Qusayr 'Amra : Art and the Umayyad Elite in Late Antique Syria
by
Garth Fowden
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Transformation of the Classical Heritage
ISBN-10
0520236653
ISBN-13
9780520236653
Publisher
University of California Press
Imprint
University of California Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 20th, 2004
Print length
424 Pages
Weight
762 grams
Dimensions
16.00 x 23.70 x 3.80 cms
Product Classification:
History
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From the stony desolation of Jordan's desert, it is but a step through a doorway into the bath house of the Qusayr 'Amra hunting lodge. Inside, multicolored frescoes depict scenes from courtly life and the hunt, along with musicians, dancing girls, and naked bathing women. The traveler is transported to the luxurious and erotic world of a mid-eighth-century Muslim Arab prince. For scholars, though, Qusayr 'Amra, probably painted in the 730s or 740s, has proved a mirage, its concreteness dissolved by doubts about date, patron, and meaning. This is the first book-length contextualization of the mysterious monument through a compelling analysis of its iconography and of the literary sources for the Umayyad period. It illuminates not only the way of life of the early Muslim elite but also the long afterglow of late antique Syria.
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