What meanings did these motifs have in their new contexts?

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1. How did the Umayyads incorporate earlier (i.e. Byzantine or Sasanian motifs)
and styles into the decorative programmes of their palaces and mosques?
What meanings did these motifs have in their new contexts?
Suggested Bibliography:
-Garth Fowden, Qusayr ‘Amra: Art and the Umayyad Elite in Late Antique
Syria (Berkeley, 2004): https://tinyurl.com/yxtn44fp
-Alain George and Andrew Marsham, eds., Power, Patronage, and Memory in
Early Islam: Perspectives on Umayyad Elites (Oxford, 2018):
https://tinyurl.com/yylxvu89
-Alain George, The Umayyad Mosque of Damascus: Art, Faith, and Empire in
Early Islam (London, 2021): https://tinyurl.com/5bw7mwa9
-Nasser Rabbat, ‘The Dialogic Dimension of Umayyad Art’, Res: Anthropology
and Aesthetics 43 (Spring, 2003): 78-94: https://tinyurl.com/y37vmd3l
2. What are the fundamental characteristics of Abbasid art? What visual features
did the Abbasids value in their art and architecture?
Suggested Bibliography:
-Marcus Milwright, ‘Samarra and Abbasid ornament’, in F. B. Flood and G.
Necipoğlu, eds., A Companion to Islamic Art and Architecture (2017):
https://tinyurl.com/yckbtkzv
-Matthew D. Saba, ‘A Restricted Gaze: The Ornament of the Main Caliphal
Palace of Samarra’, Muqarnas 32 (2015): https://tinyurl.com/2p97n9vk
-Eva R. Hoffman, ‘Between East and West: The Wall Paintings of Samarra
and the Construction of Abbasid Princely Culture’, Muqarnas 25 (2008):
https://tinyurl.com/4jx4acyw
-Matthew D. Saba, ‘Abbasid Lusterware and the Aesthetics of ‘Ajab’,
Muqarnas 29, 1 (2012): https://tinyurl.com/y2x8rx8n
3. What features make the Great Mosque of Córdoba such an important
monument? How is its architecture related to earlier (eastern) Umayyad
architecture?
Suggested Bibliography:
-Nuha Khoury, ‘The Meaning of the Great Mosque of Córdoba in the Tenth
Century’, Muqarnas 13 (1996): https://tinyurl.com/y22xo75s
-Susana Calvo Capilla, ‘The Visual Construction of the Umayyad Caliphate in
Al-Andalus through the Great Mosque of Cordoba’, Arts 7, 3 (2018):
https://tinyurl.com/2hv2dbbw
-Heather Ecker, ‘The Great Mosque of Córdoba in the Twelfth and Thirteenth
Centuries’, Muqarnas 20, 1 (2003): https://tinyurl.com/y24kgggq
-Glaire D. Anderson and Jennifer Pruitt, ‘The Three Caliphates, A
Comparative Approach’, in F. B. Flood and G. Necipoğlu, eds., A Companion
to Islamic Art and Architecture (2017): https://tinyurl.com/y2kfky73
4. How are Fatimid architecture and architectural decoration related to earlier
(Islamic and non-Islamic) traditions? Is Fatimid architecture derivative, or does
it combine previous traditions to form a novel style?
Suggested Bibliography:
-Jennifer Pruitt, Building the Caliphate: Construction, Destruction, and
Sectarian Identity in Early Fatimid Architecture (New Haven, 2020):
https://tinyurl.com/y6lgcc7q
-Jonathan Bloom, Art of the City Victorious: Islamic Art and Architecture in
Fatimid North Africa and Egypt (New Haven, 2007):
https://tinyurl.com/y6fbxctr
-Irene Bierman, Writing Signs: The Fatimid Public Text (Berkeley, 1996)
-Glaire D. Anderson and Jennifer Pruitt, ‘The Three Caliphates, A
Comparative Approach’, in F. B. Flood and G. Necipoğlu, eds., A Companion
to Islamic Art and Architecture (2017): https://tinyurl.com/y2kfky73
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5. What makes the Ibn al-Bawwab manuscript in the Chester Beatty Library such
an important object for the study of the Islamic arts of the book? Discuss both
the calligraphy (style of writing) and ornament of the manuscript.
Suggested Bibliography:
-On the manuscript itself: https://viewer.cbl.ie/viewer/object/Is_1431/2/
-D.S. Wright, The Unique Ibn al-Bawwab Manuscript in the Chester Beatty
Library (Dublin, 1955): https://tinyurl.com/y2h3lfqg [also available as a PDF, at
https://chesterbeatty.ie/about/resources/research-services/, scroll down to
‘Downloads’, and the book is under the ‘Islamic Collections’ tab.
-Elaine Julia Wright, Islam: Faith, Art, Culture: Manuscripts of the Chester
Beatty Library (London, 2009): https://tinyurl.com/y2fv5t8a
-David J. Roxburgh, ‘On the Transmission and Reconstruction of Arabic
Calligraphy: Ibn al-Bawwab and History’, Studia Islamica 96 (2003):
https://tinyurl.com/2p9b74rj
-Maryam Ekhtiar, How to Read Islamic Calligraphy (New York, 2018):
https://tinyurl.com/y4esbayw
-David J. Roxburgh, ‘“The Eye is Favored for Seeing the Writing’s Form”: On
the Sensual and the Sensuous in Islamic Calligraphy’, Muqarnas 25, 1 (2008):
https://tinyurl.com/y4cf6sap
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