Arab Painting : Text and Image in Illustrated Arabic Manuscripts.
Arab painting, preserved mainly in manuscript illustrations of the 12th to 14th centuries, is here treated as an artistic corpus fully deserving of appreciation in its own terms, and not as a mere precursor to Persian painting. The book assembles papers by a distinguished list of scholars that illum...
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| Format: | eBook Electronic |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | Boston : BRILL, 2007. |
| Series: | Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 the near and Middle East Ser.
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| Local Note: | Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2022. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries. |
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Foreword (Craig Clunas)
- Introduction (and Acknowledgements) (Anna Contadini)
- Section I Theoretical Issues
- The Manuscript as a Whole (Anna Contadini)
- What does 'Arab Painting' Mean? (Oleg Grabar)
- Section 2 Scientific Manuscripts
- Art in the Name of Science: The Kitäb al-Diryäq in Text and Image (Jaclynne J. Kerner)
- Text and Illustrations. Dioscorides and the Illustrated Herbal in the Arab Tradition (Michael J. Rogers)
- Elusive Giraffes: Ibn Abi l-hawäfir's Badäi al-Akwän and Other Animal Books (Remke Kruk)
- Mapping the Mnemonic: A Late Thirteenth-Century Copy of al-sufï's Book of the Constellations (Moya Carey)
- From Iraq to Fars: Tracking Cultural Transformations in the 1322 Qazwīnī 'Ajā'ib Manuscript (Persis Berlekamp)
- Section 3 Literary Manuscripts
- The Earliest Islamic Illustrated Manuscript, the Maqāmāt and a Graveyard at Suhār, Oman (Geoffrey R. D. King)
- Love Localized and Science from Afar: 'Arab Painting', Iberian Courtly Culture, and the Hadïth Bayäd wa Riyäd (Vat. Ar. Ris. 368) (Cynthia Robinson)
- The Schefer Harïrï: A Study in Islamic Frontispiece Design (Robert Hillenbrand)
- The Uses of Captions in Medieval Literary Arabic Manuscripts (Bernard O'Kane)
- Section 4 The European Connection
- Anatomical Illustration in Arabic Manuscripts (Emilie Savage-Smith)
- The 'Translation' of Diagrams and Illustrations from Arabic into Latin (Charles Burnett)
- Introductory Bibliography
- Plates
- Index.