The Dome of the Rock and its Umayyad mosaic inscriptions /
The Dome of the Rock is a shrine located on the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem. When was it built? What meanings was it meant to convey to viewers at the time of its construction? These are questions that have preoccupied historians of Islamic art and architecture, and numerous interpreta...
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| フォーマット: | Licensed eBooks |
| 言語: | 英語 |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press
[2016]
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| シリーズ: | Edinburgh studies in Islamic art.
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| オンライン･アクセス: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctvggx3rh |
目次:
- The setting of the Dome of the Rock
- Initial description of the mosaic inscriptions
- Mosaic scripts in late antiquity
- Visual sources for the mosaic script of the Dome of the Rock
- Focus on details
- Proposing a sequence
- Symbolic dimensions of inscriptions in late antiquity and early Islam
- The inscriptions of the Dome of the Rock in their historical context.