Intersections

Art and Islamic Cosmopolitanism

Buch | Hardcover

248 Seiten

2021
University Press of Florida (Verlag)
9781683401971 (ISBN)

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This richly illustrated volume highlights the history of Islamic cosmopolitanism as documented through works of art from the eighth century to the present; from the Mediterranean, North Africa, South Asia, and the United States; and including painting, architecture, textiles, calligraphy, photography, and animation. These essays examine Muslim artists, patrons, and collectors' engagement with global influences, as well as artistic exchange between Muslim and non-Muslim societies.

Drawing on Kwame Anthony Appiah's view of cosmopolitanism as respect for the differences among people and acknowledgment of a shared community across those differences, leading scholars offer case studies of art objects that illustrate such dynamics in the Islamic cultural sphere. In doing so, they bring Islamic art history into dialogue with Western European medieval art, Byzantine art, African art, global modern art, and American art and architecture. This timely volume demonstrates the importance of cultivating coexistence, becoming citizens of the world, and recognizing the possibilities of cultural intersections. It offers historical examples of such intersections, for which works of art provide a visual testament.

Melia Belli Bose, associate professor of South Asian art history at the University of Victoria, is the author of Royal Umbrellas of Stone: Memory, Politics, and Public Identity in Rajput Funerary Art and editor of Women, Gender and Art in Asia, c. 1500–1900.

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Islamicate Art and Inter-faith Intersections
Melia Belli Bose
1. An Inscribed Jug from Raqqa: Scripture and the Expression of Identity
Marcus Milwright
2. Intersecting Sicily
William Tronzo
3. A Crossroads of Travel: Cairo's Historic Qarafa Cemetery
Aliaa El Sandouby
4. Setting the Elite Table across the Byzantine-Seljug Divide
Alicia Walker
5. Ink, Blood, and Body: Transmission and Ritual Purity in the Early Modern Western Mediterranean
Manuela Ceballos
6. The Story of Plato Making Music and a Multifaceted Mughal Organ
Mika Natif
7. Woven Together: Textiles and Trans-Saharan Exchange
Michelle Huntington Craig
8. Cosmopolitan Interiors: Syrian 'ajami Rooms and an American Reinterpretation at Frederic Church's Olana
Elizabeth McCauley-Lewis
9. Articulations of the Illustrated Manuscript: Shahzia Sikander's Disruption As Rapture
Vivek Gupta
Chapter 10: Bridging Identity: Language, World Making, and Iranian-American Publics in the Work of Siah Armajani
Elizabeth Rauh
List of Contributors
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	01.09.2021
Reihe/Serie	David a. Cofrin Asian Art Manuscript Series
Zusatzinfo	125 colour illustrations, 30 black & white illustrations
Verlagsort	Florida
Sprache	englisch
Maße	263 x 306 mm
Gewicht	1876 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-13	9781683401971 / 9781683401971
Zustand	Neuware