Metalwork and Material Culture in the Islamic World: Art, Craft and Text

Contents
Contributors
Introduction
1. The principle of parsimony and the problem of the ‘Mosul School of metalwork’
PART 1 - Metalwork from the iranian world
	2. metalwork and fourteenth-century persian painting: a Footnote
	3. the die-engraver of balkh (290/902-302/914)
	4. the ugly duckling of iranian metalwork? initial remarks on qajar copper and copper-alloy objects in the national museums of scotland
PART 2 - Iran and india
	5. Gilding, inlay and the mobility of metallurgy: A case of fraud in medieval Kashmir
	6. A tubular bronze object from khurasan
	7. Persians abroad: the case of the jami ‘ Masj id of Gulbarga
PART 3 - Mamluk metalwork in focus
	8. An extraordinary mamluk casket in the fitzwilliam museum
	9. A mamluk tray and its journey to the v&A
	10. arabic titles, well-wishes and a female saint: a mamluk basin in the rijksmuseum, amsterdam
PART 4 - Egypt and Syria: artefact and text
	11. A bronze tambourine player
	12. The fatimid bronze hoard of tiberias
	13. A group of round boxes from the metal hoard found in caesarea
	14. Islamic embroideries from egypt: shifts in taste, change in status
	15. Metalworking in damascus at the end of the ottoman period: an analysis of the qamu s al-sina ‘at al-shamiyya
PART 5 - The islamic west
	16. A bronze pillar lampstand from petralia sottana, sicily
	17. The metal mounts on andalusi ivories: initial observations
	18. The marble spolia from the badi ‘ palace in marrakesh
PART 6 - Ceramic technology and innovation
	19. Glaze-decorated unglazed wares
	20. Pearl cups like the moon: the abbasid reception of chinese ceramics and the belitung shipwreck
	21. Branding ‘tradition’ in contemporary tin-glaze pottery from puebla
PART 7 - Studies in lustreware
	22. The lion, the hare and lustreware
	23. Said el sadr ( 1909–86) and fatimid lustreware: a succession
	24. potter’s trail: an abu zayd ewer in the saint louis art museum
PART 8 - Painting traditions and contemporary art
	25. From the workshops of new julfa to the court of tsar aleksei mikhailovich: an initial look at armenian networks and the mobility of visual culture
	26. Modern palimpsests: what defines a fake?
	27. ‘Neo-calligraphism’ and its different varieties in modern and contemporary iranian art
	28. Meem 1958, by siah armajani
Bibliography of james allan’s publications
General bibliography
Index