2010-2011
Persis Berlekamp,
Wonder, Image, and Cosmos in Medieval Islam. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011.
Franziska Bloch,
Das umayyadische "Wüstenschloss" und die Siedlung am Jabal Says. Bd. II: Keramik und Kleinfunde, Damaszener Forschungen 14 (Darmstadt 2011) The volume is available through the publishing house Philipp von Zabern:
http://www.zabern.de/buch/Das_umayyadische_Wuestenschloss_und_die_Siedlung_am_abal_Says/22419
Sule Pfeiffer-Tas,
Funde und Befunde aus dem Schachtbrunnen im Hamam III in Ayasuluk/ Ephesos Eine schamanistische Bestattung des 15. Jahrunderts Verlag: Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2010. ISBN13: 978-3-7001-6763-1
Rebecca M. Brown and Deborah S. Hutton, eds.
A Companion to Asian Art and Architecture. Wiley-Blackwell, ISBN: 978-1-4051-8537-0, Hardcover 688 pages.
M. Haddad, ed.
Towards a Cultural History of the Mamluk Era. Beiruter Texte und Studien, Bd. 118. Orient-Institut Beirut/Ergon Verlag Würzburg, 2010.With 32 pages of b/w and color images. ISBN: 978-3-89913-734-7
Nina Ergin (ed.),
BATHING CULTURE OF ANATOLIAN CIVILIZATIONS: ARCHITECTURE, HISTORY AND IMAGINATION (Louvain: Peeters, 2001). X-329 p. ISBN 978-90-429-2439-0. 84 Euro.
http://www.peeters-leuven.be/boekoverz.asp?nr=8921
Unseen treasures from the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing 2010.
Focus on 50 – Unseen treasures from the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha. With an introduction by Joachim Gierlichs and contributions by Konstantinos Chatziantoniou, Joachim Gierlichs, Franak Hilloowala, Kathryn Kalemkerian, Saba Ali Khalifa al-Kuwari, Lisa Malcom, Jules McDevitt, Sheikha al Nassr, Susan Rees, Michelle Walton.
Marcus Milwright,
An Introduction to Islamic Archaeology (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2010).
Ronald T. Marchese and Marlene Breu.
Splendor and Pageantry: Textile Treasures from the Armenian Orthodox Churches of Istanbul. Istanbul: Çitlembik Yayınları, 2011. ISBN: 979944424783; 400 pages, lavishly illustrated) is available from major bookstores and online booksellers and is being distributed in the
English-speaking world by National Book Network.
Nurcan Bosdurmaz.
BOSNA HERSEK MEZARTASLARI -
Tombstones of Bosnia-Herzegovina Nadgrobni Spomenici u Bosni i Hercegovini ISBN 978-90-6921-006-3 First edition 2011, Haarlem, Netherlands. 296 pages (including some 151 pictures and a digital Catalogue of 277 Tombstones ina pdf file (547 pages)
Have a look at the cover-pages and for more information visit:
http://www.turkistan.org/bosna.htm
CORPUS OF TURKISH ISLAMIC INSCRIPTIONS nr. 4 TÜRK ISLAM KITABELERI DIZISI no:4 SUMMARY This study aims to study the Ottoman gravestones in Bosnia-Herzegovina dating from the period 15th to 19th century by comparing them with the ones in Istanbul, Edirne, Bursa and Iznik and to find out the extent of the influence of the earlier periods on today’s gravestone building in the region. Bosnia-Herzegovina is one of the “frontier” regions of the Ottoman Empire. The study is in Turkish with an English and Bosnian language Summary. The work consists of 2 parts. One part is the printed Book. Second part is the Catalogue of 277. Tombstones. This catalogue is not printed but made available as a pdf file.
Julia Gonnella and Christoph Rauch, eds.
Heroische Zeiten. Tausend Jahre persisches Buch der Könige. Berlin: Edition Minerva, 2011. ISBN 978-3-938832-70-7
Stéphane Pradines. Gedi,
une cité portuaire swahilie. Islam médiéval en Afrique orientale. IF 1017 FIFAO 60 Archéologie Islamique, Le Caire ISBN 978-2-7247-0543-0 2010, 54 €
http://www.ifao.egnet.net/uploads/publications/sommaires/IF1017.pdf
Ramón Rubio Domene,
Yeserías de la Alhambra: Historia, Técnica y Conservación, Granada: Patronato de la Alhambra y Generalife, 2010.
D. Fairchild Ruggles,
Islamic Art & Visual Culture: An Anthology of Sources, Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
Hilal Kazan, XVI.
Asırda Sarayın Sanatı Himayesi (Istanbul: ISAR Vakfı, 2010). 398 pp. Hardcover. USD 40/65.60 TL ISBN 978-975-7874-26-3; a book about art patronage at the Ottoman court in the sixteenth century. To order (also from outside Turkey), please go to:
http://en.eren.com.tr/goster/kitap/kisi.asp?CAS=237975&SID=341330577343
Iván Szántó,
Safavid Art and Hungary: The Esterházy Appliqué in Context. Documenta et Monographiae VII. Piliscsaba: The Avicenna Institute of Middle Eastern Studies, 2010. Hardcover, 213 p., 125 ills., ISBN: 978-963-87618-6-6
Troelenberg, Eva-Maria.
Eine Ausstellung wird besichtigt. Die Münchner «Ausstellung von Meisterwerken muhammedanischer Kunst» 1910 in kultur- und wissenschaftsgeschichtlicher Perspektive. Peter Lang: Frankfurt am Main, 2011.
Serpi Bagcı-Filiz Çağman-Günsel Renda-Zeren Tanındı,
Ottoman Painting, İstanbul, 2010. ISBN 978-975-17-3499-0. (Republic of Turkey Ministry of Culture and Tourism Publications. First edition was in Turkish published in
İstanbul 2006)
Zeren Tanındı,
The 1400th Anniversary of the Qur'an. Museum of Turkish and Islamic Art Qur'an Collection, İstanbul, 2010. ISBN 978-975-7843-17-7(Antik
AŞ. Publication)
Ars Orientalis, Volume 39, Globalizing Cultures: Art and Mobility in the Eighteenth Century, guest-edited by Nebahat Avcıoğlu and Finbarr Barry Flood. Framed by an extensive introductory essay, the volume brings together seven articles addressing various aspects of the movement of cultural forms (dress, landscape, book illustration, among others) in Europe and Asia during the eighteenth century. Authors include Tülay Artan, Chanchal Dadlani, Elisabeth A. Fraser, Anton Schweizer, Avinoam Shalem, Kristel Smentak, Sanjay Subrahmanyam, and Mercedes Volait.
Implicate and Explicate, a monograph featuring the projects of the 2010 Aga Khan Award for Architecture, with essays by Mohammad Al-Asad, Farshid Moussavi, Mohsen Mostafavi, Hanif Kara and Oleg Grabar, as well as members of the Award Master Jury has been published by Lars Muller Publishers.
Additional information about "Implicate and Explicate" is available at
http://www.lars-mueller-publishers.com/en/catalogue-architecture#aga-khan-award-for-architecture-2010
Donald Quataert and Baki Tezcan, eds.
Beyond Dominant Paradigms in Ottoman and Middle Eastern/North African Studies: A Tribute to Rifa'at Abou-El-Haj. Istanbul: İSAM, 2010.
Donald S. Richards,
Mamluk administrative documents from St Catherine's Monastery, Leuven - Paris - Walpole, MA: Peeters ("Mémoires de l'Association pour la Promotion de l'Histoire et de l'Archéologie Orientales, Université de Liège", n° 5), 2011, 148 p. + 46 pl. ISBN 978-90-429-2333-1. 38 EUR. To order it, please visit Peeters' website at:
http://www.peeters-leuven.be/boekoverz.asp?nr=8805
Peter J. Chelkowski,
Eternal Performance: Taziyah and Other Shiite Rituals, University of Chicago, 2010.
Thomas Welsford,
Islamic Art and Architecture in the European Periphery: Crimea, Caucasus, and the Volga-Ural Region.
Nelly Hanna,
Artisan Entrepreneurs in Cairo and Early Modern Capitalism (1600–1800), Syracuse University Press, 2011.
Mamdouh Sakr,
The Mosques of Britain: How do British Muslims express their Identity?, 2010.
The Power of Things and the Flow of Cultural Transformation. Art and Culture between Europe and Asia, edited by Lieselotte E. Saurma-Jeltsch and Anja Eisenbeiss, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin-Munich, 2010.
Harem Histories: Envisioning Places and Living Spaces. Edited by Marilyn Booth (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2010).
An Ottoman Traveller Selections from the Book of Travels of Evliya Celebi. Translation and commentary by Robert Dankoff and Sooyong Kim. Eland Publishing Ltd, London, 2010.
2009-2010
Matthiae P., Pinnock F., Nigro F., and Marchetta N. (eds.) (2010).
Proceedings of the 6th International Congress on the Ancient Near East. "Sapienza" - Università di Roma, May, 5th-10th 2009, WIESBADEN: Harrassowitz, vol. 3.
Jung M., Di Flumeri Vatielli G., Giunta R. (2009).
Catalogo delle Monete islamiche. Parte seconda e terza, ROME: Artemide.
Jung M., (2009). “Pre-selgūq wall-paintings of the Masgid-i Jom‘e at Isfahan excavated by the Italian Archaeological Mission, ADAMJI Project”, in P. Matthiae et al. (ed.),
Proceedings of the 6th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East. May, 5th-10th 2009. “Sapienza”- Università di Roma, Vol. 3: 111-27. Wiesbaden.
Filigenzi A. Giunta R. (eds.) (2009).
The IsIAO Italian Archaeological Mission in Afghanistan 1957-2007. Fifty Years of Research in the Heart of Eurasia (Proceedings of the symposium held in the Istituto Italiano per l’Africa e l’Oriente, Rome, January 8th 2008), ROME: Ist. it. Africa e Oriente.
Akbarzadeh D., Cereti C.G., Sinisi F., (2009).
Glyptic Antiquities from the Museum of Khoy, Western Azerbaijan, Iran, Reports and memoirs, New Series, VIII, ROME: Ist. it. Africa e Oriente.
Vannini G., and Nucciotti M. (eds.) (2009).
Da Petra a Shawbak, Archeologia di una frontiera, FLORENCE: Giunti Editore.
FONTANA M.V. (2010). “The Islamic Archaeological Projects of IsIAO since 2004”, in:
Proceedings of the 6th International Congress on the Ancient Near East. "Sapienza" - Università di Roma, May, 5th-10th 2009, WIESBADEN: Harrassowitz, vol. 3 - Islamic Session, p. 37-43, ISBN/ISSN: 978-3-447-06217-6
FONTANA M.V. (2009). “Islamic Archaeology in Afghanistan: the Past and the New IsIAO Projects”, in:
Fifty Years of Research in the Heart of Eurasia. Proceedings of the Symposium held in the Istituto Italiano per l'Africa e l'Oriente, Rome, January 8th 2008. ROMA: IsIAO, vol. 21, p. 77-88, ISBN/ISSN: 978-88-6323-295-0
Maximilian Hartmuth and Ayse Dilsiz
, eds.
MONUMENTS, PATRONS, CONTEXTS: PAPERS ON OTTOMAN EUROPE PRESENTED TO MACHIEL KIEL. Leiden: Netherlands Institute for the Near East, 2010. ISBN 978-90-6258-326-3.
The volume, published in the PIHANS series of the Netherlands Institute in Istanbul, can be purchased online for the price of 43 Euros at the website of the Netherlands Institute for the Near East:
http://www.nino-leiden.nl/publication.aspx?BK_id=03026
Richard Boggs
, Hammaming in the Sham: A Journey through the Turkish Baths of Damascus, Aleppo and Beyond. Garnet Publishing,2010.
http://www.garnetpublishing.co.ukTo download the first 60 pages, please visit
http://www.ithacapress.co.uk/Free-Downloads/Hammaming-in-the-Sham-by-Richard-Boggs-First-ChapterTo view a video trailer, please visit:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ji3uhOQ_9s&feature=player_embedded
Nasser Rabbat, ed.
The Courtyard House between Cultural Reference and Universal Relevance. London: Ashgate, 2010.
http://www.gowerpub.com/default.aspx?page=637&calcTitle=1&pageSubject=320&title_id=4870&edition_id=7461
Nasser Rabbat.
Al-Mudun al-Mayyita: Durus min Madhih wa-Ru’an li-Mustaqbaliha (The Dead Cities: Lessons from its History and Views on its Future). Damascus: al-Aws Publishers, 2010.
http://www.discover-syria.com/news/7012
Nasser Rabbat.
Mamluk History Through Architecture: Building, Culture, and Politics in Mamluk Egypt and Syria. London: I. B. Tauris, 2010.
http://www.amazon.com/Mamluk-History-Through-Architecture-Monuments/dp/1845119649
Ingvild Flaskerud.
Visualising Belief and Piety in Iranian Shiism. University of Bergen, Norway, 2010. 320 pages; 9781441149077, £65.00
To order, please visit:
www.continuumbooks.com
Urs App.
The Birth of Orientalism. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010.
Sonja Brentjes.
Travellers from Europe in the Ottoman and Safavid Empires, 16th–17th Centuries: Seeking, Transforming, Discarding Knowledge. Variorum Collected Studies, AShgate, 2010.
www.ashgate.com
Neue Publikationsreihe des Museums für Islamische Kunst in Berlin: Die Sammlungen des Museums für Islamische Kunst Berlin
Band 1: Vorsicht Glas! Zerbrechliche Kunst 700-2010
Herausgegeben von Miriam Kühn
Band 2: Albumblätter: Miniaturen aus den Sammlungen indo-islamischer
Herrscherhöfe Almut von Gladiß
Beide Publikationen können Sie unter
https://smbkatalogshop.besucherdienst.org/Merchandise/Museum/id/18 bestellen oder im Museumsshop erwerben.
Venetia Porter, with Robert Hoyland, Alexander Morton and Shailendra Bandhare
Arabic and Persian Seals and Amulets in the British Museumhttp://www.oxbowbooks.com/bookinfo.cfm/ID/88215/location/DBBC
Andrea Lermer and Avinoam Shalem, eds.
After One Hundred Years The 1910 Exhibition "Meisterwerke muhammedanischer Kunst" Reconsidered, Brill, 2010.
Barbara Brend and A.H.Morton.
Muhammad Juki's Shanamah. (The Royal Asiatic Society, 2010).
www.royalasiaticsociety.org
Anne K. Rasmussen.
Women, the Recited Qur?an and Islamic Music in Indonesia (University of California Press, 2010)
http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520255494
Islamic Art in the Mediterranean thematic guides now also available as eBooks:
www.mwnfbooks.net, the book section of the MWNF portal, has been entirely restyled and is now online offering the following new products and services: Nine thematic guides related to the MWNF Exhibition Trails in Egypt, Italy, Jordan, Morocco, the Palestinian Territories, Portugal, Spain, Tunisia and Turkey are now available also as eBooks in English, French, Italian and Spanish through most online bookshops. Most titles are still available also as paperbacks and, if the paperback edition is out of stock, a Print on Demand edition can now be ordered in English. Further languages will follow. Two new Exhibition Trail catalogues - Algeria and Syria - are in preparation. Under Books by MWNF Partners we present MWNF titles published by our partner publishers as well as books published by third parties on topics that are of relevance to the activities of MWNF. In this section we are please to host organizations and companies publishing relevant titles that are available on the market. For further information please contact
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