Arab painting is treated here as a significant artistic corpus in its own right. Rejecting the traditional emphasis on individual paintings, the distinguished contributors to this volume stress the integration of text and image as a more productive theoretical framework.
Author(s): Contadini, A. (Editor)
Publisher: BRILL
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 292
Contents
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Foreword (Craig Clunas)......Page 8
Introduction (and Acknowledgements) (Anna Contadini)......Page 10
Section I Theoretical Issues......Page 14
The Manuscript as a Whole (Anna Contadini)......Page 16
What does 'Arab Painting' Mean? (Oleg Grabar)......Page 30
Section 2 Scientific Manuscripts......Page 36
Art in the Name of Science: The Kitäb al-Diryäq in Text and Image (Jaclynne J. Kerner)......Page 38
Text and Illustrations. Dioscorides and the Illustrated Herbal in the Arab Tradition (Michael J. Rogers)......Page 54
Elusive Giraffes: Ibn Abi l-hawäfir's Badäi al-Akwän and Other Animal Books (Remke Kruk)......Page 62
Mapping the Mnemonic: A Late Thirteenth-Century Copy of al-sufï's Book of the Constellations (Moya Carey)......Page 78
From Iraq to Fars: Tracking Cultural Transformations in the 1322 Qazwīnī 'Ajā'ib Manuscript (Persis Berlekamp)......Page 86
Section 3 Literary Manuscripts......Page 106
The Earliest Islamic Illustrated Manuscript, the Maqīmīt and a Graveyard at Suhīr, Oman (Geoffrey R. D. King)......Page 108
Love Localized and Science from Afar: 'Arab Painting', Iberian Courtly Culture, and the Hadïth Bayäd wa Riyäd (Vat. Ar. Ris. 368) (Cynthia Robinson)......Page 116
The Schefer Harïrï: A Study in Islamic Frontispiece Design (Robert Hillenbrand)......Page 130
The Uses of Captions in Medieval Literary Arabic Manuscripts (Bernard O'Kane)......Page 148
Section 4 The European Connection......Page 158
Anatomical Illustration in Arabic Manuscripts (Emilie Savage-Smith)......Page 160
The 'Translation' of Diagrams and Illustrations from Arabic into Latin (Charles Burnett)......Page 174
Introductory Bibliography......Page 190
Illustrations
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Index......Page 278
