The 2021 Orion Lecture, Department of Art History and Visual Studies, University of Victoria, BC ... more The 2021 Orion Lecture, Department of Art History and Visual Studies, University of Victoria, BC Canada (Webinar) February 25, 2021 Conversation with Marcus Milwright, AHVS Chair
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Sacred Engagements: Religion And Ritual In The Museum. CAA, February 10-13, 2... more Paper presented in Sacred Engagements: Religion And Ritual In The Museum. CAA, February 10-13, 2021
The Bobrinski bucket, made in Herat in 599/1163, is one of the most iconic metalwork objects stud... more The Bobrinski bucket, made in Herat in 599/1163, is one of the most iconic metalwork objects studied by historians of Islamic art. To date, art historical scholarship on the bucket has focused on interpreting its decorative programme and identifying the decorator, Mas'ud ibn Ahmad, whose name is inscribed on the bucket, as the 'artist' who had the intellectual property of the design and its application. In this essay, I investigate the meaning of signatures left by 'artists' by examining the range of possible relationships between four men whose names appear in the dedication inscription of the Bobrinski bucket. The legal writings of Hanafī jurists from Khurasan and Transoxiana, including al-Sarakhsī (d. ca. 1090), provide an important, and hitherto unexplored, source for understanding the legal rights and responsibilities of the different parties involved in the production of a metalwork object from conception to final product, including the stages of commissioning, manufacture, sale, and repair. The treatment by Muslim jurists of the different forms of trade provides a better understanding of the potential legal and contractual capacity in which a metalwork artist could sign his work.
... 2). Two emblems (penfes) with the words Muhammad, Amin, and silah?or-i hassa, Abu ... a limit... more ... 2). Two emblems (penfes) with the words Muhammad, Amin, and silah?or-i hassa, Abu ... a limited number of congregational mosques, such as the mosques of Aleppo, Tripoli, Hama, and Baalbek ... last three decades of the eighteenth century by the Egyptian campaigns of Ali Bey al ...
... Ahmad Gunny Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies A Gazetteer of Buildings in Muslim Palestine (P... more ... Ahmad Gunny Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies A Gazetteer of Buildings in Muslim Palestine (Part 1) By ANDREW PETERSEN (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), 340 pp. Price HB £99.00. ISBN 0197270115. ... Ruba Kana'an Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies ...
... Titre du document / Document title. The architecture of al-Qasr on the Kerak Plateau: an essa... more ... Titre du document / Document title. The architecture of al-Qasr on the Kerak Plateau: an essay in the chronology of vernacular architecture. Auteur(s) / Author(s). RUBA KANA'AN ; MCQUITTY A. ; Résumé / Abstract. ... Islam. ; Jordan. ; Century 20 AD. ; Architecture. ; Village. ; Typology ...
... 189-204 Two Ottoman Sabils in Jaffa (c. 1810-1815): an Architectural and Epigraphic AnalysisR... more ... 189-204 Two Ottoman Sabils in Jaffa (c. 1810-1815): an Architectural and Epigraphic AnalysisRuba Kana'an The Oriental Institute, Oxford, OXl 2LE, England This article discusses two sabils built in Jaffa during the second decade of the nineteenth century. ...
The 2021 Orion Lecture, Department of Art History and Visual Studies, University of Victoria, BC ... more The 2021 Orion Lecture, Department of Art History and Visual Studies, University of Victoria, BC Canada (Webinar) February 25, 2021 Conversation with Marcus Milwright, AHVS Chair
Paper presented in
Sacred Engagements: Religion And Ritual In The Museum. CAA, February 10-13, 2... more Paper presented in Sacred Engagements: Religion And Ritual In The Museum. CAA, February 10-13, 2021
The Bobrinski bucket, made in Herat in 599/1163, is one of the most iconic metalwork objects stud... more The Bobrinski bucket, made in Herat in 599/1163, is one of the most iconic metalwork objects studied by historians of Islamic art. To date, art historical scholarship on the bucket has focused on interpreting its decorative programme and identifying the decorator, Mas'ud ibn Ahmad, whose name is inscribed on the bucket, as the 'artist' who had the intellectual property of the design and its application. In this essay, I investigate the meaning of signatures left by 'artists' by examining the range of possible relationships between four men whose names appear in the dedication inscription of the Bobrinski bucket. The legal writings of Hanafī jurists from Khurasan and Transoxiana, including al-Sarakhsī (d. ca. 1090), provide an important, and hitherto unexplored, source for understanding the legal rights and responsibilities of the different parties involved in the production of a metalwork object from conception to final product, including the stages of commissioning, manufacture, sale, and repair. The treatment by Muslim jurists of the different forms of trade provides a better understanding of the potential legal and contractual capacity in which a metalwork artist could sign his work.
... 2). Two emblems (penfes) with the words Muhammad, Amin, and silah?or-i hassa, Abu ... a limit... more ... 2). Two emblems (penfes) with the words Muhammad, Amin, and silah?or-i hassa, Abu ... a limited number of congregational mosques, such as the mosques of Aleppo, Tripoli, Hama, and Baalbek ... last three decades of the eighteenth century by the Egyptian campaigns of Ali Bey al ...
... Ahmad Gunny Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies A Gazetteer of Buildings in Muslim Palestine (P... more ... Ahmad Gunny Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies A Gazetteer of Buildings in Muslim Palestine (Part 1) By ANDREW PETERSEN (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), 340 pp. Price HB £99.00. ISBN 0197270115. ... Ruba Kana'an Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies ...
... Titre du document / Document title. The architecture of al-Qasr on the Kerak Plateau: an essa... more ... Titre du document / Document title. The architecture of al-Qasr on the Kerak Plateau: an essay in the chronology of vernacular architecture. Auteur(s) / Author(s). RUBA KANA'AN ; MCQUITTY A. ; Résumé / Abstract. ... Islam. ; Jordan. ; Century 20 AD. ; Architecture. ; Village. ; Typology ...
... 189-204 Two Ottoman Sabils in Jaffa (c. 1810-1815): an Architectural and Epigraphic AnalysisR... more ... 189-204 Two Ottoman Sabils in Jaffa (c. 1810-1815): an Architectural and Epigraphic AnalysisRuba Kana'an The Oriental Institute, Oxford, OXl 2LE, England This article discusses two sabils built in Jaffa during the second decade of the nineteenth century. ...
... akin to what Susan Slyomovics in The Object of Memory: Arab and Jew Narrate the Palestinian V... more ... akin to what Susan Slyomovics in The Object of Memory: Arab and Jew Narrate the Palestinian Village (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998) calls a “folk map” that reflects “notions, ideas, and opinions about the details of the past” (p. 7). Like all folk maps, Hoffman's depiction ...
The Bobrinski bucket, made in Herat in 599/1163, is one of the most iconic metalwork objects stud... more The Bobrinski bucket, made in Herat in 599/1163, is one of the most iconic metalwork objects studied by historians of Islamic art. To date, art historical scholarship on the bucket has focused on interpreting its decorative programme and identifying the decorator, Mas'ud ibn Ahmad, whose name is inscribed on the bucket, as the 'artist' who had the intellectual property of the design and its application. In this essay, I investigate the meaning of signatures left by 'artists' by examining the range of possible relationships between four men whose names appear in the dedication inscription of the Bobrinski bucket. The legal writings of Hanafī jurists from Khurasan and Transoxiana, including al-Sarakhsī (d. ca. 1090), provide an important, and hitherto unexplored, source for understanding the legal rights and responsibilities of the different parties involved in the production of a metalwork object from conception to final product, including the stages of commission...
The discussion includes a synthesis of online resources by Christiane Gruber (University of Michi... more The discussion includes a synthesis of online resources by Christiane Gruber (University of Michigan), an exploration of museum online collections of Islamic art by Ruba Kana'an (University of Toronto, Mississauga), and an overview of Archnet by Michael Toler and Matt Saba (Archnet/MIT).
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Conversation with Marcus Milwright, AHVS Chair
Sacred Engagements: Religion And Ritual In The Museum. CAA, February 10-13, 2021
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