Image and Meaning in Islamic Art

Image and Meaning in Islamic Art

Robert Hillenbrand

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Product ID: RP-4-0003
Status: Available

Illustrator: None
Format: 260 x 200 mm
Pages: 320
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Altajir World of Islam Trust, UK
Year: 2005
ISBN 10: 1-901435-12-1
ISBN 13: 978-1-901435-12-2

ABOUT THIS BOOK

The studies in this volume, written by a range of eminent experts explore aspects of Islamic art from the standpoint not of style, provenance, aesthetic quality of historical context, but of what these images mean. Individually, these studies propose new explanations of familiar material. Corporately, however, they achieve something more, for they demonstrate a range of complementary techniques of interpretation, thereby mapping out directions for future iconographic analyses of Islamic art.

Two contributions by Professor Ernst Grube underpin the volume. The first traces how the study of Islamic iconography evolved. The second is truly groundbreaking: an extensive listing of titles on Islamic iconography, thematically divided and running to some 160 double-columned pages. This bibliography will immediately become an indispensable resource for all Islamic art historians, and will open up their field in many new ways.

Contents:

FOREWORD - Robert Hillenbrand
NEW LIGHT ON ISLAMIC ICONOGRAPHY - Robert Hillenbrand
ICONOGRAPHY IN ISLAMIC ART - Ernst Grube
SOLAR AND CELESTIAL SYMBOLISM IN MEDIEVAL ISLAMIC ART -
James Allan
THE MINBAR OF AL-AQSA. FORM AND FUNCTION - Sylvia Auld
MIGHTINESS, ECSTASY AND CONTROL: SOME GENERAL FEATURES OF ISLAMIC ARTS - Johann-Christoph Bürgel
A ROYAL DRINKING SCENE FROM ALCHI: IRANIAN ICONOGRAPHY IN THE WESTERN HIMALAYAS - Finbarr B Flood
EARLY MEDIEVAL ISLAMIC COURT LIFE: THE EVIDENCE OF THE LITERARY SOURCES - c Abd al-Rahman Gailani†
PARADISE GLIMPSED BY THE MUSLIM BELIEVER AT PRAYER - Raya Y Shani
THE ICONOGRAPHY OF THE ILLUSTRATED TIMURID ZAFARN b MA
MANUSCRIPTS - Eleanor Sims
FIRE-MAKING, AND ITS INFLUENCE ON THE BACKGROUND TO SOME MYSTERIOUS ICONOGRAPHY IN MEDIEVAL ISLAMIC ART - Marian Wenzel†
A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ICONOGRAPHY IN ISLAMIC ART - Ernst J Grube

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Professor Robert Hillenbrand was educated at the universities of Cambridge and Oxford; he has been teaching at the Department of Fine Art, University of Edinburgh, since 1971 and was awarded a chair of Islamic Art in 1989.

His travels have taken him throughout the Islamic world. He has held visiting professorships at Princeton, UCLA, Bamberg and Dartmouth College and Groningen. He has written, co-written or edited many books on Islamic art and architecture He has also published over a hundred articles on aspects of Islamic art and architecture.

In 1977 he curated one of the largest exhibitions of Persian miniature painting ever held. His scholarly interests focus on Islamic architecture, painting and iconography, with particular reference to Iran and to Umayyad Syria.

He has served on the editorial boards of Art History, Persica, Asaph, Bulletin of the Asia Institute and Oxford Studies in Islamic Art, and on the Councils of the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem, British Research in the Levant, and the British Institute of Persian Studies (Vice-President).

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