Early Islamic Art and Architecture

Jonathan M. Bloom

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2017
• eBook ISBN: 9781351942584
• Topic: Art
• Subtopic: World History

This volume deals with the formative period of Islamic art (to c. 950), and the different approaches to studying it. Individual essays deal with architecture, ceramics, coins, textiles, and manuscripts, as well as with such broad questions as the supposed prohibition of images, and the relationships between sacred and secular art. An introductory essay sets each work in context; it is complemented by a bibliography for further reading.

Index

Note: Page references in italics indicate illustrations. The index follows the transliteration system of each chapter, using cross-references from one spelling to another where necessary.

Aachen, palace compound, 327, 328

Abbād b. Ziyād, 297

al-Abbās b. al-Walīd I, 357–8 n.9, 358 n.10

Abbāsid period

and architecture, 40, 335

and audience ceremonial, xx, 120

and corvée labour, 33

and headgear, 297

and Jerusalem, 223 n.l, 256 n.147

and lusterwares, 87–8

and pier mosques, 41

and Quṣayr ‘Amrā, 37, 120

and Sāmarrā, 40

and Umayyads, 240, 345

Abbott, Nabia, xxvi

‘Abd Allāh b. Abbās, 107

‘Abd Allāh b. Sa‘d b. Abū Sarḥ, 129

‘Abd Allāh b. ‘Umar, 145

‘Abd al-Azīz b. Marwān, 129, 378

tomb, 27–9

‘Abd al-Malik b. Marwān, caliph, xxi, 126 n.95, 140 n.173, 376

and ‘alam, 152, 162

and al-Aqṣā mosque, 10

and audience ceremonial, 340

and Christianity, 252–4

and coinage, xxi, 102, 150, 152–5, 163, 165, 299, 383–4

and Dome of the Rock, 8, 10, 11, 34, 59, 66, 225–6, 228, 232, 238–41, 246–7, 249, 251, 345, 384

and khutba, 123 n.75, 124, 125 nn.81, 84, 379

and Mecca, 244, 252–3 n.127

as poet, 365 n.147

portrait, 163, 165

and Umayyad palaces, 357–8 n.9

and wine drinking, 347

‘Abd al-Raḥm...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgments
• General Editor’s Preface
• Introduction
• Notes on Arabic Archeology
• The Genesis of Islamic Art and the Problem of Mshattā
• Abbasid Lustrewares
• The Lawfulness of Painting in Early Islam
• The Mosque and the Palace
• Miḥrāb and ‘Anazah: A Study in Early Islamic Iconography
• The Greek Sources of Islamic Scientific Illustrations
• Deacon or Drink: Some Paintings from Samarra Re-examined
• The Umayyad Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem
• Zandanījī Identified?
• The Throne and Banquet Hall of Khirbat Al-Mafjar
• La Dolce Vita in Early Islamic Syria: The Evidence of Later Umayyad Palaces
• The Origins of the Mihrab Mujawwaf: A Reinterpretation
• Al-Ma’mun’s Blue Koran?
• Index