Beiträge zur Islamischen Kunst und Archäologie

Glass in the Islamic World

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Glass unites opposites: malleable and solid, transparent and opaque, resilient and fragile. While vessel glass in the Islamic world has been well studied, flat glass – such as windows, mirrors, and mosaics – remained largely overlooked for a long time. …

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The Arts and Archaeology of Funerary Cultures in Islam

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The 10th volume of the Beiträge zur Islamischen Kunst und Archäologie offers an overview of the extent and complexity of funerary culture in Islamic contexts as attested by visual and material evidence, and the variety of methodological approaches and disciplinary …

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Jahrbuch der Ernst Herzfeld-Gesellschaft e.V. Vol. 9. Spaces and Frontiers of Islamic Art and Archaeology

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The concepts of frontier, boundary, and border, and consequently of spaces and regions they delimit, have left a persistent mark on the perception of geography, whether expounded in
premodern Muslim textual sources, or by modern geostrategists. The ten essays in this …

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Jahrbuch der Ernst Herzfeld-Gesellschaft e.V. Vol. 8

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Volume 8 of the Beiträge zur Islamischen Kunst und Archäologie, edited by Markus Ritter and Nourane Ben Azzouna, with Sabiha Göloğlu, presents fresh research from the Ernst Herzfeld colloquia in Vienna and Strasbourg. The first part deals with architecture and …

Impermanent Monuments, Lasting Legacies: The Dār al-Khilāfa of Samarra and Palace Building in Early Abbasid Iraq

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This book offers a new interpretation of early Abbasid palaces as “impermanent monuments.” Synthesizing an array of sources, ranging from archaeological finds and classical Arabic literature to modern studies on the social and intellectual history of Islamic civilization, it reveals …

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Jahrbuch der Ernst Herzfeld-Gesellschaft e.V. Vol. 7

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Volume 7 of "Beiträge zur Islamische Kunst und Archäologie" (BIKA) brings together contributions from the 10th and 12th Colloquium of the Ernst Herzfeld Society. It focuses on reports on current research projects in the fields of Islamic art history and …

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Jahrbuch der Ernst Herzfeld-Gesellschaft e.V. Vol. 6, Encompassing the Sacred in Islamic Art

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To what extent has Islam as a religion shaped the art and material culture of the Middle East and North Africa? How is Islamic religion, in turn, informed by art and material culture? Under the title "Encompassing the Sacred", papers …

Central Periphery? Art, Culture and History of the Medieval Jazira (Northern Mesopotamia, 8th-15th centuries)

Papers on the Conference held at the University of Bamberg, 31 October–2 November, 2012

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The medieval Jazira has still to offer a multitude of topics for research. As a crossroads in which artistic currents from different regions met, it is unique in the history of the Near East, and at the same time, as …

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Jahrbuch der Ernst Herzfeld-Gesellschaft e.V. Band 5

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Geographically spanning from Spain to Central Asia, the themes included in the fifth volume of Beiträge zur Islamischen Kunst und Archäologie encompass architecture, archaeology, and urban history, painting and the arts of the book, restoration, and historiography. While two contributions …

Orientalische Bibelhandschriften aus der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – PK / Oriental Bible Manuscripts from the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – PK

Eine illustrierte Geschichte / An Illustrated History

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The collection of Oriental manuscripts at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz forms with its 42,000 volumes one of the most significant collections of its kind in the world. A special place therein take the many Bible manuscripts. This …

Grenzgänge im östlichen Mittelmeerraum

Byzanz und die islamische Welt vom 9. bis 13. Jahrhundert

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The volume presents articles from different academic fields. The geographical focus lies on the Eastern Mediterranean, its chronological framework comprises mainly the 9th to 13th century. The collected articles share a common approach inviting the reader to think across the …

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Jahrbuch der Ernst-Herzfeld-Gesellschaft e.V. Band 1: Bericht über die Tagungen in Bamberg vom 1. bis 2. Juli 2005 und in Bonn vom 7. bis 8. Juli 2006

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Volume 1 of the „Contributions to Islamic Art History and Archaeology“ presents a part of the papers from the first two colloquies of the Ernst Herzfeld-Society, 2005 and 2006. They include research based on fieldwork and work relating to art …

Die Grenzen der Welt

Arabica et Iranica ad honorem Heinz Gaube

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Applying different methods on a broad range of sources, the present book attempts to transcend the limits between disciplines of Oriental Studies in twenty articles dedicated to the scholar Heinz Gaube. Focusing on cultural connections between the Arab and the …

The Phenomenon of “Foreign” in Oriental Art

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In the context of this book, the term ‘foreign’ can be interpreted in such a way as to consider anything outside one’s perceived norm as unfamiliar and therefore strange or even odd. This attitude, however, can change as a result …