Byzantium and Islam : age of transition, 7th-9th century /
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New York, N.Y. : New Haven [Conn.] :
Metropolitan Museum of Art ; Distributed by Yale University Press,
c2012
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Table of Contents:
- Byzantium. Byzantium and Islam : age of transition (7th-9th century) / Helen C. Evans. Gerasa / Lisa R. Brody ; Heraclius / Helen C. Evans ; Classical survival / Helen C. Evans ; Sasanian expansion to the Mediterranean / Alexander Nagel
- Christian communities during the early Islamic centuries / Brandie Ratliff. Sinai from the seventh to the ninth century : continuity in the midst of change / Hieromonk Justin of Sinai ; Icons from the Monastery of Saint Catherine at Mount Sinai / Kathleen Corrigan ; Arab Christians ; Sidney H. Griffith ; The Syriac Church / Nancy Khalek ; Coptic Christianity / Elizabeth S. Bolman ; The White Monastery Federation and the angelic life / Elizabeth S. Bolman ; The Coptic Monastery of Bawit / Dominique Bénazeth ; The Stylites of Syria / Brandie Ratliff ; Mosaics during the Byzantine and early Islamic periods / Robert Schick ; Jews and Judaism between Byzantium and Islam / Steven Fine ; Christian mosaics in early Islamic Jordan and Palestine : a case of regional iconoclasm / Finbarr B. Flood
- Commerce. "Ornaments of excellence" from "the miserable gains of commerce" : luxury art and Byzantine culture / Thelma K. Thomas. Arab-Byzantine coins : money as cultural continuity / Clive Foss ; Weights and measures from Byzantium and Islam / Stefan Heidemann ; Silks / Thelma K. Thomas ; Dress styles from Syria to Libya / Cäcilia Fluck ; Materials and techniques of late antique and early Islamic textiles found in Egypt / Kathrin Colburn ; Animal motifs / Mina Moraitou ; Vine rinceaux / Gabriele Mietke ; Inscribed textiles / Cäcilia Fluck ; Inscribed objects / Robert Schick ; Jewelry : ideologies and transformation / Stephen R. Zwirn ; Women / Mina Moraitou
- Islam. Country estates, material culture, and the celebration of princely life : Islamic art and the secular domain / Anna Ballian. Qasr al-Mshatta / Anna Ballian ; Al-Fudayn / Anna Ballian ; Al-Qastal / Anna Ballian ; An Abbasid residence at al-Humayma / Rebecca M. Foote ; Ornamental motifs in early Islamic art / Mina Moraitou ; Fustat / Iman R. Abdulfattah ; Secular inscriptions / Mina Moraitou
- Faith, religion, and the material culture of early Islam / Finbarr B. Flood. Religious inscriptions in early Islamic art / Linda Komaroff ; The Qur'an / Finbarr B. Flood.