Envisioning Islamic Art and Architecture: Essays in Honor of Renata Holod (Arts and Archaeology of the Islamic World)

Envisioning Islamic Art and Architecture: Essays in Honor of Renata Holod is a collection of studies on the portable arts, arts of the book, painting, photography, and architecture spanning the medieval and modern periods and across the historical Islamic lands. The essays reflect the wide-ranging interests and diverse methodologies of Renata Holod and attend to the physical, material, and aesthetic properties of their objects, offer nuanced explanations of complex relations between objects and historical contexts, and remain critically aware of the shape of the field of Islamic art and architecture, its canonical objects, approaches, and historiographies. Essential reading for scholars working on Islam and the Islamic world in the disciplines of history of art and architecture, history, literature, and anthropology. With contributions by María Judith Feliciano, Christiane Gruber, Leslee Katrina Michelsen, Nancy Micklewright, Stephennie Mulder, Johanna Olafsdotter, Yael Rice, Cynthia Robinson, David J. Roxburgh, D. Fairchild Ruggles, Alison Mackenzie Shah, and Pushkar Sohoni. Envisioning Islamic Art and Architecture: Essays in Honor of Renata Holod 6 Copyright 7 Contents 8 Preface 10 Note on Transliteration 21 List of Figures 22 1: Inventing the Alhambra 32 2: Power, Light, Intra-Confessional Discontent, and the Almoravids 53 3: Medieval Textiles in Iberia: Studies for a New Approach 77 4: Telling Tales: Investigating a Mīnāʾī Bowl 97 5: Seeing the Light: Enacting the Divine at Three Medieval Syrian Shrines 119 6: Patterns of Faith: Mosque Typologies and Sectarian Affiliation in the Kingdom of Ahmadnagar 140 7: Saints, Samāʿ, and the Politics of Charisma in Late-Nineteenth-Century Hyderabad, India 158 8: Between the Brush and the Pen: On the Intertwined Histories of Mughal Painting and Calligraphy 179 9: “Many a Wish Has Turned to Dust”: Pir Budaq and the Formation of Turkmen Arts of the Book 206 10: The Rose of the Prophet: Floral Metaphors in Late Ottoman Devotional Art 254 11: Picturing the “Abode of Felicity” in 1919: A Photograph Album of Istanbul 281 Bibliography 310 Index 328 Envisioning Islamic art and architecture: essays in honor of Renata Holod' is a collection of studies on the portable arts, arts of the book, painting, photography, and architecture spanning the medieval and modern periods and across the historical Islamic lands. The essays reflect the wide-ranging interests and diverse methodologies of Holod and attend to the physical, material, and aesthetic properties of their objects, offer nuanced explanations of complex relations between objects and historical contexts, and remain critically aware of the shape of the field of Islamic art and architecture, its canonical objects, approaches, and historiographies.00Essential reading for scholars working on Islam and the Islamic world in the disciplines of history of art and architecture, history, literature, and anthropology 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.