Islamic crosspollinations - AKASOY, A., J.E. MONTOGOMERY, and P.E. PORMANN, (eds.),
interactions in the medieval Middle East
KORTE INHOUD
?It is rare that one reads a collection of essays resulting from a colloquium or workshop with a sense of real excitement. This collection is one of those rare occasions. (? ) Several pieces brought particular enlightenment and pleasure. For instance there is Elizabeth Fowden?s examination of the early Muslim engagement with Christian churches and holy places, an engagement of sharing and respect in which monasteries by the early Abbasid period had come ?to represent in the Muslim literary imagination places of sensual beauty and ease where food, wine, sacred books and sexual titillation converged?. She demonstrates in a range of ways how Christian monastic culture nourished Arab muslim culture. This cross-pollination is one notion which Manu, both Christian and Muslim, might deny should they ever get to hear of it. In a most entertaining piece of detective work Garth Bowden decodes a distinctive Greek presence in the bathhouse of al-Walid?s hunting lodge. He identifies a painting in a key transitional point ...
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n.p., 2007. XII,204p. Original balck cloth with pictorial dust wrps. Spine gilt titled. Like new, [Antiquarian] [Auteur: AKASOY, A., J.E. MONTOGOMERY, and P.E. PORMANN, (eds.),] [Uitgever: Gibb Memorial Trust] [Jaar: 2007] [Titel: Islamic Crosspollinations. Interactions in the Medieval Middle East.]
