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.

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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)
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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.