Author: Oleg Grabar
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Pre
Keywords: rock, dome
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2006-10-30
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0674023137
ISBN-13: 9780674023130

The Dome of the Rock, the beautiful Muslim shrine in the walled Old City of Jerusalem, was fully restored to its original state in the last half-century. Thus, this structure, sited on the third holiest spot on earth for Muslims, is at once a product of the seventh century and almost entirely the work of our own times--a paradox in keeping with the complexities and contradictions of history and religion, architecture and ideology that define this site. This book tells the story of the Dome of the Rock, from the first fateful decades of its creation--on the esplanade built in the fourth decad

Author: Oleg Grabar
Publisher: Princeton University Pre
Keywords: jerusalem, islamic, holy, shape
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 1996-11-11
List price: $110.00
ISBN-10: 0691036535
ISBN-13: 9780691036533

From the time of Herod through the Crusades, Jerusalem had officially "changed its religion" several times, with Jews, Christians, and Muslims inscribing the story of their faiths on the urban landscape. In this handsomely illustrated book, noted Islamist Oleg Grabar offers a rare account of the great role played by early Islam in defining the "look" of Jerusalem that remained largely intact until the twentieth century. From about 640 to 1100, Muslims transformed Christian Jerusalem, mainly the area now known as the Haram al-Sharif, both physically and ideologically to embody their new faith.

Author: Oleg Grabar
Publisher: Prestel USA
Keywords: century, page, decorated, art, islamic, masterpieces
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2009-09-09
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 3791343793
ISBN-13: 9783791343792

This opulent volume of worksfrom illustrated and illuminatedmanuscripts culled from important public and private collections offers a thorough introduction to the wonders of Islamic art.A renowned scholar of Islamic art, history and culture, Oleg Grabar introduces in this book a wide range of illuminated manuscript masterpieces from the eighth to the seventeenth century. The heroes of grand epics such as Alexander the Great are found side-by-side with mythical monarchs, sultans, and even monsters. Illuminated manuscripts of the Koran, epic poetry, and scientific works from the Egyptian, Syrian

Author: Oleg Grabar
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Keywords: architecture, art, islamic, annual, muqarnas
Number of Pages: 138
Published: 1991-09
List price: $86.00
ISBN-10: 9004093729
ISBN-13: 9789004093720

Oleg Grabar, "K.A.C Creswell and His Work." Julian Raby, "Reviewing the Reviewers." J.W. Allan, New Additions to the New Edition." Robert Hillenbrand, Creswell and Contemporary Central European Scholarship." Eric Fernie, "The History of Medieval Architecture from Carolingian to Romanesque: Criteria and Definitions from 1925 to the Present Day." Cyril Mango, "Approaches to Byzantine Architecture." J.M. Rogers, "Architectural History as Literature: Creswell’s Reading and Methods." Jonathan M. Bloom, "Creswell and the Origins of the Minaret." John Warren, "Creswell’s

Author: Oleg Grabar
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: miniatures, mostly
Number of Pages: 184
Published: 2000-11-15
List price: $87.00
ISBN-10: 0691049416
ISBN-13: 9780691049410

The mention of Persian painting conjures up images of beautifully illuminated manuscripts filled with tiny, intricate pictures, each a miniature festival of color. Anyone who has seen Persian miniatures up close will attest to their captivating power. In this book, the renowned historian of Islamic art Oleg Grabar introduces Western audiences to Persian painting, which consists primarily of miniatures illustrating works of literature, but also includes murals and small ceramics decorated with pictures. The masterpieces of this painting have a visual richness that requires the use of the intell

Author: Oleg Grabar
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Keywords: architecture, vol, art, islamic, annual, muqarnas
Number of Pages: 197
Published: 1988-03
List price: $86.00
ISBN-10: 9004081550
ISBN-13: 9789004081550

Oleg Grabar, On Catalogues, Exhibitions, and Complete Works ; Jonathan M. Bloom, The Mosque of the Qarafa in Cairo ; Leonor Fernandes, The Foundation of Baybars al-Jashankir: Its Waqf, History, and Architecture ; Howard Crane, Some Archaeological Notes on Turkish Sardis ; Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt, Siyah Qalem and Gong Kai: An Istanbul Album Painter and a Chinese Painter of the Mongolian Period ; Dogan Kuban, The Style of Sinan’s Domed Structures ; Yasser Tabbaa, Bronze Shapes in Iranian Ceramics of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries ; Mehrdad Shokoohy and Nat

Author: Oleg Grabar
Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
Keywords: islamic, annual, art, architecture, world, culture, visual, muqarnas
Number of Pages: 179
Published: 1997-08
List price: $67.50
ISBN-10: 9004090509
ISBN-13: 9789004090507

Oleg Grabar, An Exhibition of High Ottoman Art Nasser Rabbat, The Meaning of the Umayyad Dome of the Rock ; Jamel Akbar, Khatta and the Territorial structure of Early Muslim Towns ; Saleh Lamei Mostafa, The Cairene Sabil: Its Form and Meaning ; Sergei Chmelnizkij, Methods of Constructing Geometric Ornamental Systems in the Cupola of the Alhambra I.I. Notkin, Genotypes of Spatial Form in the Architecture of the East ; Perween Hasan, Sultanate Mosques and Continuity in Bengal Architecture ; Eva Baer, Jeweled Ceramics from Medieval Islam: A Note on the Ambiguity of Islamic