Image making in Byzantium, Sasanian Persia, and the early Muslim world / by Anthony Cutler.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Visual communities in Byzantium and medieval Islam -- Silver across the Euphrates: forms of exchange between Sasanian Persia and the late Roman empire -- Constantinople and Córdoba: cultural exchange and cultural difference in the ninth and tenth centuries -- Ivory working in Umayyad Córdoba: techniques and implications -- A Christian ewer with Islamic imagery and the question of Arab Gastarbeiter in Byzantium -- The image of the word in Byzantium and Islam: an essay in art historical geodesy -- Gifts and gift exchanges as aspects of the Byzantine, Arab, and related economies -- Everywhere and nowhere: the invisible Muslim and Christian self-fashioning in the culture of Outremer -- The emperor's old clothes: actual and virtual vesting and the transmission of power in Byzantium and Islam -- The parallel universes of Arab and Byzantine art (with special reference to the Fatimid era) -- Tiles and tribulations: a community of clay across Byzantium and its adversaries -- Imagination and documentation: eagle silks in Byzantium, the Latin West and 'Abbāsid Baghdad -- Reuse of use? Theoretical and practical attitudes toward objects in the early Middle Ages.es.