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Yasser Tabbaa's "The Transformation of Islamic Art During the Sunni Revival"
A Macat Analysis
Author: Macat, Yasser Tabbaa
Narrator: Macat.com
Unabridged: 2 hr 7 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Macat
Published: 01/31/2018
Category: Literary Criticism - Subjects & Themes
Synopsis
Tabbaa's The Transformation of Islamic Art offers an innovative approach to understanding the profound changes undergone by Islamic art and architecture during the often neglected Medieval Islamic period.Tabbaa argues that devices such as calligraphy, arabesque, muqarnas, and stonework were propagated during a moment of confrontation and facilitated the re-emergence of the Sunni Abbasid caliphate in a more orthodox image. Tabbaa offers a timely and thought-provoking alternative to conventional essentialist, positivist and ethno-narrative interpretations of Islamic art.