This richly illustrated volume highlights the history of Islamic cosmopolitanism as documented through works of art from the eighth century to the present; from the Mediterranean, North Africa, South Asia, and the United States; and including painting, architecture, textiles, calligraphy, photography, and animation.
This richly illustrated volume highlights the history of Islamic cosmopolitanism as documented through works of art from the eighth century to the present; from the Mediterranean, North Africa, South Asia, and the United States; and including painting, architecture, textiles, calligraphy, photography, and animation.
Melia Belli Bose, associate professor of South Asian art history at the University of Victoria, is the author of Royal Umbrellas of Stone: Memory, Politics, and Public Identity in Rajput Funerary Art and editor of Women, Gender and Art in Asia, c. 1500–1900.
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* Acknowledgments * Introduction: Islamicate Art and Inter-faith Intersections * Melia Belli Bose * 1. An Inscribed Jug from Raqqa: Scripture and the Expression of Identity * Marcus Milwright * 2. Intersecting Sicily * William Tronzo * 3. A Crossroads of Travel: Cairo's Historic Qarafa Cemetery * Aliaa El Sandouby * 4. Setting the Elite Table across the Byzantine-Seljug Divide * Alicia Walker * 5. Ink, Blood, and Body: Transmission and Ritual Purity in the Early Modern Western Mediterranean * Manuela Ceballos * 6. The Story of Plato Making Music and a Multifaceted Mughal Organ * Mika Natif * 7. Woven Together: Textiles and Trans-Saharan Exchange * Michelle Huntington Craig * 8. Cosmopolitan Interiors: Syrian 'ajami Rooms and an American Reinterpretation at Frederic Church's Olana * Elizabeth McCauley-Lewis * 9. Articulations of the Illustrated Manuscript: Shahzia Sikander's Disruption As Rapture * Vivek Gupta * Chapter 10: Bridging Identity: Language, World Making, and Iranian-American Publics in the Work of Siah Armajani * Elizabeth Rauh * List of Contributors * Index
* Acknowledgments * Introduction: Islamicate Art and Inter-faith Intersections * Melia Belli Bose * 1. An Inscribed Jug from Raqqa: Scripture and the Expression of Identity * Marcus Milwright * 2. Intersecting Sicily * William Tronzo * 3. A Crossroads of Travel: Cairo's Historic Qarafa Cemetery * Aliaa El Sandouby * 4. Setting the Elite Table across the Byzantine-Seljug Divide * Alicia Walker * 5. Ink, Blood, and Body: Transmission and Ritual Purity in the Early Modern Western Mediterranean * Manuela Ceballos * 6. The Story of Plato Making Music and a Multifaceted Mughal Organ * Mika Natif * 7. Woven Together: Textiles and Trans-Saharan Exchange * Michelle Huntington Craig * 8. Cosmopolitan Interiors: Syrian 'ajami Rooms and an American Reinterpretation at Frederic Church's Olana * Elizabeth McCauley-Lewis * 9. Articulations of the Illustrated Manuscript: Shahzia Sikander's Disruption As Rapture * Vivek Gupta * Chapter 10: Bridging Identity: Language, World Making, and Iranian-American Publics in the Work of Siah Armajani * Elizabeth Rauh * List of Contributors * Index
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