Envisioning Islamic Art and Architecture : Essays in Honor of Renata Holod.

Intro -- Envisioning Islamic Art and Architecture: Essays in Honor of Renata Holod -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Note on Transliteration -- List of Figures -- 1: Inventing the Alhambra -- 2: Power, Light, Intra-Confessional Discontent, and the Almoravids -- 3: Medieval Textiles in Iberia: Studies for a New Approach -- 4: Telling Tales: Investigating a Mīnāʾī Bowl -- 5: Seeing the Light: Enacting the Divine at Three Medieval Syrian Shrines -- 6: Patterns of Faith: Mosque Typologies and Sectarian Affiliation in the Kingdom of Ahmadnagar -- 7: Saints, Samāʿ, and the Politics of Charisma in Late-Nineteenth-Century Hyderabad, India -- 8: Between the Brush and the Pen: On the Intertwined Histories of Mughal Painting and Calligraphy -- 9: "Many a Wish Has Turned to Dust": Pir Budaq and the Formation of Turkmen Arts of the Book -- 10: The Rose of the Prophet: Floral Metaphors in Late Ottoman Devotional Art -- 11: Picturing the "Abode of Felicity" in 1919: A Photograph Album of Istanbul -- Bibliography -- Index.

Envisioning Islamic Art and Architecture: Essays in Honor of Renata Holod offers innovative analyses and interpretations of both familiar and previously unpublished objects and monuments, its essays adopting the broad range of methodological approaches stimulated by Holod's research and pedagogy.

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