The iconography of Islamic art : studies in honour of Robert Hillenbrand /: studies in honour of Robert Hillenbrand. ([2019?])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Bernard O'Kane.
• Other Names: O'Kane, Bernard; Hillenbrand, Robert
• Contents: Birds and blessings: a Kohl-pot from Jerusalem / Sylvia Auld -- Remarks on the iconography of the Medieval capitals of Cairo: form and emplacement / Marianne Barrucand -- A Mongol envoy / Sheila S. Blair -- Almoravid geometric designs in the pavement of the Cappella Palatina in Palermo / Jonathan M. Bloom -- A kingly posture: the iconography of Sultan Husayn Bayqara / Barbara Brend -- Musical beasts: the Swan-Phoenix in the Ibn Bakhtishu Bestiaries / Anna Contadini -- Cup, branch, bird and fish: an iconographical study of the figure holding a cup and a branch flanked by a bird and a fish / Abbas Daneshvari -- Islamic incense-burners and the influence of Buddhist art / Geza Fehervari -- Vine ornament and pomegranates as palace decoration in Anjar / Barbara Finster -- Persianate trends in Sultanate architecture: the great Mosque of Bada'un / Finbarr Barry Flood -- Silks, pots and jugs: Al-Jahiz and objects of common use / Oleg Grabar -- Khusrau Parviz as champion of Shi'ism? A closer look at an early Safavid miniature painting in the Royal Museum of Edinburgh / Ulrike al-Khamis -- 'Waves of the sea': responses to marble in written sources (ninth-fifteenth centuries) / Marcus Milwright -- The arboreal aesthetic: landscape, painting and architecture from Mongol Iran to Mamluk Egypt / Bernard O'Kane -- The vicissitudes of Rustam / B.W. Robinson -- Made for the show: the medieval treasury of the Ka'ba in Mecca / Avinoam Shalem -- A pictorial representation of the Hadith al-thaqualayn in an Ilkhanid copy of Bal'ami's Tarjuma-yi tarikh-i Tabari in the Freer Gallery / Raya Y. Shani -- Style verus substance: the Christian iconography on two vessels made for the Ayyubid Sultan al-Salih Ayyub / Rachel Ward.
• Publisher Details: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press
• Publication Date: 2019
• Copyright Date: 2005
• Extent: 1 online resource (xiii, 336 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 709.1767; Islamic art; Islamic architecture; Islamic architecture; Islamic art; RELIGION / Islam / General; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781474471428; 1474471420
• Related ISBNs: 9780748633678; 0748633677; 9780748620906; 0748620907
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.