Islam & the Middle East
The world of Islam from its seventh century beginnings expanding westwards to Spain and eastwards throughout the Near East to India and central Asia, covering art and architecture, history, archaeology, religion and philosophy
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Archaeology in the 'Land of Tells and Ruins': A History of Excavations in the Holy Land Inspired by the Photographs and Accounts of Leo Boer [Hardback]
Bart Wagemakers (Editor)
$98.95ISBN: 9781782972457
Published by : Oxbow Books
Recently, a travel account and 700 photographs came to light by the hand of Leo Boer, a former student of the École Biblique et Archéologique Française in Jerusalem who, at the age of 26 in 1953–4 visite... .... Learn More -
Studies in the Islamic Decorative Arts [Hardback]
Robert Hillenbrand (Author)
$300.00ISBN: 9781904597506
Published by : Pindar Press
Islamic artists channeled their energies not into easel painting and large-scale sculpture, but rather into what Western scholars, obeying a very different hierarchy of art forms, rather disparagingly termed the "decorative arts" or even "the m... .... Learn More -
Studies in the Decorative Arts of the Muslim World [Hardback]
Ernst Grube (Author)
$500.00ISBN: 9780907132790
Published by : Pindar Press
Although Ernst Grube has made the study of painting in the Muslim world a principal concern, he has also dealt with other aspects of Islamic art in some depth. Over the last three decades he has published a large number of studies dealing with spe... .... Learn More -
The World of the Tahawy Bedouin and their Purebred Arabian Horses [Hardback]
Bernd Radtke (Author); Kirsten Radtke (Author)
$49.99ISBN: 9780956708151
Published by : Medina Publishing
The Tahawy Bedouin have been famed breeders of pure-bred Arabian horses for centuries. Part of the great tribe of Banu Sulaym, they roamed the Nejd of the Arabian peninsula until a wave of tribal migration nearly a millennia ago t... .... Learn More -
Abbasid Studies IV [Hardback]
Monique Bernards (Editor)
$70.00ISBN: 9780906094983
Published by : Gibb Memorial Trust
Soon after their successful revolution in 750 AD, the Abbāsids supplanted the Umayyad dynasty, built the new city of Baghdad, Iraq which became the capital of the Islamic Empire. The civilization that the Abbāsids helped... .... Learn More -
Wings Over Arabia [Hardback]
Roger Harrison (Author)
$59.99ISBN: 9780956417077
Published by : Medina Publishing
On 2 June 2006, a team of three gliders, one chase plane, support crew and all-terrain vehicles gathered at a fiercely hot and dusty airfield 50 kilometres outside Riyadh, the capital city of Saudi Arabia. The pilots, two Saudi Pr... .... Learn More -
Georgio Scala and the Moorish Slaves: The Inquisition Malta 1598 [Hardback]
Dionisius A. Agius (Editor)
$60.00ISBN: 9789993274155
Published by : Midsea Books
Georgio Scala, a young man of humble origins, from Damiata, was captured on a trading vessel by the Knights of Malta in 1590 not far from his home town. He was enslaved in spite of his protestations that he was a Christian and so ... .... Learn More -
Discovering Islamic Art: A Childrens' Guide With Activity Sheets [Spiralbound]
Mary Beardwood (Author)
$19.95ISBN: 9781909339040
Published by : Medina Publishing
Since the 7th century, Islamic artists, artisans, architects and craftsmen have attempted in their work to reflect their beliefs and cultural values in the most beautiful way they can in every medium and material available to them... .... Learn More -
Libertinism in Medieval Muslim Society and Literature [Hardback]
Zoltan Szombathy (Author)
$80.00ISBN: 9780906094617
Published by : Gibb Memorial Trust
This book is about an aspect of mediaeval Arabic culture and literature known in Arabic as mujùn (roughly 'libertinism, licentiousness, frivolity, indecency, profligacy, shamelessness, impertinence', etc.), a concept that s... .... Learn More