The transformation of Islamic art during the Sunni revival / Yasser Tabbaa.

By:

Tabbaa, Yasser, 1948-

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Publications on the Near East, University of WashingtonPublisher: Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2001]Copyright date: ©2001Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 210 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780295803937
0295803932

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Transformation of Islamic art during the Sunni revivalDDC classification:

729/.0917/67109021 22

LOC classification:

NA3573 .T33 2001eb

Other classification:

20.50
EH 5500
LH 65960

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Contents:

1. The Sunni Revival -- 2. The Transformation of Qur'anic Writing -- 3. The Public Text -- 4. The Girih Mode: Vegetal and Geometric Arabesque -- 5. Muqarnas Vaulting and Ash'ari Occasionalism -- 6. Stone Muqarnas and Other Special Devices -- 7. The Mediation of Symbolic Forms.

Review: "The transformation of Islamic architecture and ornament during the eleventh and twelfth centuries signaled profound cultural changes in the Islamic world. Yasser Tabbaa explores with exemplary lucidity the geometric techniques that facilitated this transformation, and investigates the cultural processes by which meaning was produced within the new forms. Iran, Iraq, and Syria saw the development of proportional calligraphy, vegetal and geometric arabesque, muqarnas (stalactite) vaulting, and other devices that became defining features of medieval Islamic architecture.Summary: Ultimately, the forms and themes described in this book shaped the development of Mamluk architecture in Egypt and Syria, and by extension, the entire course of North African and Andalusian architecture as well."--Jacket

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"The transformation of Islamic architecture and ornament during the eleventh and twelfth centuries signaled profound cultural changes in the Islamic world. Yasser Tabbaa explores with exemplary lucidity the geometric techniques that facilitated this transformation, and investigates the cultural processes by which meaning was produced within the new forms. Iran, Iraq, and Syria saw the development of proportional calligraphy, vegetal and geometric arabesque, muqarnas (stalactite) vaulting, and other devices that became defining features of medieval Islamic architecture.

Ultimately, the forms and themes described in this book shaped the development of Mamluk architecture in Egypt and Syria, and by extension, the entire course of North African and Andalusian architecture as well."--Jacket

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