Muqarnas 36

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-41945-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 36, 250 Seiten, Format (B × H): 218 mm x 277 mm, Gewicht: 1111 g

Reihe: Muqarnas

Muqarnas 36 features a stunning variety of Islamic art genres, ranging from monumental architecture, manuscripts, textiles, and tiles, to inscriptions, material objects, and forgery. It sweeps across India, Iran, and Turkey, and concludes in Britain, with the discovery of an Ashmolean Museum objet d’art that is not exactly what it is advertised to be.
The volume begins with an overview by Finbarr Barry Flood of the architecture, calligraphy, epigraphy, painting, and portable arts of pre-Mughal Islamicate South Asia. Pre-Mughal court culture has always played second fiddle to the overwhelming hegemony and brilliance of the Mughal dynasty but in its regional heterogeneity it is more than worthy of study. This is followed by two essays examining manuscript illumination: Cailah Jackson, 2017 winner of the Margaret B. Ševcenko Prize in Islamic Art and Culture, discusses two manuscripts illuminated by Mukhlis ibn 'Abdallah al-Hindi in thirteenth-century Konya; and Denise-Marie Teece treats the early sixteenth-century Safina manuscript (Biblioteca Reale Ms. Or. 101), its illuminator Ruzbehan al-Modhahheb, and its unique six-page preface. A Byzantine stole with embroidered Arabic inscriptions in the collection of Vatopediou Monastery on Mount Athos is the subject of the fourth essay by Nikolaos Vryzidis. The volume’s seven essays conclude with three investigations into Ottoman art history: the blue-and-white tiles of the Baba Naqqas style of the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, as prominently displayed in the Muradiye Mosque in Edirne (Patricia Blessing), the architectural book Risa¯le-i Mi'ma¯riyye of the seventeenth-century Ca'fer Efendi and in particular his notes on surveying and the architect’s cubit (Gül Kale), and the evolution of the late sixteenth-century Ottoman custom of requiring the sultan to be victorious over the non-Muslim enemy and to only use spoils from the holy war in the construction of a sultanic mosque (Samet Budak).
The Notes and Sources section continues with Bill Hickman’s analysis of the tantalizing calligraphed tiles of the now destroyed mosque built for the Sufi shaykh and poet Esrefoglu Rumi (d. 1469?), and two communications about artifacts on British soil: a wooden box, believed to have contained the heart of Abbot Roger de Norton (d. 1291), with an Arabic inscription that is now deciphered by Barry Knight, 147 years after its discovery; and a gorgeous Persian luster bowl in Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum, which when subjected to UV examination, revealed that it was a product of extensive repair, or “restoration,” over the centuries. A systematic examination of the bowl and its remarkable history by Francesca Leoni and her colleagues uncovers a level of fakery of antiques that, it is suggested, might be prevalent in museum ceramic collections.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Necipo&

Necipoglu, Gülru

Metzler, Maria J

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunststile Islamische Kunst
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Literatur & Kunst
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

CONTENTS

Finbarr Barry Flood, Before the Mughals: Material Culture of Sultanate North India

Cailah Jackson, The Illuminations of Mukhlis ibn 'Abdullah al-Hindi: Identifying Manuscripts from Late Medieval Konya

Denise-Marie Teece, “Compassionate Companion, Familiar Friend”: The Turin Safina (Biblioteca Reale Ms. Or. 101) and Its Significance

Nikolaos Vryzidis, The “Arabic Stole” of Vatopediou Monastery: Traces of Islamic Material Culture in Late Byzantium

Patricia Blessing, The Blue-and-White Tiles of the Muradiye in Edirne: Architectural Decoration between Tabriz, Damascus, and Cairo

Gül Kale, Intersections between the Architect’s Cubit, the Science of Surveying, and Social Practices in Ca'fer Efendi’s Seventeenth-Century Book on Ottoman Architecture

Samet Budak, “The Temple of the Incredulous”: Ottoman Sultanic Mosques and the Principle of Legality

NOTES AND SOURCES

Bill Hickman, A Forgotten Fifteenth-Century Ottoman Mosque and Its Inscriptions

Barry Knight, The Heart Case of Abbot Roger de Norton from St. Albans Abbey: An Islamic Object in a Medieval English Context

Francesca Leoni, Dana Norris, Kelly Domoney, Moujan Matin, and Andrew Shortland, “The Illusion of an Authentic Experience”: A Luster Bowl in the Ashmolean Museum

Über Autor(innen)

Gülru Necipoglu, (Ph.D., Harvard University, 1986) is the Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture at Harvard University. She has been the editor of Muqarnas since 1993.