Research Catalog

Title

The environment and ecology in Islamic art & culture / edited by Radha Dalal, Sean Roberts, and Jochen Sokoly.

Publication

• New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, 2023.
• ©2023

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Details

Additional Authors

• Dalal, Radha
• Roberts, Sean E.
• Sokoly, Jochen A. (Jochen Artur)

Description

277 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, plans, portraits; 30 cm

Summary

"The Islamic world finds itself increasingly at the epicenter of our escalating climate emergency, both as a locus of the petrochemical industry and as home to extraordinary landscapes in which the effects of environmental transformation are acutely felt. Yet, far from a solely twenty-first-century concern, engagement with changing, and often extreme, natural conditions has long characterized Islamic art and architecture in the central Islamic lands and beyond into the Muslim diaspora. This new book brings together a diverse group of scholars and critics whose contributions address this profound ecological awareness through the dual lenses of Islamic culture and climate change. Their case studies range from the Gulf, Iraq, Syria, the Indian Subcontinent, North Africa, and even outer space. Contributors examine the optimistic, sustainable, and innovative responses adopted by artists and builders in the face of often irreversible and escalating environmental destruction that necessitates such ingenuity. Breaking traditional disciplinary boundaries, this timely book brings together a diverse range of perspectives to bear on this increasingly urgent problem"--

Alternative Title

Environment and ecology in Islamic art and culture

Subject

• Islamic art > Environmental aspects
• Islamic architecture > Environmental aspects
• Climatic changes > Middle East
• Climatic changes
• Middle East

Note

• "In association with Qatar Foundation, Virginia Commonwealth University, and Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts in Qatar."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Shaykhi's moth : small creatures in fifteenth-century Persian painting -- The quest for thermal delight -- Cultivars and catastrophes in al-Andalus : on nature and human will -- The floating mosque, environmental change, and Muslim material ethics -- Visualizing the marshes in Mayzara : a material history of urban wetlands in Baghdad -- War ecology : petropolitics, contemporary art, and the Middle East -- "A luminous golden spirit owns us" : legal sculpting and the rights of nature -- Survival by design : oil crisis, the Middle East, and the quest for lunar settlements -- Behind the sun : the theater of oil expenditure -- Landscapes of Arabia : Tarek Al-Ghoussein and camille Zakharia.

Call Number

JQF 23-1510

ISBN

• 9780300267495
• 0300267495

LCCN

2022942811

OCLC

1346949458

Title

The environment and ecology in Islamic art & culture / edited by Radha Dalal, Sean Roberts, and Jochen Sokoly.

Publisher

New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, 2023.

Copyright Date

©2023

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Dalal, Radha, editor.

Roberts, Sean E., editor.

Sokoly, Jochen A. (Jochen Artur), editor.

Research Call Number

JQF 23-1510