Research Catalog
Syria matters
- Title
- Syria matters / [Rania Abdellatif, Julia Gonnella, Kay Kohlmeyer ; with contributors, Sophie Bostock [and 15 others]].
- Publication
- Doha, Qatar : Museum of Islamic Art : Qatar Museums ; Cinisello Balsamo, Milano : SilvanaEditoriale, [2018]
- ©2018
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | N7289.6 .S96 2018q Oversize | Off-site |
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- Description
- 239 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 30 cm
- Summary
- For more than seven years, Syria has been undergoing one of the worst human tragedies. This once proud and splendid country, with its fabled cities of Damascus and Aleppo, has been largely destroyed and great parts of its population have been forced to leave. It is for this reason that the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha has chosen to draw attention to Syria's extraordinary cultural heritage, illuminating its key role in artistic and intellectual world history while seeking to safeguard the irreplaceable legacy that is in such danger. Syria Matters explores five periods of Syria's history, featuring examinations of key locations and presenting more than 120 objects, including some of the museum's greatest collection highlights, such as the famous Cavour vase, as well as significant national and international loans. Syria Matters offers a deep understanding of the cultural contribution of Syrian art and a recognition of how the ongoing destruction affects everyone.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- exhibition catalogs.
- Exhibition catalogs.
- History.
- Catalogues d'exposition.
- Note
- Catalog of an exhibition held at the Museum of Islamic Art, Dawḥah, Qatar, November 22, 2018- April 30, 2019.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Foreword / HE Sheikha Al Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani -- Preface / Hamad bin Abdulaziz al-Kawari -- Introduction / Julia Gonnella -- Acknowledgements -- Syria : The pre-Islamic periods -- Syria : cradle of civilization / Kay Kohlmeyer -- The beginning of human presence in Syria / Sultan Muhesen -- The supraregional sanctuary of the Weather God of Aleppo (3rd - early 1st Millennium BCE) / Kay Kohlmeyer -- The second millennium Levantine Coast and Ugarit / Kay Kohlmeyer -- Tell Halaf : cultural heritage between despair and daring rescue / Nadja Cholidis -- Phoenicia and the Greeks / Astrid Nunn -- Palmyra -- Palmyra : city in the 'desert' / Kay Kohlmeyer -- Palmyra in the 18th Century : Louis-François Cassas / Sophie Bostock -- Palmyra in the 19th Century : Louis Vignes / Giles M. Hudson -- Syria under the Banu Umayya -- Language of power, architecture of faith : Syria under the Banu Umayya / Rania Abdellatif -- Manuscripts of the Holy Qur'an in the Umayyad Period / Claus-Peter Haase -- Syria under the Banu Ayyub and Mamalik -- Citadels of erudition, paths of glory : Syria under the Banu Ayyub and Mamalik / Rania Abdellatif -- Scholarship in Syria under the Banu Ayyub and Mamalik / Konrad Hirschler -- The Cavour vase from the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha / Rachel Ward -- Syria under the Banu Uthman -- Syria under the Ottomans / Julia Gonnella -- 'A merchant of the Levant Company, Aleppo beyond' by Andrea Soldi / Kholood Marzook Al Fahad -- A slumbering treasure : a splendid 'Ajami room from Damascus / Anke Scharrahs -- Essays -- Syria under the French Mandate, 1918-1946 / Pierre Fournié -- Marwan / Venetia Porter -- Aleppo : a musical legacy / Muhammad Qadri Dalal.
- ISBN
- 9788836641222
- 8836641229
- 9789927108426
- 9927108427
- OCLC
- on1063757392
- 1063757392
- SCSB-9286544
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library