasser: Melikian-Chirvani, Assadullah Souren , [HerausgeberIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Toronto : Aga Khan Museum in association with The Institute of Ismaili Studies and Hirmer Verlag, 2018.
Umfang/Format: 376 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • The Fatimid caliphs : rise and fall / Farhad Daftary
  • The Fatimid dream of a new Cairo : dynastic patronage and its imprint on the architectural setting / Doris Behrens-Abouseif
  • On Fatimid gardens : a note on the Darrasa excavations / Stéphane Pradines
  • Fatimid art and its unresolved enigmas : from ceramics to rock crystal to its vanished silverware / Assadullah Souren Melikian-Chirvani
  • Monumental calligraphy in Fatimid Egypt : epigraphy in stone, stucco, and wood / Bernard O'Kane
  • Literary culture in Fatimid Egypt / Paul Walker
  • The Egyptian art of the Tiraz in Fatimid times / Bernard O'Kane
  • Christian art and culture / Johannes Den Heijer, Mat Immerzeel, Naglaa Hamdi D. Boutros, Manhal Makhoul, Perrine Pilette, and Tineke Rooijakkers
  • Jewish books in Fatimid Egypt / Paula Sanders
  • The Fatimids and the world / Maribel Fierro
  • Itinerant objects in the Fatimid world : from Cairo to al-Andalus to Sicily and back / David Bramoullé
  • Architectural calligraphy in the Fatimid Maghrib : an insidious penchant for breaking bonds / Lotfi Abdeljaouad
  • Arab avant-garde art in the twelfth century : Cairo or Palermo? / Doris Behrens-Abouseif and Maurizio Massaiu
  • The Iranian Da'is and Fatimid Egypt / Farhad Daftary
  • Just what did Naser-e Khosrow see in Cairo? : an ongoing debate / Assadullah Souren Melikian-Chirvani.