Stucco in the Islamic World
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-3995-4353-8 (ISBN)
This is the first major book about Islamic stucco, and the central theme is the re-examination of the uses of stucco in architecture across the Islamic world in the pre-modern period.
The book engages with new methodological approaches, including those that go beyond traditional art-historical ones, and works with a wide range of disciplines, including material science and archaeology. It includes numerous sites that have not been previously studied in detail, as well as new approaches to the study of the material, and presents a greater understanding of the use of colour and understanding of materiality.
It includes contributions from a range of leading scholars from around the world working on this ubiquitous, important, but at times ephemeral and still poorly understood, medium in a wide variety of different cultural contexts. There are separate parts for each of the main geographic areas, with each of these sections arranged broadly chronologically. Coverage includes Iran and reaches as far afield as Spain and India.
Dr Richard Piran McClary is a Senior Lecturer in Islamic Art and Architecture at the University of York. He received his doctorate from the University of Edinburgh in 2015. He has lectured extensively on a range of subjects related to medieval Islamic art and architecture around the world, and has conducted fieldwork in India, Iran, Turkey, Central Asia and across the Middle East. He held a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship at the University of Edinburgh from 2015 to 2018, examining the surviving corpus of Qarakhanid architecture in Central Asia. His most recent monograph, Mina’i Ware (Edinburgh University Press, 2024) is the first comprehensive study of polychrome overglaze painted wares, and his second monograph is Medieval Monuments of Central Asia. Qarakhanid Architecture of the 11th and 12th Centuries, (Edinburgh University Press, 2020). His first monograph was Rum Seljuq Architecture 1170-1220. The Patronage of Sultans (Edinburgh University Press, 2017). He has co-edited a volume with Andrew Peacock, entitled Turkish History and Culture in India. Identity, Art and Transregional Connections (Brill, 2020), as well as numerous articles and book chapters on the topic of medieval Islamic architecture and ceramics. He has published articles in numerous journal, including Muqarnas, Iran, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society and Anatolian Studies. He has served as a trustee and the Research Director for the British Institute of Persian Studies, and is managing editor of the Journal of Islamic Art and Architecture.
Contributors
List of Illustrations
Introduction
1. Stucco in the Pre-Modern Islamic World: A Brief Historiography, and an Overview of the Current State of the Field
Richard Piran McClary (University of York)
I. Early Islamic Stucco
2. Stucco Decorations of the Church on Sir Bani Yas Island and their Artistic Context
Agnieszka Lic (University of Oxford)
3. Khirbat al-Mafjar and the Immersive Materiality of Early Medieval Interiors
Elizabeth Dospěl Williams (Dumbarton Oaks)
4. Early Abbasid Stucco Production in Mesopotamia and Greater Iran, circa 750-850
Andrea Luigi Corsi (Sapienza’ University of Rome)
5. Stucco fragments from the Abbasid Mosque in Afrasiyab/Samarkand: New Investigation into a Neglected Corpus
Sandra Aube (CNRS, Centre de Recherche sur le Monde Iranien, Paris) and Viola Allegranzi (Institute of Iranian Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna)
6. A New Approach to Studying the Abbasid Stucco from Samarra
Simone Struth (Museum of Islamic Art, Doha / University of Bamberg)
7. Innovation and Transformation in the Stucco of Bilad al-Sham
Stephennie Mulder (University of Texas, Austin)
8. Liminal lands and Liminal Materials: Calabrian Stucco Production between Byzantium, The Normans, and Islam
Flavia Vanni (University of Birmingham)
II. Stucco in The Medieval Persianate World
9. Stucco in the Architectural Decoration of the Ghaznavid Palace in Ghazni, Afghanistan (Eleventh-Twelfth Centuries)
Valentina Laviola (University of Naples “L’Orientale”) and Viola Allegranzi (Institute of Iranian Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna)
10. Stucco of the Seljuq Period in Iran, with a Focus on Dado Zones and Mihrabs
Iman Agajani and Lorenz Korn (University of Bamberg)
11. Seljuq Stucco from a House in the Sultan Kala, Merv: A Re-Examination
Tim Williams (Institute of Archaeology, UCL, London) and Richard Piran McClary (University of York)
12. Three Ilkhanid Stucco Mihrabs in Central Iran: Work of a Distinctive Regional Workshop?
Richard Piran McClary
13. Ilkhanid Stucco in Anatolia? The Mihrab of the Arslanhane Mosque in Ankara
Patricia Blessing (Princeton University)
14. Towards a Comprehension of Ilkhanid Stucco Style(s)
Ana Marija Grbanovic (Bamberg University)
III. Stucco in North Africa and Iberia
15. Stucco in Cairo: Indigenous Development and Imported Ideas
Bernard O’Kane (American University Cairo)
16. The Stucco of Qubbat Fadawiyya (1479-80) in Context: Revival of a Medium
Sami De Giosa (Arab Islamic Science Museum, Kuwait)
17. The Stucco Decorations of the Great Residences of Sedrata: State of Knowledge and Working Hypotheses
Patrice Cressier (CIHAM-UMR 5648, Lyon) and Sophie Gilotte (CIHAM-UMR 5648, CNRS Lyon)
18. Fatimid and Zirid Wall Stuccos of Sabra al-Mansuriyya
Patrice Cressier, Sophie Gilotte and Mourad Rammah (Institut National du Patrimoine, Kairouan)
19. Almoravid Stucco: The Qubbat al-Barudiyyin in Marrakech as Paradigm of Legitimacy
María Marcos Cobaleda (University of Málaga)
20. An Early Muqarnas Plaster Ceiling in the Alhambra Palace, Granada
Anna McSweeney (Trinity College Dublin)
21. Plasterwork in the Alhambra: Materiality, Design and Practice
Olga Bush (Vassar College/Princeton University)
IV. Stucco in The Indian Subcontinent
22. Stucco Decoration in Delhi Sultanate Architecture (Thirteenth to Sixteenth Centuries)
Yves Porter (Institut Universitaire de France)
23. Stucco Ornamentation of the Sultanate Kingdoms of the Deccan
Helen Philon (Deccan Heritage Foundation), with addendum by Will Kwiatkowski
24. Dusts of Sin and Clouds of Beneficence: Continuity and Creativity in Stucco at the Tomb of Jamali, Delhi
Parshati Dutta (University of York)
Bibliography
| Erscheinungsdatum | 14.05.2025 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Art |
| Zusatzinfo | 270 illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 170 x 244 mm |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam | |
| Technik ► Architektur | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-3995-4353-9 / 1399543539 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-3995-4353-8 / 9781399543538 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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