Gazing at Mecca and Medina
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-73190-5 (ISBN)
This volume presents a comprehensive collection of studies centered on the depictions of Mecca and Medina across diverse media, historical periods, and geographical contexts. By covering such an extensive temporal and spatial range, it provides readers with fresh and engaging interpretations and brings forward of overlooked and understudied materials, such as Acehnese manuscripts or Bosnian wall paintings.
Contributors: Deniz Beyazit; Guy Burak; Sergio Carro Martín; Mounia Chekhab-Abudaya; Haris Dervišević; Nicoletta Fazio; Barry Flood; Sabiha Göloğlu; Nurul Iman Rusli; Marika Sardar; Avinoam Shalem.
Mounia Chekhab-Abudaya is Deputy Director of Curatorial Affairs at the Museum of Islamic Art, Doha, Qatar. She completed her Ph.D. in Islamic Art History and Archaeology at the Pantheon Sorbonne University in Paris and is specialized in the Western Mediterranean, manuscripts and pilgrimage-related devotional materials in the Islamic world.
Contents
Foreword
Finbarr Barry Flood
Acknowledgements
Note on Transliteration
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Mounia Chekhab-Abudaya
1 “The Neighbours of [God’s] Messenger Deserve to Be Honoured and Endorsed”
A Letter Roll from the Medinan Notables to Sultan Süleymān (TSMA E. 7750)
Sabiha Göloğlu and Guy Burak
2 Ziyāra to Medina: Study of a Certificate Depicting the Prophet’s Mosque
Mounia Chekhab-Abudaya and Sergio Carro Martín
3 Representations of Pilgrims at the Holy Sites of Mecca and Medina in Futūḥ al-Ḥaramayn Manuscripts
Marika Sardar
4 Mecca in Acehnese Poetry and Drawing
Nurul Iman Rusli
5 Sarajevo Paintings of Mecca and Medina
Haris Dervišević
6 Shiʿi and Sufi Paths of Pilgrimage and Salvation
Study of a Scroll in the Aga Khan Museum
Deniz Beyazıt
7 Laylī and the Kaʿba, or Finding Love at the Heart of Islam
Representing al-Bayt in Persian Painting
Nicoletta Fazio
8 Ut ekphrasis pictura: When Words Take Shape in Sir John Chardin’s Drawings of Muhammad’s Tomb in Mecca
Avinoam Shalem
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 26.07.2025 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Arts and Archaeology of the Islamic World ; 23 |
| Zusatzinfo | 97 Illustrations, color |
| Verlagsort | Leiden |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 193 x 260 mm |
| Gewicht | 1052 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 90-04-73190-3 / 9004731903 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-90-04-73190-5 / 9789004731905 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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