Qusayr 'Amra

Art and the Umayyad Elite in Late Antique Syria

By:

Garth Fowden

Format:

Hardback

Series:

Transformation of the Classical Heritage

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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.

Author Biography:

Garth Fowden is Research Professor at the Centre for Greek and Roman Antiquity, National Research Foundation in Athens. He is author of The Egyptian Hermes: A Historical Approach to the Late Pagan Mind (reprinted 1993) and Empire to Commonwealth: Consequences of Monotheism in Late Antiquity (1993).

Release date Australia

September 20th, 2004

Author

Garth Fowden

Series

Transformation of the Classical Heritage

Pages

424

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

60 b-w photographs, 11 line illustrations, 2 maps

Dimensions

152x229x36

ISBN-13

9780520236653

Product ID

1938430

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