The transformation of Islamic art during the Sunni revival /Yasser Tabbaa.
Material type: TextSeries: Publication details: Seattle : University of Washington Press, (c)2001.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 210 pages) : illustrationsContent type:- text
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- 9780295803937
- NA3573 .T736 2001
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Includes bibliographies and index.
1. The Sunni Revival -- 2. The Transformation of Qur'anic Writing -- 3. The Public Text -- 4. The Girih Mode: Vegetal and Geometric Arabesque -- 5. Muqarnas Vaulting and Ash'ari Occasionalism -- 6. Stone Muqarnas and Other Special Devices -- 7. The Mediation of Symbolic Forms.
"The transformation of Islamic architecture and ornament during the eleventh and twelfth centuries signaled profound cultural changes in the Islamic world. Yasser Tabbaa explores with exemplary lucidity the geometric techniques that facilitated this transformation, and investigates the cultural processes by which meaning was produced within the new forms. Iran, Iraq, and Syria saw the development of proportional calligraphy, vegetal and geometric arabesque, muqarnas (stalactite) vaulting, and other devices that became defining features of medieval Islamic architecture.
Ultimately, the forms and themes described in this book shaped the development of Mamluk architecture in Egypt and Syria, and by extension, the entire course of North African and Andalusian architecture as well."--Jacket.
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