ART
This book is a collection of papers from the 15th Giorgio Levi Della Vida Conference which explore the meaning of Islamic art in liminal contexts. The volume opens with an extended essay on various modes of experience of Islamic art, examining the origins and the continuing use of the so-called Mantle of Roger II of Sicily and the Capella Palatina in Palermo as case studies of Islamic art in liminal spatial and temporal zones. The book also looks at the use of Mamluk luxury objects in the...
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Introduction11The experience of Islamic art112Letters and language/ornament and identity in Byzantium and Islam613"Islamic" art and architecture in French colonial discourse : Algeria, 1930894The articulation of Islamic space in the medieval Deccan1135Memories of broken idols133
