id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_ni7xxyjxczg7riydjuyqkfa464 Avinoam Shalem What do we mean when we say "Islamic art"? A plea for a critical rewriting of the history of the arts of Islam 2012 18 .pdf application/pdf 11318 683 59 the construction of the field of Islamic art history within the larger discipline of writings on the history of Islamic art concerns the creation of ʿAbbasid Baghdad by approach of Islamic art historians to their own field were addressed by the present author in a lecture field, and for the very rewriting of the history of Islamic art, would seem essential. field of art history stems from the complexity of the term 'Islamic'. 17 Oleg Grabar, The Formation of Islamic Art, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1973, 1-18; the Sultan: The Arts of Giving at the Islamic Courts, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011. discuss the history of the thesis of unity in Islamic art? This means that the whole field of Islamic art history is now deconstructed, as if in a claiming modernity as a Western phenomenon, art histories have defined Islamic art ./cache/work_ni7xxyjxczg7riydjuyqkfa464.pdf ./txt/work_ni7xxyjxczg7riydjuyqkfa464.txt