Papers by Marcus Milwright
Journal of Islamic Studies, Sep 25, 2017
Journal of Islamic Studies, Jan 7, 2017
Edinburgh University Press eBooks, May 17, 2021
Making Modernity in the Islamic Mediterranean
The Iconography of Islamic Art
Art and Material Culture in the Byzantine and Islamic Worlds, 2021
Levant, 1992
... Published by Maney Publishing (c) The Council for British Research in the Levant BERNIE ET AL... more ... Published by Maney Publishing (c) The Council for British Research in the Levant BERNIE ET AL. An Architectural Survey of Muslim Buildings in Tiberias 105 ..... Figure 13. Sitt Sukaina, S elevation. revitalised it, rebuilding the city walls and constructing a central mosque. ...
A Companion to Islamic Art and Architecture, 2017
Chase Robinson, ed., A Medieval Islamic City reconsidered: An interdisciplinary Approach to Samarra, Oxford Studies in Islamic Art 14. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 79-109 , 2001
A speculative study looking at the materials, labour and fuel required to build and ornament pala... more A speculative study looking at the materials, labour and fuel required to build and ornament palaces in Abbasid Samarra.
Melia Belli Bose, ed., Intersections: Visual Cultures of Islamic Cosmopolitanism, David A. Cofrin Asian Art Manuscript Series. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2021
Robert Hillenbrand, ed., The Making of Islamic Art: Studies in Honour of Sheila Blair and Jonathan Bloom, Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Art. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Presss, 2021
Abu Sa'id's maid was forbidden to throw out the rubbish. Instead, she had to collect it from all ... more Abu Sa'id's maid was forbidden to throw out the rubbish. Instead, she had to collect it from all the apartments in the house and deposit it with his. Every so often, he would sit down, have her fetch basket-loads of garbage, and, one by one, sift through them. It is obvious what happened to any odd dirhams, a purse with a few dinars or small change and pieces of jewellery he came across. Tufts of wool and strips of cloth were sold, once enough had been collected, to saddle-cloth makers. Rags were bought by the porcelain and china-ware merchants. Pomegranate peel fetched a price from the dyers and tanners and broken glass could be sold to the glass-blowers. Date stones were hawked to gazelle breeders and peach stones to nurseries. Nails and bits of metal were peddled to the blacksmiths and papyrus scraps went to the scroll makers. The pack-saddlers were the market for odd pieces of wood. Paper was used to seal jars, bones became kindling and broken pottery was resettled in new kilns. Lumps of brick and mortar were set aside for building. Pitch would be bought by the tar merchant. The rubbish basket was then shaken out and anything left over was burned in the stove. If there was enough clean clay and he was of a mind to make bricks for his own use or for sale then, in order to save on water, Abu Sa'id demanded that everyone in the building wash and shower over the clay and, when it was moist enough, had it moulded into a brick. 'The stranger to my canny ways can lay no claim to thrift', Abu Sa'id was fond of saying. 1 This entertaining account comes from the Kitab al-Bukhala' (Book of Misers) by the famous Iraqi satirist, al-Jahiz (d. 868-9). The author layers detail upon detail to the point of absurdity, and yet, for the humour to succeed, the description of Abu Sa'id's activities has to contain a kernel of truth. The society in which al-Jahiz lived did indeed find ways to reuse broken objects, scraps of textile and
Mette Bjerregaard Mortensen, Guillaume Dye, Isaac Oliver, and Tommaso Tesei, eds, The study of Islamic Origins: New Perspectives and Contexts, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam – Tension, Transmission, and Transformation 15. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021, 2021
Mariam Rosser-Owen, ed., special issue of the Journal of Modern Crafts 13.1 , 2020
The article considers the ways in which traditional manual crafts in Egypt and Syria adapted to t... more The article considers the ways in which traditional manual crafts in Egypt and Syria adapted to the challenges of the importation of mass-produced goods from Europe and changes in taste among local and foreign purchasers. While some crafts did not prosper in this environment, the evidence from surviving objects and primary sources indicates high levels of experimentation, including the creative use of new materials and technologies. The main part of the article presents a case study concerning four undated inlaid brass stands imitating a Mamluk original made for the sultan al-Nasir Muhammad ibn Qalawun in 1327-28. This stand was first exhibited in 1881, and was reproduced in several publications prior to 1900. The study concentrates on the treatment of the inlaid epigraphy, establishing formal differences between the prototype and the copies, as well as pointing out significant divergences between the copies themselves. The latter part of the case study considers the dissemination of specific motifs from the stand of al-Nasir Muhammad onto other types of Mamluk revival metalwork, such as boxes
Evanthia Baboula and Leslie Jessop, eds, Art and Material Culture in the Byzantine and Islamic Worlds: Essays in Honour of Erica Cruikshank Dodd, 2021
Levant, 2014
This article presents a detailed analysis of an inlaid brass pyxis produced in Damascus in the se... more This article presents a detailed analysis of an inlaid brass pyxis produced in Damascus in the second decade of the 20th century. The object is made from the lower sections of two artillery shell casings, one of which carries markings of the German munitions factory where it was originally manufactured. This unusual object is contextualized within the larger phenomena of the 'Mamluk Revival' style in Europe and the Islamic world and of the 'Trench Art' made during and after World War I.
Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 2019
Sir Banister Fletcher’s Global History of Architecture, 2019
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