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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.
List of contents
- 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
About the author
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.
