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Baghdad : eye's delight
Baghdad (Silvana editoriale)
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- Creator
- authors [contributors] Reem Aboughazala [and twenty-seven others]
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- First edition
- Milano, Italy : Silvana Editoriale ; Doha, Qatar : Qatar Museums, 2022
- Physical Details
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- 301 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 28 cm
- ISBNs
- 9788836651436, 8836651437
- OCLC
- on1351696343
- Catalog accompanying the exhibition Baghdad: Eye's Delight presented October 25, 2022-February 25, 2023, at the Museum of Islamic Art, Doha.
- Includes bibliographical references and discography.
- Foreword / Her Excellency Sheikha Al Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani -- Introduction / Julia Gonnella -- Baghdad city of peace. The making of the 'round' city of Baghdad: on Abbasid glory, the sense of order, and urban surveillance / Avinoam Shalem ; Baghdad lives on in poetry and prose / Beatrice Gründler ; Baghdad under Buyid, Seljuq and Mongol rule / Vanessa Van Renterghem ; Urban strategies in Baghdad: reviewing a century of socio-urban schemes (1880-1980) / Caecilia Pieri ; Baghdad under King Faisal II: a Mecca for international architects / Pedro Azara ; Palimpsestic urbanism: glimpses of post-World War II Baghdad / Amin Alsaden ; Visions for the future: Iraqi architects of Baghdad / Reem Aboughazala and Sheikha Aljohara Al Thani -- Baghdad city of palaces. Builders of glory: the lost palaces of the Abbasid Dynasty / Thomas Leisten ; 'And the eyes gaze, roaming in a brilliant place': behind the walls of Abbasid palaces / Simone Struth ; Dress to impress: fashion at the early Abbasid court / Tara Desjardins ; The palaces of Baghdad during the 19th and 20th centuries / Ihsan Fethi ; From slave to queen: the story of al-Khayzuran / Nicoletta Fazio and Simone Struth -- Baghdad city of knowledge. 'You have a wisdom that made life continue': searching for knowledge in Baghdad / Nicoletta Fazio ; The translation movement in Abbasid Baghdad / Kevin T. van Bladel ; Book culture and manuscript production in Baghdad: from the Mongols to the Ottomans / Massumeh Farhad and Simon Rettig ; Baghdad and its historians / Jens Scheiner ; Books, libraries, al-Mutanabbi Street / Wassilena Sekulova -- Baghdad city of markets and commerce. Baghdad and the markets / Hugh Kennedy ; Basra, gateway to the Indian Ocean from the 10th to the 20th century / Andrew Petersen ; Between the desert and the sown: the canals of Baghdad / Magnús T. Bernhardsson ; Modern Baghdad and the art of infrastructure / Peter H. Christensen ; Abbasid gold: textiles and jewellery / Tara Desjardins -- Baghdad city of the people. 'New York on the Tigris': demography, society and daily life in Baghdad / Mounia Chekhab-Abudaya ; Baghdad at the crossroads of musics from the Arab and near eastern worlds / Véronique Rieffel ; The Arabic free verse poets: a Baghdadi avant-garde literary movement in the 20th century / Shathil Nawaf Taqa ; Whose modern Baghdad? Artistic depictions of city life in the mid-20th century / Sarah Johnson ; Eyewitness in Iraq: photography of everyday life / Giles M. Hudson