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  1. Islam and the devotional object
    seeing religion in Egypt and Syria
    Author: McGregor, Richard
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    "In this book, Richard J. A. McGregor offers a history of Islamic practice through the aesthetic reception of medieval religious objects. Elaborate parades in Cairo and Damascus included decorated objects of great value, destined for Mecca and... more

    Location:
    Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Max-Planck-Institut, Bibliothek

    Location:
    Universitätsbibliothek der LMU München
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    "In this book, Richard J. A. McGregor offers a history of Islamic practice through the aesthetic reception of medieval religious objects. Elaborate parades in Cairo and Damascus included decorated objects of great value, destined for Mecca and Medina. Among these were the precious dress sewn yearly for the Ka'ba, and large colorful sedans mounted on camels, which mysteriously completed the Hajj without carrying a single passenger. Along with the brisk trade in Islamic relics, these objects and the variety of contested meanings attached to them, constituted material practices of religion that persisted into the colonial era, but were suppressed in the twentieth century. McGregor here recovers the biographies of religious objects, including relics, banners, public texts, and coverings for the Ka'ba. Reconstructing the premodern visual culture of Islamic Egypt and Syria, he follows the shifting meanings attached to objects of devotion, as well as the contingent nature of religious practice and experience"--

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9781108483841; 9781108705219
    RVK Categories: BE 8650
    Subjects: Islam; Islam; Islam; Religionsausübung; Islam; Sachkultur; Kultgegenstand; Rezeptionsästhetik
    Scope: xiii, 267 Seiten, Illustrationen, Karten, Pläne
    Notes:

    Enthält Literaturverzeichnis auf Seite 235-260
  2. Islam and the devotional object
    seeing religion in Egypt and Syria
    Author: McGregor, Richard
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    "In this book, Richard J. A. McGregor offers a history of Islamic practice through the aesthetic reception of medieval religious objects. Elaborate parades in Cairo and Damascus included decorated objects of great value, destined for Mecca and... more

    Location:
    Freie Universität Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek
    Inter-library loan:
    Unlimited inter-library loan, copies and loan

    Location:
    Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek, Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrum
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    Unlimited inter-library loan, copies and loan

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    Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Kunstbibliothek
    Inter-library loan:
    Unlimited inter-library loan, copies and loan

     

    "In this book, Richard J. A. McGregor offers a history of Islamic practice through the aesthetic reception of medieval religious objects. Elaborate parades in Cairo and Damascus included decorated objects of great value, destined for Mecca and Medina. Among these were the precious dress sewn yearly for the Ka'ba, and large colorful sedans mounted on camels, which mysteriously completed the Hajj without carrying a single passenger. Along with the brisk trade in Islamic relics, these objects and the variety of contested meanings attached to them, constituted material practices of religion that persisted into the colonial era, but were suppressed in the twentieth century. McGregor here recovers the biographies of religious objects, including relics, banners, public texts, and coverings for the Ka'ba. Reconstructing the premodern visual culture of Islamic Egypt and Syria, he follows the shifting meanings attached to objects of devotion, as well as the contingent nature of religious practice and experience"--

     
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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9781108483841; 9781108705219
    RVK Categories: BE 8650
    Subjects: Islam; Islam; Islam; Religionsausübung; Islam; Sachkultur; Kultgegenstand; Rezeptionsästhetik
    Scope: xiii, 267 Seiten, Illustrationen, Karten, Pläne
    Notes:

    Enthält Literaturverzeichnis auf Seite 235-260
  3. Islam and the devotional object
    seeing religion in Egypt and Syria
    Author: McGregor, Richard
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom

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    Content information
    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9781108483841; 9781108705219; 1108483844
    Other identifier:
    9781108483841
    RVK Categories: BE 8650
    DDC Categories: 290
    Subjects: Islam; Islam; Islam
    Scope: xiii, 267 Seiten, Illustrationen, Karten, 26 cm
    Notes:

    Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 235-260