Islamic Art and Visual Culture

D. Fairchild Ruggles is Professor of Landscape, Art, and Architectural History at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her first book, Gardens, Landscape, and Vision in the Palaces of Islamic Spain (2000), won the Eleanor Tufts Award from the American Society for Hispanic Art Historical Studies. Her most recent book is Islamic Gardens and Landscapes (2008), which won the J.B. Jackson Prize from the Foundation for Landscape Studies. Her edited and co-edited books include Women, Patronage and Self-Representation in Islamic Societies (2000), Cultural Heritage and Human Rights (2007), Sites Unseen: Landscape and Vision (2007), and Intangible Heritage Embodied (2009).

"Recommended. Lower-and upper-level undergraduates; general readers." (Choice, 1 October 2011)

• Introduction 11 Foundations: Religious, Political, Juridical, and Administrative Documents from Early Islam and Places in Transition 62 Behavior, Gifts, Treasuries, and Collections 113 Art 23Workshops, Guilds, and Crafts in General 23Calligraphy and Scribes 31Painting 50Textiles 57Ceramics, Glass, Ivory, and Other Media 66Geometry, Aesthetics 744 Space: Architecture and Urbanism 78Architectural Technique 79Architectural Types and Elements 84Urbanism and Land 915 Places 96Pre-Islamic 96Syria, Jordan, and Environs 99Iraq 105Al-Andalus 112The Maghreb, Africa, and Sicily 119Egypt 125Turkey and the Ottoman Empire 135Iran and Central Asia 149South Asia 162East Asia 175Acknowledgments 177Index 183