Picturing Islam: Art and Ethics in a Muslim Lifeworld explores issues of religion, nationalism, ethnicity, and globalization through the life and work of the prominent contemporary Indonesian artist Abdul Djalil Pirous. This work: presents a unique addition to the anthropology o…
Om islamisk kunst, arkitektur, bogillustrationer, tekstiler, kunsthåndværk og dekorationer fra år 600 til idag.
The transformation of a vast area - from central Spain to the delta of the Indus and from the Sahara desert and the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean, the Caucasus, the Central Asian deserts, and the Hindu Kush - into a land controlled by Islam was accomplished within roughly a …
Islamic visual culture, 1100-1800
by Grabar, Oleg
fromConstructing the study of Islamic art
The 25 previously published articles collected in this volume (the second of three) present an easily accessible means to the work of Grabar, one of the founders of the study of Islamic art, archaeology, and architecture in the US. Grabar, for decades at Harvard and now at Princ…
For millennia the collection, distribution and symbolism of water have played pivotal roles in the lands where Islam has flourished. This book is the first to address this important subject. A diverse spectrum of scholars covers a wide range of topics: from the revelation of Isl…
The evolution of book art and painting in the Islamic world is the product of diverse regions and periods. Islamic art flourished in the great cities and centers of learning of the ottoman Turks, the Iranian Qajars, and the later Indian Mughals, spreading across a region that ex…
