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Author:

Hamdouni Alami, Mohammed.

Title:

Art and architecture in the Islamic tradition : aesthetics, politics and desire in early Islam / Mohammed Hamdouni Alami.

Publisher:

I.B. Tauris ;

Copyright Date:

2011

Description:

xiii, 289 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Islamic art--History and criticism.
Islamic architecture--History and criticism.
Islamic art--Themes, motives.
Islamic architecture--Themes, motives.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-279) and index.

Contents:

Introduction. Architecture and poetics ; The aims of this book -- Architecture and meaning in the theory of al-Jāḥiẓ. Architecture and meaning : al-Jāḥiẓ's view ; Aesthetic, variety and emotion ; Voice, body and emotion ; Al-Bayān, architecture and commemoration -- Architecture and poetics. Modus operandi ; Al-Khalil's theory of language ; Arabic poetics ; The palace and the Qaṣīda -- Architecture and myth. Ḥadīthu Sinimmār -- Al-Jāḥiẓ in the mosque at Damascus : social critique and debate in the history Umayyad architecture. Yaqubi's account ; Muqaddasi's account ; Architecture and hospitality ; 'Umar II : architecture and piety -- Architecture and desire. "Architects" or architectural planners ; The desire for architecture ; Architecture and misrecognition ; The travelling gaze : Ibn al-Jahm's eulogy of the palace al-Haruni ; Building, reflection and emptiness -- Conclusion.

Series:

Library of modern Middle East studies ; 104.

ISBN:

1848855443
9781848855441

OCLC:

(OCoLC)662406164

LCCN:

2011281631

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)