BurckhardtAI / Arte do Islã / Art of Islam

BURCKHARDT  , Titus. Art of Islam : language and meaning. Bloomington: World Wisdom, 2009

• Chapter I Prologue: The Kaʿba
  • Notes to Chapter I
• Chapter II The Birth of Islamic Art
  • 1 The Second “Revelation”
  • 2 The Dome of the Rock
  • 3 The Umayyads
  • 4 Mshattā
  • 5 The Great Umayyad Mosque at Damascus
  • Notes to Chapter II
• Chapter III The Question of Images
  • 1 Aniconism
  • 2 The Persian Miniature
  • Notes to Chapter III
• Chapter IV The Common Language of Islamic Art
  • 1 Arab Art, Islamic Art
  • 2 Arabic Calligraphy
  • 3 The Arabesque
  • 4 The Sphere and the Cube
  • 5 The Alchemy   of Light
  • Notes to Chapter IV
• Chapter V Art and Liturgy
  • 1 The Nature and Role of Sacred Art
  • 2 The Miḥrāb
  • 3 The Minbar
  • 4 Tombs
  • 5 The Art of Apparel
  • Notes to Chapter V
• Chapter VI The Art of Sedentaries and Nomadic Art
  • 1 Dynasties and Ethnic Groups
  • 2 The Art of the Carpet
  • 3 Knightly Art
  • Note to Chapter VI