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The Kitāb Naʿt al-Ḥayawān is the earliest of a group of illustrated manuscripts dealing with the characteristics of animals and their medicinal uses. The present study considers both the confluence of textual traditions within this work and the stylistic and iconographic relationships of its illustrations, which make it a key witness to early thirteenth-century Arab painting. After a re-evaluation of previous approaches, emphasis is placed on relating image to text, on stylistic affiliations, and on the modalities of production, supported by technical analyses...

Arab painting, preserved mainly in manuscript illustrations of the 12th to 14th centuries, is here treated as an artistic corpus fully deserving of appreciation in its own terms, and not as a mere precursor to Persian painting. The book assembles papers by a distinguished list of scholars that illuminate the variety of material that survives in scientific as well as literary manuscripts. Because of the contexts in which the paintings appear, a major theoretical concern is, precisely, the relationship of painting to text. It rejects earlier scholarly habits of analysing paintings in isolation,...

This volume brings together some of the latest research on the cultural, intellectual, and commercial interactions during the Renaissance between Western Europe and the Middle East, with particular reference to the Ottoman Empire. Recent scholarship has brought to the fore the economic, political, cultural, and personal interactions between Western European Christian states and the Eastern Mediterranean Islamic states, and has therefore highlighted the incongruity of conceiving of an iron curtain bisecting the mentalities of the various socio-political and religious communities located in the...

Muqarnas: An Annual on the Visual Cultures of the Islamic World is sponsored by The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. In Muqarnas articles are published on all aspects of Islamic visual culture, historical and contemporary, as well as articles dealing with unpublished textual primary sources.

Ronesans ve Osmanli Dunyasi, Ronesans doneminde Bati Avrupa ile Ortadogu'nun kulturel, entelektuel ve ticari etkilesimlerini konu alan en son arastirmalari bir araya getiriyor. Hiristiyan Bati Avrupa ile Musluman Dogu Akdeniz arasindaki temas ve mubadele unsurlarinin arastirildigi bu kitap, Osmanli Imparatorlugu'nu icinde Ronesans'in evrildigi jeopolitik ve kulturel surekliligin ayrilmaz bir parcasi olarak degerlendiriyor. Bunu yaparken de bugun modern oncesi ve erken modern Akdeniz dunyasinda farkli sanatsal, entelektuel ve siyasi etkilesimleri anlama bicimimizi incelterek Ronesans'in...