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Islamic Art Spots
for the NEH/ALA Muslim Bookshelf
D. Fairchild Ruggles
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
[email protected]
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7 Islamic Art Spots, each approximately 8 minutes long
• Calligraphy
• Mosques and Religious Architecture
• The Arts of Trade and Travel
• Islamic Gardens
• Islamic Textiles
• Geometry
• The Arts of the Book and Miniature Painting
Produced by Twin Cities Public Television for the National Endowment for the
Humanities in collaboration with the American Library Association
10th-c. Quran manuscript
angular Kufic script with gold chapter heading
Muslim Bookshelf: Pathways of Faith
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Greg Barker, Koran By Heart: One Chance to Remember (film)
Ingrid Mattson, The Story of the Quran
F.E. Peters, The Children of Abraham: Judaism, Christianity, Islam
Jonathan Brown, Muhammad: A Very Short Introduction
Great Mosque of Cordoba (Spain)
Muslim Bookshelf: Pathways of Faith
Great Mosque of Cordoba (Spain)
Muslim Bookshelf: Pathways of Faith
TRAVEL
Islamic Art Spot “The Arts of Trade and Travel”
■ Venetia Porter, The Art of Hajj
■ Amin Maalouf, Leo Africanus
■ Stewart Gordon, When Asia Was the World:
Traveling Merchants, Scholars, Warriors,
and Monks
■ Amitav Ghosh, In an Antique Land
Astrolabe for
determining direction
Muslim Bookshelf: Connected Histories
Pilgrim caravan
Travel by boat
Muslim Bookshelf: Connected Histories
Caravanserai for visiting merchants in Granada
Muslim Bookshelf: Connected Histories
Pilgrimage
Trade in people (slaves) and goods
Intellectual curiosity
Muslim Bookshelf: Connected Histories
FAITH
Islamic Art Spots “The Mosque” and “Calligraphy”
Champaign, IL
Mosque
Muslim Bookshelf: American Stories
Different types of mosques
Cordoba Mosque (Spain)
mihrab (prayer niche)
Mosque of Djenné (Mali)
Muslim Bookshelf: Pathways of Faith & Connected Histories
Different types of mosques
Istanbul (Turkey)
Yogyakarta (Indonesia)
Muslim Bookshelf: Pathways of Faith & Connected Histories
Leila Ahmed, A Quiet Revolution: The Veil’s Resurgence
Willow Wilson, Butterfly Mosque
Fatima Mernissi, Dreams of Trespass
Muslim Bookshelf: Points of View
The Quran and the
Beauty of Calligraphy
■ Greg Barker, Koran By
Heart (film)
■ Ingrid Mattson, The Story of
the Quran
Muslim Bookshelf: Pathways of Faith
Persian tile
Ottoman
sultan’s
signature
Persian calligraphy page
Islamic Art Spot:
“The Arts of the Book and Miniature Painting”
Gold-stamped
Quran manuscript
Muslim Bookshelf: Pathways of Faith
SCIENCE
Islamic Art Spot “Geometry”
Muslim Bookshelf: Connected Histories
Mosque clocks in Sri Lanka
11th-c. Arabian astrolabe
Muslim Bookshelf: Connected Histories
■ Jim al-Khalili, The House of Wisdom: How Arabic Science
Saved Ancient Knowledge and Gave Us the Renaissance
■ Maria Menocal, Ornament of the World
Muslim Bookshelf: Connected Histories
The Quran on qibla
(orientation):
“Wherever you come from
turn towards the Holy Mosque:
This in truth is from your Lord.
God is not negligent of all you do.
Whichever place you come from
turn towards the Holy Mosque,
and wherever you are, turn your faces towards it….”
Muslim Bookshelf: Pathways of Faith
Ibn Battuta – world traveler in the 14th century
A longer excerpt from Ibn Battuta is included in Stewart Gordon,
When Asia Was the World: Traveling Merchants, Scholars, Warriors,
and Monks
Muslim Bookshelf: Connected Histories
Ibn Battuta’s account of traveling from the Indian
coast to China:
“Their custom when travelling on that river is to
disembark in the evening and pass the night in the
villages on its banks, returning to the boat in the
morning. We used to do this too. There was no Muslim
on the boat except the man I had hired, and he used to
drink wine with the infidels when we went ashore and
annoy me with his brawling, which made things all the
worse for me.”
Muslim Bookshelf: Connected Histories
Islamic Art Spots: “Textiles” & “Calligraphy”
Mecca: Textile-wrapped Kaaba,
toward which prayer is oriented
Muslim Bookshelf: Pathways of Faith
Islamic Art Spot: “Gardens”
Islamic Art Spot: “Gardens”
■ Robert Gardner, Islamic Art: Mirror of the
Invisible World (film)
■ S. Blair and J. Bloom, Islamic Arts
■ Venetia Porter, Art of Hajj
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learning communities?