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The dragon in medieval east Christian and Islamic art.
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ISBN: 9789004186637 9004186638 9786613160805 1283160803 9004209727 9789004209725 Year: 2011 Volume: 86 Publisher: Leiden Brill

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This book is a pioneering work on a key iconographic motif, that of the dragon. It examines the perception of this complex, multifaceted motif within the overall intellectual and visual universe of the medieval Irano-Turkish world. Using a broadly comparative approach, the author explores the ever-shifting semantics of the dragon motif as it emerges in neighbouring Muslim and non-Muslim cultures. The book will be of particular interest to those concerned with the relationship between the pre-Islamic, Islamic and Eastern Christian (especially Armenian) world. The study is fully illustrated, with 209 (b/w and full colour) plates, many of previously unpublished material. Illustrations include photographs of architectural structures visited by the author, as well as a vast collection of artefacts, all of which are described and discussed in detail with inscription readings, historical data and textual sources.


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Islamic art and visual culture : an anthology of sources.
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ISBN: 9781405154024 Year: 2011 Publisher: Oxford Blackwell

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Minaret : symbol of Islam.
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ISBN: 0197280137 9780197280133 Year: 1989 Volume: 7 Publisher: Oxford : Oxford university press,

Cosmology and architecture in premodern Islam : an architectural reading of mystical ideas
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ISBN: 0791483444 1423744055 9781423744054 0791464113 9780791464113 9780791483442 9780791483442 Year: 2005 Publisher: Albany : State University of New York Press,

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This fascinating interdisciplinary study reveals connections between architecture, cosmology, and mysticism. Samer Akkach demonstrates how space ordering in premodern Islamic architecture reflects the transcendental and the sublime. The book features many new translations, a number from unpublished sources, and several illustrations.Referencing a wide range of mystical texts, and with a special focus on the works of the great Sufi master Ibn Arabi, Akkach introduces a notion of spatial sensibility that is shaped by religious conceptions of time and space. Religious beliefs about the cosmos, geography, the human body, and constructed forms are all underpinned by a consistent spatial sensibility anchored in medieval geocentrism. Within this geometrically defined and ordered universe, nothing stands in isolation or ambiguity; everything is interrelated and carefully positioned in an intricate hierarchy. Through detailed mapping of this intricate order, the book shows the significance of this mode of seeing the world for those who lived in the premodern Islamic era and how cosmological ideas became manifest in the buildings and spaces of their everyday lives. This is a highly original work that provides important insights on Islamic aesthetics and culture, on the history of architecture, and on the relationship of art and religion, creativity and spirituality.

Le piège de Salomon : la pensée de l'art dans le Coran.
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ISBN: 2226126821 9782226126825 Year: 2002 Publisher: Paris Albin Michel


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Heraldic symbols : islamic insignia and western heraldry
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ISBN: 0905209923 Year: 1986 Publisher: London : Victoria and Albert Museum,


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L'art figuratif en Islam médiéval et l'énigme de Behzâd de Hérât, 1465-1535
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ISBN: 2080102052 9782080102058 Year: 2004 Publisher: [Paris] : Flammarion,

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Art et symbolisme islamiques --- Islamic art and symbolism --- Kunst en Symboliek [Mohammedaanse ] --- Mohammedaanse kunst en symboliek --- Painting [Islamic ] --- Painting [Muslim ] --- Peinture islamique --- Peinture musulmane --- Schilderkunst [Islamitische ] --- Schilderkunst [Mohammedaanse ] --- Symbolism [Islamic ] --- Islamic art --- Art islamique --- Painting [Medieval ] --- Islamic countries --- Bihzad --- Islamic illumination of books and manuscripts --- Islamic miniature painting --- Islamic painting --- Painting, Medieval --- Figurative painting --- Figural painting --- Representational painting --- Figurative art --- Painting --- Paintings, Medieval --- Muslim painting --- Painting, Islamic --- Paintings, Islamic --- Miniature painting, Islamic --- Muslim miniature painting --- Miniature painting --- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Islamic --- Muslim illumination of books and manuscripts --- Illumination of books and manuscripts --- Islamic symbolism --- Symbolism, Islamic --- Islamic arts --- Symbolism --- Symbolism in art --- Bihzād, --- Bechzād, --- Behzad, --- Behzad, Kamaladdin, --- Beḣzod, --- Bekhzad, Kamaladdin, --- Bekhzad, Kamaliddin, --- Bekhzod, --- Bihzād, Kamāluddīn, --- Kamāl al-Dīn Bihzād, --- Kamaladdin Behzad, --- Kamaladdin Bekhzad, --- Kamaliddin Bekhzad, --- Kamāluddīn Bihzād, --- Kamoliddin Beḣzod, --- Kamoliddin Bekhzod, --- بهزاد --- Kamaleadin Behzad, --- Behzad, Kamaleadin, --- Behzād, Kamāl al-Dīn (1460?-1535?) --- Manuscrits à peintures persans --- Enluminure islamique --- Peinture figurative --- Manuscrits à peintures médiévaux --- Enluminure iranienne --- Afghanistan --- Pays islamiques --- Moyen-Orient --- Herat (Afghanistan) --- Moyen âge --- Jusqu'à 1500

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