Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Illustration ix
5. Contributors xiv
6. Acknowledgments xv
7. Chapter one. Birds and Blessings: Akohl-pot from Jerusalem 1
8. Chapter two. Remarks on the Iconography of the Medieval Capitals of Cairo: Form and Emplacement 23
9. Chapter Three. A mongol envoy 45
10. Chapter four. Almoravid geometric designs in the pavement of the Cappella Palatina in Palermo 61
11. Chapter five. A kingly posture: the iconography of sultan Husayn Bayqara 81
12. Chapter six. Musical Beasts: The swan-phoenix in the Ibn Bakhtīshū 93
13. Chapter seven. Cup, branch, bird and fish: an Iconographical study of the figure holding a cup and a branch flanked by a bird and a fish 103
14. Chapter eight. Islamic incense-burners and the influence of Buddhist art 127
15. Chapter nine. vine ornament and pomegranates as palace decoration in 'Anjar 143
16. Chapter ten. Persianate trends in sultanate arhitecture: the great Mosque of Bada'un 159
17. Chapter eleven. Silks, pots and jugs: Al-Jahiz and objects of Common Use 197
18. Chapter twelve. Khusrau Parviz as champion of Shi'ism? A closer look at an early Safavid miniature painting in the royal museum of Edinburgh 201
19. Chapter thirteen 'Waves of the Sea': responses to marble in written sources (ninth-fifteenth centuries) 211
20. Chapter fourteen. The arboreal Aesthetic: landscape, painting and architecture from Mongol Iran to Mamluk Egypt 223
21. Chapter fifteen. Te Vicissitudes of Rustam a 253
22. Chapter sixteen. Made for the show: the medieval treasury of the Ka'ba in Mecca 269
23. Chapter seventeen. A pictorial representation of the Ḥadīth al-thaqalayn in an Ilkhanid Copy of Bal'ami's Tarjuma-yi tarikh-i Tabari in the Freer Gallery 285
24. Chapter eighteen. Style versus substance: the christian iconography on two vessels made for the Ayyubid sultan al-Salih Ayyub 309
25. Bibliography of Robert Hillenbrand's Work 325
26. Index 331