TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tabbaa,Yasser
TI  - The transformation of Islamic art during the Sunni revival /Yasser Tabbaa
T2  - Publications on the Near East
SN  - 9780295803937
AV  - NA3573 .T736 2001
PY  - 2001///
CY  - Seattle
PB  - University of Washington Press
KW  - Decoration and ornament, Architectural
KW  - Middle East
KW  - Islamic architecture
KW  - Architecture, Medieval
KW  - Islamic decoration and ornament
KW  - Decoration and ornament, Medieval
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - "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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