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  title info:
    title: Rivers of paradise
    sub title: water in Islamic art and culture
  title info:
    title: Water in Islamic art and culture
  name:
    name part: Blair, Sheila.
  name:
    name part: Bloom, Jonathan (Jonathan M.)
  name:
    name part: Biennial Hamad bin Khalifa Symposium on Islamic Art and Culture 2007 : Dawḥah, Qatar)
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: conference publication
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ctu
    date issued: 2009
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  language:
    language term: ara
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 364 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color) ; 30 cm.
  table of contents: Foreword / Richard E. Toscan -- Introduction / Sheila Blair and Jonathan Bloom -- Gardens beneath which rivers flow : the significance of water in classical Islamic culture / Carole Hillenbrand -- Control and abandon : images of water in Arabic poetry and gardens / Yasser Tabbaa -- From the heavens and hills : the flow of water to the fruited trees and ablution fountains in the Great Mosque of Córdoba / D. Fairchild Ruggles -- Sip, dip, and pour : toward a typology of water vessels in Islamic art / Linda Komaroff -- Stones to bring rain ? : magical inscriptions in linear Kufic on rock crystal amulet-seals / Venetia Porter -- Charity and piety : Sabil-Kuttabs and the conception of water during the Mamluk period / Howayda al-Harithy -- Art, infrastructure, and devotion : Ottoman water architecture / Walter Denny -- Water on the ground : water systems in two Ottoman Greek port cities / Marcus Milwright and Evanthia Baboula -- Drinking-water as message : the sabil of Muhammad 'ali Pasha in Cairo / Agnieszka Dobrowolska -- Far from the desert : water traditions in the South Asian landscape / Catherine B. Asher -- Paradise flooded : water and architecture in Bangladesh / Perween Hasan -- Landscape and hardscape : historical problems and contemporary solutions to the scarcity of water in the Islamic world / Mohammad al-Asad.
  note: edited by Sheila Blair and Jonathan Bloom.
  note: "The following essays are the written record of the second biennial Hamad bin Khalifa Symposium on Islamic Art and Culture, held at Virginia Commonwealth University's School of the Arts in Doha, Qatar (VCUQatar), from 4 to 6 November 2007"--introduction.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
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  subject:
    topic: Water in art
    genre: Congresses
  subject:
    topic: Islamic arts
    genre: Congresses
  subject:
    topic: Water and architecture
    geographic: Islamic countries
    genre: Congresses
  subject:
    topic: Water and civilization
    genre: Congresses
  classification: NX650.W37 R58 2009
  classification: 700.917/67
  identifier: 9780300158991 (cloth : alk. paper)
  identifier: 0300158998 (cloth : alk. paper)
  identifier: 2009013355
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 090330
    record change date: 20151111075151.0
    record identifier: in00002520808