Arab Painting (Handbook of Oriental Studies Handbuch Der Orientalistik)

Contents\n......Page 6
Foreword (Craig Clunas)......Page 8
Introduction (and Acknowledgements) (Anna Contadini)......Page 10
Section I Theoretical Issues......Page 14
The Manuscript as a Whole (Anna Contadini)......Page 16
What does \'Arab Painting\' Mean? (Oleg Grabar)......Page 30
Section 2 Scientific Manuscripts......Page 36
Art in the Name of Science: The Kitäb al-Diryäq in Text and Image (Jaclynne J. Kerner)......Page 38
Text and Illustrations. Dioscorides and the Illustrated Herbal in the Arab Tradition (Michael J. Rogers)......Page 54
Elusive Giraffes: Ibn Abi l-hawäfir\'s Badäi al-Akwän and Other Animal Books (Remke Kruk)......Page 62
Mapping the Mnemonic: A Late Thirteenth-Century Copy of al-sufï\'s Book of the Constellations (Moya Carey)......Page 78
From Iraq to Fars: Tracking Cultural Transformations in the 1322 Qazwīnī \'Ajā\'ib Manuscript (Persis Berlekamp)......Page 86
Section 3 Literary Manuscripts......Page 106
The Earliest Islamic Illustrated Manuscript, the Maqīmīt and a Graveyard at Suhīr, Oman (Geoffrey R. D. King)......Page 108
Love Localized and Science from Afar: \'Arab Painting\', Iberian Courtly Culture, and the Hadïth Bayäd wa Riyäd (Vat. Ar. Ris. 368) (Cynthia Robinson)......Page 116
The Schefer Harïrï: A Study in Islamic Frontispiece Design (Robert Hillenbrand)......Page 130
The Uses of Captions in Medieval Literary Arabic Manuscripts (Bernard O\'Kane)......Page 148
Section 4 The European Connection......Page 158
Anatomical Illustration in Arabic Manuscripts (Emilie Savage-Smith)......Page 160
The \'Translation\' of Diagrams and Illustrations from Arabic into Latin (Charles Burnett)......Page 174
Introductory Bibliography......Page 190
Illustrations\n......Page 192
Index......Page 278