Research Catalog

Title

Sifting sands, reading signs : studies in honour of Professor Géza Fehérvárí / edited by Patricia L. Baker and Barbara Brend.

Publication

London : Furnace Publishing, 2006.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Baker, Patricia L.
• Brend, Barbara, 1940-
• Fehérvári, Géza.

Description

xxi, 249 p., 16 p. of plates : ill. (some col.),plans, port.; 26 cm.

Subject

• Fehérvári, Géza
• Islamic art

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Beauty in the eyes of al-Ghazali / Wijdan Ali -- Timur's Qur'an: a reappraisal / Sheila Blair, Jonathan M. Bloom -- A 'Khamsah' of Nizami of 1420 -- a stage on two journeys / Barbara Brend -- Kashf al-Asrar 'The disclosure of secrets' -- some thoughts on later Mamluk painting / Duncan Haldane -- Symbolism in the work of the Kuwaiti artist Thuraya al-Baqsami / Barbara Michalak-Pikulska -- The calligrapher-illuminator: the hybrid vigour / Nabil Safwat -- Ottoman poetry in Safavid garb: pictures in a 'Diwan' of Mahmud Abd al-Baki / Eleanor Sims -- Two Ghaznavid way-stations and some 'platteresque' refurbishment / A.D.H. Bivar -- The cenotaph in Imamzada Habib b. Musa, Kashan: does it mark the grave of Shah Abbas I? / Javad Golmohammadi -- The Qubbat al-Sulaybiyya and its interpretation / Alastair Northedge -- Early Bahmani Mihrabs in Gulbarga, Deccan / Helen Philon -- The Solomonic theme in the decorative and epigraphical programmes of the Dome of the Rock / Raya Y. Shani --^
• The Indian 'Idgah and its Persian prototype: the 'Namazgah' or 'Musalla' / Mehrdad Shokoohy, Natalie H. Shokoohy -- Karaite origins in Lithuania and in Poland, according to Professor Seraja Shapsala / Harry T. Norris -- Blossoms and pomegranates: silk embroideries of the Ottoman Empire / Penny Oakley -- The marsh Arabs of Iraq -- a memoir of their life, their dwellings and their embroideries / Jehan Rajab -- Persian carpet design in the 16th and 17th centuries: creativity and practicalities / Jennifer Wearden -- A late Mamluk oil lamp in the Hungarian National Museum / Doris Behrens-Abouseif -- Narcissism or catoptromancy? -- mirrors from the medieval eastern Islamic world / Stefano Carboni -- Some liberated Persian figures on Safavid blue and white ceramics / Yolande Crowe -- From Mashu to Qaf: the iconography of a Minai bowl / Abbas Daneshvari -- A magic bowl from India in the Tareq Rajab Museum / Alexander Fodor --^
• Ottoman rings in the collections of the Hungarian National Museum / Ibolya Gerelyes -- Pomegranates, lychees, or loquats: an offering of Timurid-Chinese fruits / Ernst J. Grube -- The Islamic re-working of the Sasanian heritage: two case studies / Robert Hillenbrand -- Lustre waters: attribution, provenance and art-historical politics / Oliver Watson.

ISBN

0955026601 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 70059224
• SCSB-10477941

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library