Facts and Artefacts -- Art in the Islamic World: Festschrift for Jens Kroeger on His 65th Birthday Book

Introduction and Acknowledgements     ix
Tabula Gratulatoria     XI
Note on Transliteration     XIII
Jens Kroger: an Academic Profile     XV
Jens Kroger's List of Publications     XIX
Glass, Rock Crystal and Glyptic Art
What the Basket Contained: Some Datable Glass Bottles from the Eastern Islamic World   Kjeld von Folsach     3
Fatimid or not Fatimid? That is the Question: Some Notes on Two Dishes in the Treasury of San Marco in Venice   Ernst J. Grube     13
An Emerald of Glass. The Emerald of Charlemagne at Mittelzell, Reichenau   Ingeborg Krueger     21
The Sacrifice of Isaac Revisited: Additional Observations on a Theme in Sasanian Glyptic Art   Judith A. Lerner     39
From San Marco to South Arabia: Observations on Sasanian Cut Glass   St John Simpson     59
Three Rock Crystal Bottles in Old Castile (Spain)   Fernando Valdes     89
Another Gilt Glass Bottle   Oliver Watson     105
An Unusual Fragment of Ayyubid Glass   David Whitehouse     121
Metal and Ivory
Analysing a Pictorial Narrative-The Aquamanile in the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg   Elizabeth S. Ettinghausen     129
Late Ottoman Door Knockers from Syria   Stefan Heidemann     153
A Mirror Disc with Inscriptions   Gisela Helmecke     185
The "Parthian" Bronze Bust in the Berlin Museum of Islamic Art and Parthian-Sasanian Aristocratic Headgear   Dietrich Huff     205
From Individual Manufacturing to Mass Production: Notes on the Aesthetic of the Islamic Traded Ivories of the Crusader Era   Avinoam Shalem     231
On the Long Journey from East to West-Dragons from Tibet   Friedrich Spuhler     251
Plugging the Gap: Mamluk Export Metalwork 1375-1475   Rachel Ward     263
The Illustrated Page
Joseph's Garments: Remarks on Colour Symbolism in Persian Manuscripts   Eva Baer     287
Ibrahim Ibn Adham-Darling of the Angels   Almut v. Gladiss     305
The Berlin Indian World Map   Elke Niewohner-Eberhard     313
Behind the Picture: The Other Sides of the Boston-New York Rest After the Hunt   Eleanor Sims     333
Islamic Art and the West
Oriental Themes in the Work of Moritz von Schwind   Silke Bettermann     345
The Islamic-Oriental Carpet in Giotto's Fresco Christmas Mass at Greccio in Assisi   Werner Bruggemann     373
Louis Comfort Tiffany's Journey to North Africa in 1870 and the Influence of Islamic Art on his Work   Annette Hagedorn      395
Architecture and Architectural Decoration
Notes on the Ornamentation of the Domes in Iranian Sacred Buildings   Barbara Finster     419
The Development of Stucco Decoration in Northern Syria of the 8th and 9th Centuries and the Bevelled Style of Samarra   Claus-Peter Haase     439
Veh Ardashir and the Identification of the Ruins at al-Mada'in   Stefan R. Hauser     461
Index of Proper Names     489
Index of Places     492
Index of General Subjects and Terms     495