Discover Islamic art in the Mediterranean

Parallelsachtitel: Islamic art in the Mediterranean
Körperschaft: European Union
Unione Europea Programma MEDA/Euromed Heritage
Museum With No Frontiers
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Brussels, Belgium : Vienna, Austria : [Cairo, Egypt] : London, United Kingdom : Maidstone : Musée Sans Frontières (AISBL) [Museum With No Frontiers] ; Museum Ohne Grenzen [Museum With No Frontiers] ; al Dar al-Marriah al-Lubnaniah ; published in cooperation with Art Books International ; Amalgamated Book Services [distributor], c2007.
Umfang/Format: 272 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 29 cm.
ISBN: 9781874044635
1874044635
9789774271069
9774271068
9953369577
9789953369570
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • The Mediterranean prior to the Islamic expansion / Aicha Benabed
  • The Prophet and the rightly guided caliphs / Muhammad al-Asad and Claus-Peter Haase
  • The Umayyads: Damascus, the first capital / Ghazi Bisheh
  • Figurative decoration / Jens Kröger and Mohammed Najjar
  • The Abbasids : the first Islamic empire / Noorah al-Gailani and Mounira Chapatout-Remadi
  • The conquest of the West : Cordoba, Umayyad capital in al-Andalus / Mohamed Mezzine
  • Calligraphy : the sublime art of Islam / Şule Aksoy and Khader Salameh
  • Islamic and Norman Sicily / Pier Paolo Racioppi and Ettore Sessa
  • The Fatimids : two centuries of supremacy / Ulrike al-Khamis
  • Women and power in the Islamic Mediterranean / Jamila Binous
  • The Muslim West after the Umayyads / Gaspar Aranda and Kamal Lakhdar
  • Islamic geometry : the philosophy of space / Naima Elkhatib-Boubijar
  • The central Maghreb : conquest and dissidence / Farida Benouis and Boussad Ouadi
  • 'And we made out of water every living thing' : water in Islam / Sheila Canby and Zena Takieddine
  • Mudéjar art : the Islamic heritage in Christian Portugal and Spain / Gonzalo Borrás Gualís and Santiago Macías
  • The Ayyubid era : conflicts and coexistence in medieval Syria / Abdal-Razzaq Moaz and Emily Shovelton
  • The Hajj : pilgrimage in Islam / Nazmi al-Jubeh
  • The Mamluks : Cairo becomes the new centre of the Islamic world / Mohamed Abbas
  • Science and music / Mònica Rius
  • The Ottomans : rulers for six hundred years / Verena Daiber and İnci Kuyulu Ersoy
  • Reflections of Paradise : floral decoration in Islamic art / a collaboration
  • Western influences in Ottoman lands / Mehmet Kahyaoğlu and Paola Torre.