Art, trade and culture in the Islamic world and beyond : : from the Fatimids to the Mughals / / edited by Alison Ohta, J.M. Rogers and Rosalind Wade Haddon.

• TeilnehmendeR: Ohta, Alison,; Rogers, J. M.,; Wade Haddon, Rosalind,
• Place / Publishing House: London, England : : Gingko Library,, [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (284 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword by Nasser David Khalili -- Foreword by the Editors -- Publications by Doris Behrens-Abouseif -- Part 1. Metalwork -- Moya Carey | Traces of Mosul: An Inlaid Brass Pen Box in the V&amp -- A -- Nikolaos Vryzidis | The Second Life of a Mamluk Lamp from Saint John the Theologian Monastery, Patmos and the Oral Tradition Attached to It -- Rachel Ward | Mean or Green? Mamluk Vessels Recycled for the Rasulid Sultans -- Part 2. Architecture -- Bernard O'Kane Aad Bahia Shehab | The Mausoleum of Yahya al-Shabih Revisited -- Jeremy Johns | A Tale of Two Ceilings: The Cappella Palatina in Palermo and the Mouchroutas in Constantinople -- Helen Philon | Mahmud Gawan's Madrasa in Bidar: A Unique Architectural Transplant from the Timurid World to the Deccan -- Bora Keskiner | The Octagonal Kufic Inscription in the Qartawiyya Madrasa and Its Counterpart in the Sultan Ahmed Mosque -- Ünver Rüstem | Victory in the Making: The Symbolism of Istanbul's Nusretiye Mosque -- Mehmet Baha Tanman | The Spiritual and Mystical Dimensions of the Hamam in Turkish Bathing Culture -- Alyson Wharton-Durgaryan | 'I Understood that He Is Entrusted to Serve Some Great Business Undertaking': Armenian Architects Reshaping the Ottoman East in the Hamidian Era (1876-1909) -- Part 3. Ceramics -- Scott Redford | The Shelf Life of Port Saint Symeon Ceramics: Evidence from Kinet Höyük -- Rosalind Wade Haddon | Trade and Innovation Seen through Mamluk, Ilkhanid, and Golden Horde Imitation Celadon Wares -- Sami de Giosa | Decorative Tiles in Egypt and Greater Syria during the Reign of Sultan Qaytbay (r.1468-1496) -- Filiz Yenişehirlioğlu | Representation of Lyrical Beauty: The Image of a Courtesan at the Topkapı Palace in the Seventeenth Century -- George Manginis | Armenian Patrons for Chinese Commodities: Trade Networks and Cultural Exchange across Asia.

Melanie Gibson | Colouring the Surface: A Taste for 'Persian' Tiles in English Domestic Architecture, 1870-1914 -- Part 4. Book Arts and Painting -- Mehreen Chida-Razvi | A Sultan Before the Padshah? Questioning the Identification of the Turbaned Figure in Jahangir Preferring a Sufi Shaykh to Kings -- Alison Ohta | The Bindings of Qansuh al-Ghawri -- J.M. Rogers | 'A Sacred Tree': A Paper Collage in the Khalili Collection -- Malini Roy | Historical Portraits of Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb 'Alamgir I (r. 1658-1707) -- Part 5. Material Culture -- Javad Golmohammadi | The Art of Iranian Decorative Veneer, Khātam-kāri -- Maria Sardi | Swimming across the Weft: Fish Motifs on Mamluk Textiles -- Tim Stanley | Double Orientalism: European Lacquer and its Unacknowledged Debt to Iran -- Contributors.