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Islamic art Africa and Central Asia
Title
Islamic art [electronic resource (video)] : Africa and Central Asia / Channel Four (Great Britain)
Published
New York, N.Y. : Infobase, [2007], c2007.
Physical Description
1 streaming video file (45 min.) : sd., col., digital file.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on Dec. 05, 2007.
Films on Demand is distributed by Infobase for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.
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Summary
Continuing his trek across the Muslim world, art scholar Waldemar Januszczak introduces viewers to masterworks in Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia-from the gigantic and surreal mud mosques of Mali; to a rare, 10th-century Egyptian ewer carved out of a single piece of rock crystal; to the inspired urban planning of the ancient city of Isfahan in Iran; to the stunning architecture of Uzbekistan's Samarquand. Januszczak shares his knowledge of the Sunni-Shiite schism and its artistic implications, the Fatimid influence evident in Cairo's Al-Azhar mosque, and the vast debt which Gothic architecture owes to the arches and filigrees of medieval Islamic building design.
Variant and related titles
Africa and Central Asia
Films on demand.
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Originally produced: Channel Four (Great Britain), 2007
Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 20, 2019
Series
Paradise Found: Discovering Islamic Art
System details note
Mode of access: Internet.
System requirements: FOD playback platform.
Audience
11 & up.
Contents
Islamic Art and the Historical Roots of Timurid Architecture (4:20)
Islamic Art: Timurid Domes and Minarets (3:11)
Destruction of Islamic Art and Architecture in Uzbekistan (2:21)
Islamic Minarets and Domes in Istanbul (3:22)
Islamic Treasures of the Ottoman Empire (2:00)
The Ottoman Domes of Minar Sinan's Islamic Mosques (2:58)
Turkish Baths of the Ottoman Empire (1:35)
Islamic Tile Work In Istanbul (4:14)
Islamic Tile Work: Creating Iznic Tiles Today (2:45)
Islam in Mali: The Great Mosque of Djenne (2:16)
African Architecture of the Great Mosque of Djenne (3:00)
Re-plastering Ceremonies at Africa's Mud Mosques (1:53)
Islamic Art and Architecture from Mali to Mughal India (3:06)
Legend of the Taj Mahal (1:02)
Treasures of the Taj Mahal: An Emerald Box (2:08)
Koranic Designs for Paradise on Earth (2:41)
Videorecording number
37630s Infobase
37638 Infobase
Subjects
Genre/Form
Educational films.
Internet videos.
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Channel Four (Great Britain)
Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)
Infobase.
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