ISBN:
9780300158991
Language:
English
Pages:
IX, 364 S.
,
überw. Ill.
DDC:
700.91767
Keywords:
Water in art Congresses
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Arts, Islamic Congresses
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Water and architecture Congresses
;
Islamic countries
;
Water and civilization Congresses
;
Water in art Congresses
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Islamic arts Congresses
;
Water and architecture Congresses
;
Water and civilization Congresses
;
Konferenzschrift 2007
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Islamische Kunst
;
Wasser
;
Geschichte
;
Islam
;
Architektur
;
Brunnen
;
Geschichte
;
Islam
;
Kultur
;
Wasser
;
Symbol
;
Geschichte
;
Islamische Staaten
;
Kunst
;
Wasser
Abstract:
Foreword / Richard E. Toscan -- Introduction / Sheila Blair and Jonathan Bloom -- Gardens beneath which rivers flow : the significance of water in classical Islamic culture / Carole Hillenbrand -- Control and abandon : images of water in Arabic poetry and gardens / Yasser Tabbaa -- From the heavens and hills : the flow of water to the fruited trees and ablution fountains in the Great Mosque of Córdoba / D. Fairchild Ruggles -- Sip, dip, and pour : toward a typology of water vessels in Islamic art / Linda Komaroff -- Stones to bring rain? : magical inscriptions in linear Kufic on rock crystal amulet-seals / Venetia Porter -- Charity and piety : Sabil-Kuttabs and the conception of water during the Mamluk period / Howayda al-Harithy -- Art, infrastructure, and devotion : Ottoman water architecture / Walter Denny -- Water on the ground : water systems in two Ottoman Greek port cities / Marcus Milwright and Evanthia Baboula -- Drinking-water as message : the sabil of Muhammad 'ali Pasha in Cairo / Agnieszka Dobrowolska -- Far from the desert : water traditions in the South Asian landscape / Catherine B. Asher -- Paradise flooded : water and architecture in Bangladesh / Perween Hasan -- Landscape and hardscape : historical problems and contemporary solutions to the scarcity of water in the Islamic world / Mohammad al-Asad
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction -- 1. Gardens beneath which rivers flow : the significance of water in classical Islamic culture -- 2. Control and abandon : images of water in Arabic poetry and gardens -- 3. Fruited trees and ablution fountains in the Great Mosque of Cordoba : the flow of water from landscape to monument -- 4. Toward a typology of water vessels in Islamic art : sip, dip, and pour -- 5. Water, magic and magical inscriptions on "frozen water" -- 6. Sabil-Kuttabs and the conception of water in Mamluk Cairo (1260-1517) -- 7. Architecture as a message : the Sabil of Muhammad 'Ali Pasha in Cairo -- 8. Water and water imagery in architecture and the arts in Ottoman times -- 9. The archeology of urban water systems in Ottoman Greece : the cases of Nafpaktos and Nafplio -- 10. Out of the desert : water traditions in the South Asian landscape -- 11. Paradise flooded : water and architecture in Bangladesh -- 12. Water scarcity and landscaping in the Islamic world : contemporary solutions to historical problems.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - The following essays are the written record of the Second Biennial Hamad bin Khalifa Symposium on Islamic Art and Culture, held at Virginia Commonwealth University's School of the Arts in Doha, Qatar (VCUQatar) from November 4 to November 6, 2007
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