ISBN:
978-1-58839-457-6 (Metropolitan Museum of Art : hc)
,
978-1-58839-458-3 (Metropolitan Museum of Art : pbk)
,
978-0-300-17950-7 (Yale University Press : hc)
Language:
English
Pages:
xvii, 332 p. :
,
col. ill., col. map ;
,
31 cm.
Year of publication:
2012
Keywords:
etorient
Description / Table of Contents:
Byzantium -- Byzantium and Islam : age of transition (7th-9th century) / Helen C. Evans -- Gerasa / Lisa R. Brody -- Heraclius / Helen C. Evans -- Classical survival / Helen C. Evans -- Sassanian expansion to the Mediterranean / Alexander Nagel -- Christian communities during the early Islamic centuries / Brandie Ratliff -- Sinai from the second to the ninth century : continuity in the midst of change / Hieronomonk Justin of Sinai -- Icons from the Monastery of Saint Catherine at Mount Sinai / Kathleen Corrigan -- Arab Christians / Sidney H. Griffith -- The Syriac Church / Nancy Khalek -- Coptic Christianity / Elizabeth S. Bolman -- The White Monastery federation and the angelic life / Elizabeth S. Bolman -- The Coptic monastery of Bawit / Dominique Bénazeth -- To travel to the holy / Brandie Ratliff -- The Stylites of Syria / Brandie Ratliff -- Mosaics during the Byzantine and early Islamic periods / Robert Schick -- Jews and Judaism between Byzantium and Islam / Steven Fine -- Christian mosaics in early Islamic Jordan and Palestine : a case of regional iconoclasm / Finbarr B. Flood -- Commerce -- "Ornaments of excellence" from "the miserable gains of commerce" : luxury art and Byzantine culture / Thelma K. Thomas -- Arab-Byzantine coins : money as cultural continuity / Clive Foss -- Weights and measures from Byzantium and Islam / Stefan Heidemann -- Silks / Thelma K. Thomas -- Dress styles from Syria to Libya / Cäcilia Fluck -- Materials and techniques of late antique and early Islamic textiles found in Egypt / Kathrin Colburn --Animal motifs / Mina Moraitou -- Vine rinceaux / Gabriele Mietke -- Inscribe textiles / Cäcilia Fluck --Inscribed objects / Robert Schick -- Jewelry : ideologies and transformation / Stephen R. Zwirn -- Women / Mina Moraitou -- Islam -- Country estates, material culture, and the celebration of princely life : Islamic art and the secular domain / Anna Ballian -- Qasr-al-Mshatta / Anna Ballian -- Al-Fudayn / Anna Ballian --
Description / Table of Contents:
Al-Qastal / Anna Ballian -- An Abbasid residence at al-Humayma / Rebecca M. Foote -- Ornamental motifs in early Islamic art / Mina Moraitou -- Fustar / Iman R. Abdulfatah -- Secular inscriptions / Mina Moraitou -- Faith, religion, and the material culture of early Islam / Finbarr B. Flood -- Religious inscriptions in early Islamic art / Linda Komaroff -- The Qur'an / Finbarr B. Flood.
Note:
Published in conjunction with the exhibition Byzantium and Islam : age of transition (7th-9th century), held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, March 14-July 8, 2012.
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