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Envisioning Islamic Art and Architecture: Essays in Honor of Renata Holod is a collection of studies on the portable arts, arts of the book, painting, photography, and architecture spanning the medieval and modern periods and across the historical Islamic lands. The essays reflect the wide-ranging interests and diverse methodologies of Renata Holod and attend to the physical, material, and aesthetic properties of their objects, offer nuanced explanations of complex relations between objects and historical contexts, and remain critically aware of the shape of the field of Islamic art and architecture, its canonical objects, approaches, and historiographies.Essential reading for scholars working on Islam and the Islamic world in the disciplines of history of art and architecture, history, literature, and anthropology.SommaireEditor’s ForewordNote on TransliterationD. FAIRCHILD RUGGLES, Inventing the AlhambraCYNTHIA ROBINSON, Power, Light, Intra-Confessional Discontent and the AlmoravidsMARÍA JUDITH FELICIANO, Medieval Textiles in Iberia: Studies for a New ApproachLESLEE KATRINA MICHELSEN AND JOHANNA OLAFSDOTTER, Telling Tales: Investigating a Mināʾī BowlSTEPHENNIE MULDER, Seeing the Light: Enacting the Divine at Three Medieval Syrian ShrinesPUSHKAR SOHONI, Patterns of Faith: Mosque Typologies and Sectarian Affiliation in the Kingdom of AhmadnagarALISON MACKENZIE SHAH, Saints, Samāʿ, and the Politics of Charisma in Late-Nineteenth-Century Hyderabad, IndiaYAEL RICE, Between the Brush and the Pen: On the Intertwined Histories of Mughal Painting and CalligraphyDAVID J. ROXBURGH, “Many a wish has turned to dust”: Pir Budaq and the Formation of Turkmen Arts of the BookCHRISTIANE GRUBER, The Rose of the Prophet: Floral Metaphors in Late Ottoman Devotional ArtNANCY MICKLEWRIGHT, Picturing the “Abode of Felicity” in 1919: A Photograph Album of IstanbulVoir sur le site de l’éditeur