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

Main entry:

Tabbaa, Yasser, 1948-

Title & Author:

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

Publication:

Description:

xiii, 210 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Series:

Publications on the Near East

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.

Summary:

"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.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

0295981253 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780295981253 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0295981334 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780295981338 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0295996323
9780295996325

Subject:

Decoration and ornament, Architectural Middle East.
Islamic architecture Middle East.
Architecture, Medieval Middle East.
Islamic decoration and ornament Middle East.
Decoration and ornament, Medieval Middle East.
Décoration et ornement architecturaux Moyen-Orient.
Architecture islamique Moyen-Orient.
Architecture médiévale Moyen-Orient.
Décoration et ornement islamiques Moyen-Orient.
Décoration et ornement médiévaux Moyen-Orient.
Architecture, Medieval.
Decoration and ornament, Architectural.
Decoration and ornament, Medieval.
Islamic architecture.
Islamic decoration and ornament.
Islamische Kunst
Islamitische kunst.
Ornamentiek.
Islamitische bouwkunst.
Middle East.

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Publications on the Near East, University of Washington.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 222080
Call No.: NA3573 .T3 2001
Status: Available

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