Author: Furusiyya Art Foundation
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : fr
Pages : 434
Book Description
La Furusiyya Art Foundation a lancé sa collection d'art islamique, notamment pour les pièces en rapport avec le chevalier musulman, au début des années 1980. Son but était de réunir un matériel significatif des premiers temps de l'Islam et des premières dynasties. Aujourd'hui, la collection comprend de belles pièces des VIIIe-IXe siècles, en particulier des époques sâmânide, ghaznavide et seljuqide, jusqu'aux XVe, XVIe et XVIIe siècle. Les plus anciens pommeaux et gardes d'épée de même que les tout premiers sabres contribuent à établir une typologie des armes blanches. La collection possède aussi des boucliers en roseau et un ensemble en rapport avec l'archerie, sans parler des armures destinées tant à l'homme qu'à son cheval. Elle est également représentative dans les domaines des poignards et des ceintures qu'arboraient les hommes de cour et les chevaliers. Ainsi, en plus de son intérêt scientifique, la collection se distingue par son corpus à la fois précieux, raffiné et esthétique.Elle peut prétendre détenir un fonds qui ne se rencontre pas dans d'autres collections, publiques ou privées. Cet ouvrage présente quasiment la moitié des œuvres appartenant à la fondation.
L'art des chevaliers en pays d'Islam
Author: Furusiyya Art Foundation
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : fr
Pages : 434
Book Description
La Furusiyya Art Foundation a lancé sa collection d'art islamique, notamment pour les pièces en rapport avec le chevalier musulman, au début des années 1980. Son but était de réunir un matériel significatif des premiers temps de l'Islam et des premières dynasties. Aujourd'hui, la collection comprend de belles pièces des VIIIe-IXe siècles, en particulier des époques sâmânide, ghaznavide et seljuqide, jusqu'aux XVe, XVIe et XVIIe siècle. Les plus anciens pommeaux et gardes d'épée de même que les tout premiers sabres contribuent à établir une typologie des armes blanches. La collection possède aussi des boucliers en roseau et un ensemble en rapport avec l'archerie, sans parler des armures destinées tant à l'homme qu'à son cheval. Elle est également représentative dans les domaines des poignards et des ceintures qu'arboraient les hommes de cour et les chevaliers. Ainsi, en plus de son intérêt scientifique, la collection se distingue par son corpus à la fois précieux, raffiné et esthétique.Elle peut prétendre détenir un fonds qui ne se rencontre pas dans d'autres collections, publiques ou privées. Cet ouvrage présente quasiment la moitié des œuvres appartenant à la fondation.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : fr
Pages : 434
Book Description
La Furusiyya Art Foundation a lancé sa collection d'art islamique, notamment pour les pièces en rapport avec le chevalier musulman, au début des années 1980. Son but était de réunir un matériel significatif des premiers temps de l'Islam et des premières dynasties. Aujourd'hui, la collection comprend de belles pièces des VIIIe-IXe siècles, en particulier des époques sâmânide, ghaznavide et seljuqide, jusqu'aux XVe, XVIe et XVIIe siècle. Les plus anciens pommeaux et gardes d'épée de même que les tout premiers sabres contribuent à établir une typologie des armes blanches. La collection possède aussi des boucliers en roseau et un ensemble en rapport avec l'archerie, sans parler des armures destinées tant à l'homme qu'à son cheval. Elle est également représentative dans les domaines des poignards et des ceintures qu'arboraient les hommes de cour et les chevaliers. Ainsi, en plus de son intérêt scientifique, la collection se distingue par son corpus à la fois précieux, raffiné et esthétique.Elle peut prétendre détenir un fonds qui ne se rencontre pas dans d'autres collections, publiques ou privées. Cet ouvrage présente quasiment la moitié des œuvres appartenant à la fondation.
The Dragon in Medieval East Christian and Islamic Art
Author: Sara Kuehn
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004209727
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
This book is a pioneering work on a key iconographic motif, that of the dragon. It examines the perception of this complex, multifaceted motif within the overall intellectual and visual universe of the medieval Irano-Turkish world. Using a broadly comparative approach, the author explores the ever-shifting semantics of the dragon motif as it emerges in neighbouring Muslim and non-Muslim cultures. The book will be of particular interest to those concerned with the relationship between the pre-Islamic, Islamic and Eastern Christian (especially Armenian) world. The study is fully illustrated, with 209 (b/w and full colour) plates, many of previously unpublished material. Illustrations include photographs of architectural structures visited by the author, as well as a vast collection of artefacts, all of which are described and discussed in detail with inscription readings, historical data and textual sources.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004209727
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
This book is a pioneering work on a key iconographic motif, that of the dragon. It examines the perception of this complex, multifaceted motif within the overall intellectual and visual universe of the medieval Irano-Turkish world. Using a broadly comparative approach, the author explores the ever-shifting semantics of the dragon motif as it emerges in neighbouring Muslim and non-Muslim cultures. The book will be of particular interest to those concerned with the relationship between the pre-Islamic, Islamic and Eastern Christian (especially Armenian) world. The study is fully illustrated, with 209 (b/w and full colour) plates, many of previously unpublished material. Illustrations include photographs of architectural structures visited by the author, as well as a vast collection of artefacts, all of which are described and discussed in detail with inscription readings, historical data and textual sources.
ARAM 26 Black & White Paperback
Author: ARAM SOCIETY
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 132671743X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
This volume comprises the proceedings of the 2014 Conferences on Zoroastrianism in the Levant and the Amorites, held at Oxford, Oriental Institute.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 132671743X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
This volume comprises the proceedings of the 2014 Conferences on Zoroastrianism in the Levant and the Amorites, held at Oxford, Oriental Institute.
The Forgotten Diaspora
Author: Peter Mark
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107667461
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
This book traces the history of early seventeenth-century Portuguese Sephardic traders who settled in two communities on Senegal's Petite Côte. There, they lived as public Jews, under the spiritual guidance of a rabbi sent to them by the newly established Portuguese Jewish community in Amsterdam. In Senegal, the Jews were protected from agents of the Inquisition by local Muslim rulers. The Petite Côte communities included several Jews of mixed Portuguese-African heritage as well as African wives, offspring, and servants. The blade weapons trade was an important part of their commercial activities. These merchants participated marginally in the slave trade but fully in the arms trade, illegally supplying West African markets with swords. This blade weapons trade depended on artisans and merchants based in Morocco, Lisbon, and northern Europe and affected warfare in the Sahel and along the Upper Guinea Coast. After members of these communities moved to the United Provinces around 1620, they had a profound influence on relations between black and white Jews in Amsterdam. The study not only discovers previously unknown Jewish communities but by doing so offers a reinterpretation of the dynamics and processes of identity construction throughout the Atlantic world.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107667461
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
This book traces the history of early seventeenth-century Portuguese Sephardic traders who settled in two communities on Senegal's Petite Côte. There, they lived as public Jews, under the spiritual guidance of a rabbi sent to them by the newly established Portuguese Jewish community in Amsterdam. In Senegal, the Jews were protected from agents of the Inquisition by local Muslim rulers. The Petite Côte communities included several Jews of mixed Portuguese-African heritage as well as African wives, offspring, and servants. The blade weapons trade was an important part of their commercial activities. These merchants participated marginally in the slave trade but fully in the arms trade, illegally supplying West African markets with swords. This blade weapons trade depended on artisans and merchants based in Morocco, Lisbon, and northern Europe and affected warfare in the Sahel and along the Upper Guinea Coast. After members of these communities moved to the United Provinces around 1620, they had a profound influence on relations between black and white Jews in Amsterdam. The study not only discovers previously unknown Jewish communities but by doing so offers a reinterpretation of the dynamics and processes of identity construction throughout the Atlantic world.
Bibliography of Art and Architecture in the Islamic World (2 vols.)
Author: Susan Sinclair
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047412079
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1508
Book Description
Following the tradition and style of the acclaimed Index Islamicus, the editors have created this new Bibliography of Art and Architecture in the Islamic World. The editors have surveyed and annotated a wide range of books and articles from collected volumes and journals published in all European languages (except Turkish) between 1906 and 2011. This comprehensive bibliography is an indispensable tool for everyone involved in the study of material culture in Muslim societies.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047412079
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1508
Book Description
Following the tradition and style of the acclaimed Index Islamicus, the editors have created this new Bibliography of Art and Architecture in the Islamic World. The editors have surveyed and annotated a wide range of books and articles from collected volumes and journals published in all European languages (except Turkish) between 1906 and 2011. This comprehensive bibliography is an indispensable tool for everyone involved in the study of material culture in Muslim societies.
The Mamluk Sultanate
Author: Carl F. Petry
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108618006
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 379
Book Description
The Mamluk Sultanate ruled Egypt, Syria and the Arabian hinterland along the Red Sea. Lasting from the deposition of the Ayyubid dynasty (c. 1250) to the Ottoman conquest of Egypt in 1517, this regime of slave-soldiers incorporated many of the political structures and cultural traditions of its Fatimid and Ayyubid predecessors. Yet its system of governance and centralisation of authority represented radical departures from the hierarchies of power that predated it. Providing a rich and comprehensive survey of events from the Sultanate's founding to the Ottoman occupation, this interdisciplinary book explores the Sultanate's identity and heritage after the Mongol conquests, the expedience of conspiratorial politics, and the close symbiosis of the military elite and civil bureaucracy. Carl F. Petry also considers the statecraft, foreign policy, economy and cultural legacy of the Sultanate, and its interaction with polities throughout the central Islamic world and beyond. In doing so, Petry reveals how the Mamluk Sultanate can be regarded as a significant experiment in the history of state-building within the pre-modern Islamic world.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108618006
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 379
Book Description
The Mamluk Sultanate ruled Egypt, Syria and the Arabian hinterland along the Red Sea. Lasting from the deposition of the Ayyubid dynasty (c. 1250) to the Ottoman conquest of Egypt in 1517, this regime of slave-soldiers incorporated many of the political structures and cultural traditions of its Fatimid and Ayyubid predecessors. Yet its system of governance and centralisation of authority represented radical departures from the hierarchies of power that predated it. Providing a rich and comprehensive survey of events from the Sultanate's founding to the Ottoman occupation, this interdisciplinary book explores the Sultanate's identity and heritage after the Mongol conquests, the expedience of conspiratorial politics, and the close symbiosis of the military elite and civil bureaucracy. Carl F. Petry also considers the statecraft, foreign policy, economy and cultural legacy of the Sultanate, and its interaction with polities throughout the central Islamic world and beyond. In doing so, Petry reveals how the Mamluk Sultanate can be regarded as a significant experiment in the history of state-building within the pre-modern Islamic world.
Islamic Arms and Armor in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Author: David G. Alexander
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 1588395707
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Armor and weaponry were central to Islamic culture not only as a means of conquest and the spread of the faith, but also as symbols of status, wealth, and power. The finest arms were made by master craftsmen working with the leading designers, goldsmiths, and jewelers, whose work transformed utilitarian military equipment into courtly works of art. This book reveals the diversity and artistic quality of one of the most important and encyclopedic collections of its kind in the West. The Metropolitan Museum's holdings span ten centuries and include representative pieces from almost every Islamic culture from Spain to the Caucasus. The collection includes rare early works, among them the oldest documented Islamic sword, and is rich in helmets and body armor, decorated with calligraphy and arabesques, that were worn in Iran and Anatolia in the late fifteenth century. Other masterpieces include a jeweled short sword (yatagan) with a blade of "watered" steel that comes from the court of Süleyman the Magnificent, a seventeenth-century gold-inlaid armor associated with Shah Jahan, and two gold-inlaid flintlock firearms belonging to the guard of Tipu Sultan of Mysore. Presenting 126 objects, each handsomely photographed and richly documented with a detailed description and discussion of its technical, historical, and artistic importance, this overview of the Met's holdings is supplemented by an introductory essay on the formation of the collection, and appendixes on iconography and on Turkman-style armor.
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 1588395707
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Armor and weaponry were central to Islamic culture not only as a means of conquest and the spread of the faith, but also as symbols of status, wealth, and power. The finest arms were made by master craftsmen working with the leading designers, goldsmiths, and jewelers, whose work transformed utilitarian military equipment into courtly works of art. This book reveals the diversity and artistic quality of one of the most important and encyclopedic collections of its kind in the West. The Metropolitan Museum's holdings span ten centuries and include representative pieces from almost every Islamic culture from Spain to the Caucasus. The collection includes rare early works, among them the oldest documented Islamic sword, and is rich in helmets and body armor, decorated with calligraphy and arabesques, that were worn in Iran and Anatolia in the late fifteenth century. Other masterpieces include a jeweled short sword (yatagan) with a blade of "watered" steel that comes from the court of Süleyman the Magnificent, a seventeenth-century gold-inlaid armor associated with Shah Jahan, and two gold-inlaid flintlock firearms belonging to the guard of Tipu Sultan of Mysore. Presenting 126 objects, each handsomely photographed and richly documented with a detailed description and discussion of its technical, historical, and artistic importance, this overview of the Met's holdings is supplemented by an introductory essay on the formation of the collection, and appendixes on iconography and on Turkman-style armor.
Warfare in the Norman Mediterranean
Author: Georgios Theotokis
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1783275219
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
Analyses of different aspects of the history of warfare in the Mediterranean in the eleventh and twelfth centuries.
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1783275219
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
Analyses of different aspects of the history of warfare in the Mediterranean in the eleventh and twelfth centuries.
Three Empires of Islam
Author: Musée du Louvre
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Decorative arts, Islamic
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Decorative arts, Islamic
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
Three Capitals of Islamic Art
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art, Islamic
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art, Islamic
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description