edinburgh university press apr 2018 (18 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This workbook guides students through 12 problems on the establishment of genetic relationship among languages, 24 problems on sound change, 35 problems on phonological reconstruction, 10 problems on internal reconstruction, and 20 problems on subgrouping.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Aesthetics, Ethics and Trauma in the Cinema of Pedro AlmodóvarBy Julián Daniel Gutiérrez-AlbillaOne of Spain's most celebrated directors, Pedro Almodóvar has won international recognition for his dark comedy-dramas like Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, All About My Mother and Volver. Conventionally seen as an 'apolitical' or 'ahistorical' body of work, this innovative book instead reconceptualises Almodóvar's films as theoretical and political resources, and examines a neglected aspect of his cinema: its engagement with the traumatic past, with subjective and collective memory, and with the ethical and political meanings that result from this engagement. Departing from a standard auteurist approach to the director, Julián Daniel Gutiérrez-Albilla uses close readings of Almodóvar's films from the 1990s and 2000s, including Bad Education and The Skin I Live In, to explore how his cinema mourns and witnesses the traces of trauma, and to reframe recent arguments about the recuperation of historical memory. Drawing on theoretical approaches from trauma studies, psychoanalysis, philosophy, film studies and visual studies, this book suggests that Almodovar's work proposes an ethical model that is based on our compassionate relations to others, and that envisions a world co-inhabited by plurality and difference.Julián Daniel Gutiérrez-Albilla is Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, Comparative Literature and Gender Studies at the University of Southern California.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Isfahan and its PalacesStatecraft, Shi`ism and the Architecture of Conviviality in Early Modern IranSussan BabaieWinner of the 2009 Houshang Pourshariati Iranian Studies Book Award'Courses on Islamic art, history, and culture will find this study an important contribution on the increasingly important land of Iran. . provide(s) important insights into the over-five hundred year evolution of Twelver Shi'i Islam as the 'official' variety of Perso-Iranian Islam.'John Renard, Religion and the ArtsThis beautifully illustrated history of Safavid Isfahan (1501-1722) explores the architectural and urban forms and networks of socio-cultural action that reflected a distinctly early-modern and Perso-Shi'i practice of kingship.An immense building campaign, initiated in 1590-91, transformed Isfahan from a provincial, medieval, and largely Sunni city into an urban-centered representation of the first Imami Shi'i empire in the history of Islam. The historical process of Shi'ification of Safavid Iran and the deployment of the arts in situating the shifts in the politico-religious agenda of the imperial household informs Sussan Babaie's study of palatial architecture and urban environments of Isfahan and the earlier capitals of Tabriz and Qazvin.Babaie argues that since the Safavid claim presumed the inheritance both of the charisma of the Shi'i Imams and of the aura of royal splendor integral to ancient Persian notions of kingship, a ceremonial regime was gradually devised in which access and proximity to the shah assumed the contours of an institutionalized form of feasting. Talar-palaces, a new typology in Islamic palatial designs, and the urban-spatial articulation of access and proximity are the architectural anchors of this argument. Cast in the comparative light of urban spaces and palace complexes elsewhere and earlier-in the Timurid, Ottoman, and Mughal realms as well as in the early modern European capitals-Safavid Isfahan emerges as the epitome of a new architectural-urban paradigm in the early modern age.Includes 24 colour and 60 b+w illustrations.Sussan Babaie is Reader in the Arts of Iran and Islam at The Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London. She is co-author of Slaves of the Shah: New Elites of Safavid Iran (2004) and Persian Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1989).

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Art Series Editor: Robert Hillenbrand This series offers readers easy access to the most up-to-date research across the whole range of Islamic art, representing various parts of the Islamic world, media and approaches. Books in the series are academic monographs of intellectual distinction that mark a significant advance in the field. Islamic Chinoiserie The Art of Mongol Iran Yuka Kadoi The Mongol invasion in the thirteenth century marked a new phase in the development of Islamic art. Trans-Eurasian exchanges of goods, people and ideas were encouraged on a large scale under the auspices of the Pax Mongolica. With the fascination of portable objects brought from China and Central Asia, a distinctive, hitherto unknown style - Islamic chinoiserie - was born in the art of Iran. This illustrated book offers a fascinating glimpse into the artistic interaction between Iran and China under the Mongols. By using rich visual materials from various media of decorative and pictorial arts - textiles, ceramics, metalwork and manuscript painting - the book illustrates the process of adoption and adaptation of Chinese themes in the art of Mongol-ruled Iran in a visually compelling way. The observation of this unique artistic phenomenon serves to promote the understanding of the artistic diversity of Islamic art in the Middle Ages. Key features: \*Covers various media of decorative and pictorial arts from Iran, Central Asia and China \*Deals with a diverse range of issues related to the East-West artistic relationship in the Middle Ages \*Includes in-depth studies of style, technique and iconography in Iranian art under the Mongols Yuka Kadoi, PhD, is a historian of Islamic and Asian art. She is the author and editor of numerous publications, including Persian Art: Image-making in Eurasia (EUP, 2017). 'Yuka Kadoi accomplishes her goals fully, thereby providing a reliable and beautifully produced study against which all later studies of the subject will be measured.' Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 'An immensely important and deeply impressive study of the collaborative epoch of Chinese and Persian artwork and will doubtless remain the definitive work on this unique period in world history for some time to come.' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies Winner of Honourable Mention, Saidi-Sirjani Book Award 2008-9, International Society for Iranian Studies.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'This pioneering book opens up an entirely new field for scholars of both China and the Islamic world: the history of Chinese mosques.[it] is unique because its clear prose and copious illustrations portray the physical spaces within which Chinese Muslims operated.' Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 'This well-illustrated book is a most welcome addition to art and architectural history studies. There is absolutely no other book in English or any European language that covers China's mosques. Further, in addition to being unique, it is lucidly written, shedding light on a topic that might otherwise seem bewildering to the non-Islamic, non-China specialist. This volume will remain the standard work on Chinese mosques well into the future.' Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians Explains how the worship requirements of the mosque and the Chinese architectural system converged What happens when a monotheistic, foreign religion needs a space in which to worship in China, a civilisation with a building tradition that has been largely unchanged for several millennia The story of this extraordinary convergence begins in the 7th century and continues under the Chinese rule of Song and Ming, and the non-Chinese rule of the Mongols and Manchus, each with a different political and religious agenda. The author shows that mosques, and ultimately Islam, have survived in China because the Chinese architectural system, though often unchanging, is adaptable: it can accommodate the religious requirements of Buddhism, Daoism, Confucianism, and Islam. Key Features: - Includes case studies of China's most important surviving mosques, including approximately 70 premodern mosques, the tourist mosques in Xi'an and Beijing, and the Uyghur mosques in Kashgar - Aims to build an understanding of the mosque at the most fundamental level, asking what is really necessary for Muslim worship space - Presents Chinese architecture as uniquely uniform in appearance and uniquely adaptable to something as foreign as Islam - Explores the social and political aspects of China's architectural system, and the challenges faced by religious construction in premodern and contemporary Asia. Nancy S. Steinhardt is Professor of East Asian Art and Curator of Chinese Art at the University of Pennsylvania. She is author or co-author of numerous books including, most recently, Chinese Architecture and the Beaux-Arts (2011) and Chinese Architecture in an Age of Turmoil, 200-600 (2014).

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This comprehensive reference volume covers every country in North Africa and West Asia, offering reliable demographic information and original interpretative essays by indigenous scholars and practitioners.