The Art of the Qurʼan
Title | The Art of the Qurʼan PDF eBook |
Author | Massumeh Farhad |
Publisher | Smithsonian Institution |
Total Pages | 385 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1588345785 |
Published on the occasion of the exhibition The Art of the Qur'an: Treasures from the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts, Istanbul, held at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington, D.C., October 15, 2016-February 20, 2017.
Art of the Islamic World
Title | Art of the Islamic World PDF eBook |
Author | Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) |
Publisher | Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Total Pages | 241 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1588394824 |
Family guide, Dazzling details in folded front cover.
Islamic Art and Spirituality
Title | Islamic Art and Spirituality PDF eBook |
Author | Seyyed Hossein Nasr |
Publisher | SUNY Press |
Total Pages | 244 |
Release | 1987-02-12 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780887061752 |
This is the first book in the English language to deal with the spiritual significance of Islamic art including not only the plastic arts, but also literature and music. Rather than only dealing with the history of the various arts of Islam or their description, the author relates the form, content, symbolic language, meaning, and presence of these arts to the very sources of the Islamic revelation. Relying upon his extensive knowledge of the Islamic religion in both its exoteric and esoteric dimensions as well as the various Islamic sciences, the author relates Islamic art to the inner dimensions of the Islamic revelation and the spirituality which has issued from it. He brings out the spiritual significance of the Islamic arts ranging from architecture to music as seen, heard, and experienced by one living within the universe of the Islamic tradition. In this work the reader is made to understand the meaning of Islamic art for those living within the civilization which created it.
Islamic Art and Culture
Title | Islamic Art and Culture PDF eBook |
Author | Nasser D. Khalili |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 186 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Islamic Empire |
ISBN | 9789774161940 |
The artistic achievements of the Islamic world chronicled over fourteen centuries.
Art of Islam
Title | Art of Islam PDF eBook |
Author | Titus Burckhardt |
Publisher | World Wisdom, Inc |
Total Pages | 258 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1933316659 |
Islam.
Islamic Art in Context
Title | Islamic Art in Context PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Irwin |
Publisher | Prentice Hall |
Total Pages | 276 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN |
Robert Irwin delves deep into the cultures of the Islamic world to survey the exquisite arts of painting, architecture, porcelain, enamel, manuscript illumination, metalwork, calligraphy, textiles, and more. Including 217 illustrations, 148 in full color, the book covers the earliest foundations of Islam through the brilliant high point of the 17th century.
Studies in the Islamic Arts of the Book
Title | Studies in the Islamic Arts of the Book PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Hillenbrand |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Early printed books |
ISBN | 9781904597490 |
The studies collected in this volume, some of them rather difficult to access, date mostly from the last fifteen years and focus primarily on Persian book painting of the 14th to the early 16th centuries. In this period, Iran dominated the art of book painting in the Islamic world. The articles reprinted here examine various aspects of this, the golden age of Persian painting. They range from the period of Mongol rule, when the impact of Far Eastern themes and modes radically transformed the heritage bequeathed to Iran by Arab painting - a textbook case of the clash of civilisations - to the dawn of the modern era and the swansong of the classical style of Persian painting under the early Safavids. Yet other articles focus on the roots of book painting in the themes and styles developed in painted ceramics, on medieval Qur'anic calligraphy, on bookbinding and on the remarkably original variations played on the hitherto hackneyed theme of the figural frontispiece by Arab painters. Two major leitmotifs are explored in this selection of essays. One is provided by the constantly varying interpretations of the Shahnama (The Book of Kings), the Persian national epic, and especially the tendency of painters to interpret this familiar text in terms of contemporary politics. The other is the interplay of text and image, which highlights the tendency of painters to strike out on their own and to leave the literal text progressively further behind while they develop plots and sub-plots of their own. These enquiries are set within the context of a concerted effort to explore in detail how Persian painters achieved their most spectacular visual effects. In its combination of general surveys and closely focused analyses of individual manuscripts, this collection of articles will be of interest to specialists in book painting and in Islamic art as a whole. Contents: Preface The Uses of Space in Timurid Painting The Iconography of the Shah-nama-yi Shahi The Iskandar Cycle in the Great Mongol Shahnama Images of Muhammad in al-Biruni's Chronology of Ancient Nations The Arts of the Book in Ilkhanid Iran The paintings of Rashid al-Din's 'Universal History' at Edinburgh Mamluk and Ilkhanid Bestiaries: Convention and Experiment The Qur'an Illuminated The relationship between book painting and luxury ceramics in 13th-century Iran, The Message of Misfortune Literature and the visual arts; New Perspectives in Shahnama Iconography Erudition exalted: the double frontispiece to The Epistles of the Sincere Brethren The Shahnama and the illustrated book Islamic Bookbinding Index