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Islamic Art & Architecture

Arabic and Persian Seals and Amulets in the British Museum
by Venetia Porter, with special assistance from Robert Hoyland and Alexander Morton, contributions by Shailendra Bhandare, and scientific analysis by Janet Ambers, Sylvia Humphrey, Nigel Meeks, and Margaret Sax
This catalogue is the first on the outstanding collection of Arabic and Persian seals and amulets in the British Museum, by a specialist in the field.

The first part focuses on the 638 Arabic, Persian and Indian seals covering material from the 8th to the 20th century. The introduction covers seal practice in different periods and levels of society; the role of the seal and the "alama" or motto, the use of figural representation on the ...
Paperback. Price GB £40.00

Textiles, Carpets and Costumes
by Michael Franses and others
A catalogue of the 300 textiles, carpets and costumes showing the splendour and diversity of textiles art from the Islamic lands. (Khalili Islamic Collections, Vol 14, forthcoming)
Hardback. Not yet published - advance orders taken. Price GB £89.00

Glass: From Sasanian Antecedents to European Imitations
by Sidney M. Goldstein, with contributions by Melanie Gibson, Jens Kroeger, and J.M. Rogers
Catalogue of more than 300 examples of pre-Islamic and Islamic glass objects that are held in the Khalili Collection. The objects are grouped according to techniques of manufacture and decoration, and chronologically; the catalogue illustrating the development of glass making technology from its Byzantine and Sasanian beginnings into the nineteenth and twentieth centuries when European makers found new inspiration in Islamic forms. Mould formed ...
Hardback. Publisher's Price GB £135.00, Our Price GB £89.00

Ornament and Amulet: Rings of the Islamic Lands
by Marian Wenzel
A fully illustrated catalogue of 618 rings from the Islamic lands and beyond, ranging in date from the 1st century to the 20th. 304p. (1993)
Hardback. Publisher's Price GB £135.00, Our Price GB £89.00

Safavid Art and Architecture
edited by Sheila R Canby
The era of Safavid rule (1501-1722) was a time of dynamic religious and political development in Iran, when all the arts attained new heights of brilliance and opulence, and architecture flourished with the growth of cities. This volume publishes 19 papers given at a conference at The British Museum in 1998. Representing the most recent work of the foremost scholars in the field, they deal with aspects of Safavid painting and the conservation of ...
Paperback. Price GB £14.95

Monuments of Merv: Traditional Buildings of the Karakum
by Georgina Hermann and Hugh Kennedy
The survival of the mudbrick monuments of Merv against all the odds is little short of a miracle. Mudbrick and rammed earth are not building materials famed for their longevity, rather for their economy. However, some buildings of the Merv oasis in the Karakum desert in Turkmenistan have survived for more than seven centuries and some, unbelievably, for a millennium. Mud was the building material of choice, wonderfully flexible and a superb ...
Hardback. Price GB £24.95

Gardens, Landscape and Vision in the Palaces of Islamic Spain
by D Fairchild Ruggles
Ruggles' highly attractive study presents the evolving symbolism of Islamic palace-gardens from the 8th to the 15th centuries. She challenges the traditional view that the gardens, with their cultivated flower beds and water channels, were primarily intended as earthly reflections of paradise. The book argues that the gardens were designed to symbolically represent the authority and power of the Caliph, for whom the gardens were built. Chapters ...
Paperback. Price GB £21.95

Art and Architecture of Twelver Shi'ism
by James W. Allan
Twelver Shi'ism is the dominant faith in southern Iraq and Iran and it has had a major historical role also in India, in particular in the Deccan and in Lucknow, but its distinctive art and architecture have received little attention and seldom appear in books on the arts of the Islamic World. This book attempts to correct this situation. It looks first at the history of the great Shi'i shrines of Iran and Iraq, a subject almost completely ...
Hardback. Price GB £30.00

Shayzar I: The Fortification of the Citadel
by Cristina Tonghini
On the basis of a detailed analysis of the archaeological evidence, and of the study of the written documentation available, the book examines the origins and the development of the fortification of Shayzar in Central Syria, especially in relation to the most crucial period as regard as the building of the citadel, i.e., the span of time that stretches from the 10th to the 13th centuries; it also discusses the development of building techniques ...
Hardback. Price GB £210.00

Arts of Islam: Treasures from the Khalili Collection
by J.M. Rogers
This magnificent publication presents nearly 500 masterpieces from the Khalili Collection, the largest and finest privately owned collection of Islamic art in the world. All specially photographed for this book, these precious objects were created for sultans, princes and merchants between the 7th and early 20th centuries, and include rare illustrated manuscripts and Qurans, exquisite glass, ceramics and jewelry, magnificent textiles, carpets and ...
Hardback. Publisher's Price GB £40.00, Our Price GB £19.95