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Islamic Art & Architecture
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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 in two parts. The first focuses on the 638 Arabic, Persian and Indian seals in the British Museum 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 seals, seal engravers, the forgery of seals and the importance of the stones used are described. The ...
Paperback. Price US$80.00
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 2011)
Hardback. Not yet published - advance orders taken. Price US$180.00
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. Price US$180.00
Ornament and Amulet: Rings of the Islamic Lands
by Marian Wenzel
The remarkable material presented in this volume - 618 rings from the Islamic lands and beyond - has provided a rare opportunity to survey the history of this form, ranging from two Hellenistic glass rings of the 2nd or 1st century BC to a signet ring made in India in 1920.
Rings with metal bodies predominated in all periods and an outstanding variety in gold filigree, made in Fatimid Egypt in the 10th and 11th centuries, is represented ...
Hardback. Price US$180.00
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 ...
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 US$60.00
Beiträge zur islamischen Kunst und Archäologie: Jahrbuch der Ernst-Herzfeld-Gesellschaft e.V. Band 2
edited by Markus Ritter and Lorenz Korn
This volume, published by the Ernst Herzfeld Society, presents contributions from the European colloquies in Vienna in 2007 and in Bamberg in 2008, which were organised on behalf of the Society. Subjects include architecture and archaeology as well as painting, textile arts, minor and applied arts. They cover the lands from Spain to Iran and India, and back to Europe; in chronology, they range from the Early Islamic period to the 20th century. ...
Hardback. Price US$117.00
Die Pflanzlichen Dekorelemente der Elfenbeinskulpturen des Kalifats von Córdoba (Mitte 10. bis Anfang 11. Jahrhundert)
by Christian Ewert
English summary: The life work of the architect and art historian Christian Ewert was the investigation and analysis of west Islamic architectural adornment, from its flowering in the 10th Century through to the 12th Century. His last monograph, completed shortly before his death, expands our perspective by examining a closely related art form: Spanish-Islamic ivory sculptures. With great subtlety, and his usual meticulousness, the author ...
Hardback. Price US$150.00
The Decorated Word: Qur'ans of the 17th to 19th Centuries AD: Part Two
by Manijeh Bayani, J M Rogers and Tim Stanley
This, the second of two volumes devoted to Qur'an manuscripts produced in the period after 1600, covers the Ottoman Empire and the 19th century in Iran. It contains original, groundbreaking essays and entries on some 70 fine examples, revealing the period to be one of sumptuous brilliance and intellectual innovation.
300p, col illus. (Khalili Collections 2009)
Hardback. Price US$180.00
Shah Abbas: The Remaking of Iran
by Sheila R. Canby
Shah 'Abbas I was one of Iran's most influential leaders. Combining his ruthless ambition with a desire for stability, he left a far-reaching mark on the society and artistic heritage of Iran, renovating the country's spectacular shrines and transforming its trading relations with the rest of the world. This richly illustrated book brings together an amazing array of treasures that were given to Iran's shrines during Shah 'Abbas's reign. It ...
Paperback. Price US$45.00
Hardback. Price US$75.00
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