Middle Eastern Encounters : : Collected Essays on Visual, Material, and Textual Interactions between the Eighth and the Twenty-first Centuries / / Marcus Milwright.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
• VerfasserIn: Milwright, Marcus,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2021]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Islamic History and Thought ; 21
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (571 p.)

This book focuses on interactions between the Islamic world and other regions from the late eighth to the twenty-first centuries. Some chapters consider the complex relationship between Islam and the cultures of Late Antiquity in the Middle East and Mediterranean basin. The reprinted chapters in this volume have been revised and updated. Topics include relief-moulded pottery production in Raqqa, the construction of palaces in Samarra, portraiture in Arabic manuscript painting, written descriptions of patterned marble in medieval Islam, images of Muslim rulers in early Modern printed books, and the broadcast of the medical examination of Saddam Hussein. Also included are a critical introduction that considers the challenges involved in the study of cultural interactions between Islamic and non-Islamic regions, a cumulative bibliography, and a previously unpublished study of recently discovered photographs, drawings, and writings relating to the Middle East made by soldiers during and after World War I.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- TEXT AND IMAGE ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- NOTES FOR THE READER -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1. RAQQA BEFORE ‘RAQQA WARES’: TOWARD A TYPOLOGY OF ORNAMENT IN THE CERAMIC WORKSHOPS OF EARLY ABBASID TAL ASWAD -- CHAPTER 2. FIXTURES AND FITTINGS: THE ROLE OF DECORATION IN ABBASID PALACE DESIGN -- CHAPTER 3. ‘WAVES OF THE SEA’: RESPONSES TO MARBLE IN WRITTEN SOURCES (NINTH– FIFTEENTH CENTURIES) -- CHAPTER 4. RŪM, ṢĪN AND THE IDEA OF THE ‘PORTRAIT’ IN MEDIEVAL ARABIC LITERARY AND VISUAL CULTURE -- CHAPTER 5. REYNALD OF CHÂTILLON AND THE RED SEA EXPEDITION OF 1182–1183 -- CHAPTER 6. THE CUP OF THE SĀQĪ : ORIGINS OF AN EMBLEM OF THE MAMLUK KHĀ ṢṢAKIYYA -- CHAPTER 7. EXPERIENCING THE MIDDLE EAST DURING THE GREAT WAR: J. M., LIEUTENANT GODDARD AND CAPTAIN PAGE -- CHAPTER 8. AN AYYUBID IN MAMLUK GUISE: THE PORTRAIT OF SALADIN IN PAOLO GIOVIO’S ELOGIA VIRORUM BELLICA VIRTUTE ILLUSTRIUM (1575) -- CHAPTER 9. SO DESPICABLE A VESSEL: REPRESENTATIONS OF TAMERLANE IN PRINTED BOOKS OF THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES -- CHAPTER 10. BAYEZID’S CAGE: A RE-EXAMINATION OF A VENERABLE ACADEMIC CONTROVERSY -- CHAPTER 11. THE MARTYRED SULTAN: TUMAN BAY II IN ANDRE THEVET’S LES VRAIS POURTRAITS ET VIES DES HOMMES ILLUSTRES -- CHAPTER 12. REPRESENTATIONS OF THE MEDICAL EXAMINATION AND IMPRISONMENT OF SADDAM HUSSEIN -- CUMULATIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX