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The Art of Orientation explores the mosque through 125 artefacts from across the Islamic world. It employs an original and contemporary approach by incorporating essays by leading Arab and international authors, which provide a fresh interpretation of the cultural history behind the shown objects by interweaving concepts, histories and ideas.
Idries Trevathan and Mona
AlJalhami are curators of Islamic art at the King
Abdulaziz Center for World Culture (Ithra) in Dhahran Saudi Arabia.
They are responsible for bringing together the exhibition Shatr
Almasjid: The Art of Orientation, which this book
accompanies. Murdo MacLeod is an editorial photographer
based in Scotland. Mona Mansour is an
Arab-American playwright based in New York
“The book should fill a real gap in contextual information,
explaining the accoutrements of mosques and also their wide range
of functions, as schools, hospitals, treasuries.”
*The Art Newspaper*
"As the subtitle, An Exploration of the Mosque through Objects,
suggests, the volume proposes to re-examine the mosque through a
close reading of the artistic and social histories of the objects
that inhabited its spaces, examining the history and development of
the mosque through these artifacts rather than through its
architecture. To this end, the editors have compiled a series of
essays by scholars, architects, and artists that contextualize a
selection of the exhibited artifacts."
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