Book contents
- Empires of Faith in Late Antiquity
- Empires of Faith in Late Antiquity
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- Part I The Imperial Context
- Part II After Imperialism: Orientalism and its Resistances
- 8 The Road from Decadence: Agendas and Personal Histories in the Study of Early Islamic Art
- 9 Connecting Art and Zoroastrianism in Sasanian Studies
- 10 ‘Hindu’ Art and the Primordial Śiva
- Part III Post-Colonialist, Old Colonialist and Nationalist Fantasies
- Bibliography
- Index of Names
- Index of Subjects
8 - The Road from Decadence: Agendas and Personal Histories in the Study of Early Islamic Art
from Part II - After Imperialism: Orientalism and its Resistances
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 February 2020
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Book contents
- Empires of Faith in Late Antiquity
- Empires of Faith in Late Antiquity
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- Part I The Imperial Context
- Part II After Imperialism: Orientalism and its Resistances
- 8 The Road from Decadence: Agendas and Personal Histories in the Study of Early Islamic Art
- 9 Connecting Art and Zoroastrianism in Sasanian Studies
- 10 ‘Hindu’ Art and the Primordial Śiva
- Part III Post-Colonialist, Old Colonialist and Nationalist Fantasies
- Bibliography
- Index of Names
- Index of Subjects
Summary
Discussions of Islamic art used to see it as developing from the passive adoption of Roman and Sasanian features.2 This was especially the case in scholarship on the so-called Umayyad desert-castles in the early twentieth century.3 As a result, this period of Islamic art was perceived as an eclectic mixture of Eastern and Western motifs with little symbolic content.4
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- Empires of Faith in Late AntiquityHistories of Art and Religion from India to Ireland, pp. 189 - 222Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020