@Book{1767213972, author="{Biennial Hamad bin Khalifa Symposium on Islamic Art and Culture 8 2019 Dawḥah, Qatar}", editor="Dalal, Radha and Roberts, Sean and Sokoly, Jochen", title="seas and the mobility of Islamic art", year="2021", address="New Haven", keywords="Islamic art; Art and society; Islamic civilization; Ocean and civilization; Conference papers and proceedings", abstract="``The seas have long served as both connective tissue for and barriers between intellectual, social, and artistic traditions. Nowhere is this dual role more evident than within the visual and material cultures of the Islamic world. This remarkable new book brings together an international group of scholars and curators whose contributions address seafaring mobility's profound effect on Islamic art. Their case studies range across the globe and span a period from Islam's 1st century to today. Contributors examine the roles of importation and migration, travel, diplomacy, and gift giving in driving artistic innovation and changing the social, political, and religious institutions of an increasingly diverse Islamic world. Taken together, these chapters embody a distinctive holistic approach, pulling an exceptional diversity of voices and topics into productive dialogue''--", note="edited by Radha Dalal, Sean Roberts, and Jochen Sokoly", note="``The 8th Biennial Hamad bin Khalifa Symposium of Islamic Art held at Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts in Qatar (VCUarts Qatar) in November 2019''--Page 7", isbn="9780300256888", language="English" }