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Islamic Art and Archaeology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2016

Oleg Grabar
Oleg Grabar*
Affiliation:
University of Michigan
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Extract

Like most other fields, the study of Islamic art is both the beneficiary and the victim of its own past. Like many fields, it is affected in various more or less successful ways by developments and needs in related areas of learning. Like all fields, it is tied to the quality and idiosyncrasies of the men who practice it. Inasmuch as bibliographical surveys according to traditional lines of techniques and periods are available (Pearson, Index Islamicus with supplements, London, 1958, 1962, 1968; especially K.A.C. Creswell, A Bibliography of the Architecture, Arts and Crafts of Islam, Cairo, 1961) and current works are listed with a fair degree of completeness in the yearly Abstracta Islamica published by the Revue des Etudes Islamiques, my concern in this paper will be to review the state of the field, the ways in which one can find out about it, and the work being done according to three major categories: traditional techniques and documentation; new problems and solutions; light and dark areas of research.

Type
Research Article
Information
Review of Middle East Studies , Volume 2 , Issue 3 , October 1968 , pp. 4 - 17
Copyright
Copyright © Middle East Studies Association of North America 1968

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References

This is the second in the series of “state of the art” articles which will continue to appear in the Bulletin. The previous article by Professor Charles Issawi concerned “Economic History of the Middle East to 1914.” The Association is grateful to prominent members of their disciplines for contributing these analyses of the state of knowledge on their area.