Rivers of Paradise: Water in Islamic Art and CultureSheila Blair, Jonathan M. Bloom For millennia the collection, distribution, and symbolism of water have played pivotal roles in the lands where Islam has flourished. This book is the first to address this important subject.
A diverse spectrum of scholars covers a wide range of topics: from the revelation of Islam in the 7th century to today’s conservation and development issues, from watering oases in the Moroccan desert to the flooded plains of Bengal. Copiously illustrated with beautiful color photographs and newly drawn plans and maps, this book will provoke readers to appreciate and acknowledge the essential, if often invisible and transitory, roles that water played in the arts of the Islamic lands and beyond. |
Contents
Foreword | |
Gardens beneath which Rivers Flow 27 | |
Control and Abandon 59 | |
Copyright | |
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