Islamic World & Culture
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Islamic Glass in the Corning Museum, Volume One [Hardback]
David Whitehouse (Author)
Regular Price: £50.00
Special Price: £19.95
ISBN: 9781555953553
Published by : Hudson Hill Press
This hefty and beautifully produced catalogue presents 595 objects and fragments with scratch-engraved and wheel-cut ornament made in the Islamic world between the eighth and eleventh centuries. All are photographed in colour with... .... Learn More -
The Caliph's Splendor: Islam and the West in the Golden Age of Baghdad [Hardback]
Benson Bobrick (Author)
Regular Price: £20.00
Special Price: £7.95
ISBN: 9781416567622
Published by : Simon & Schuster
A popular study of the achievements of the Caliphate at its height under Harun al-Rashid. After a summary of the rise of Islam, Bobrick outlines the impact of Islamic scholarship in such fields as astronomy, medicine, and mathemat... .... Learn More -
In the Shadow of the Sword: the Battle for Global Empire and the End of the Ancient World [Paperback]
Tom Holland (Author)
Regular Price: £14.99
Special Price: £5.95
ISBN: 9781408700082
Published by : Little, Brown and Company
This gripping (and controversial) book recounts the momentous events of Late Antiquity, exploring the rise of Islam, the fall of Persia and the drastic shrinking of the Byzantine empire. In particular Holland explores the triumph ... .... Learn More -
The Knights of Islam: The Wars of the Mamluks [Hardback]
James Waterson (Author)
Regular Price: £19.99
Special Price: £7.95
ISBN: 9781853677342
Published by : Greenhill Books
This popular history looks at the Mamluks, from their origins as a warrior slave caste to their rise to control Egypt and their spectacular defeat of the Mongols at Ain Jalut, up to their final defeat and absorption into the Ottoman Empire in ... .... Learn More -
Siraf: History, Topography and Environment [Hardback]
Cameron A. Petrie (Author); David Whitehouse (Author); Donald Whitcomb (Author); T. J. Wilkinson (Author)
Regular Price: £38.00
Special Price: £12.95
ISBN: 9781842173947
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: British Institute of Persian Studies Monograph
Volume: 1
Between 1966 and 1973, the British Institute of Persian Studies conducted seven seasons of excavation and survey at Siraf, which was a major city on the Iranian shore of the Persian Gulf that played a leading role in the network of maritime tra... .... Learn More -
Christians and Moors in Spain. Vol 3: Arab sources [Paperback]
Charles Melville (Author); Ahmad Ubaydli (Author)
Regular Price: £15.00
Special Price: £3.95
ISBN: 9780856684500
Published by : Aris & Phillips
Series: A & P MIDDLE EAST STUDIES
The last two volumes in this series have looked at the confrontation between Christian and Moor in Medieval Spain exclusively from the Christian side.This book attemps to redress the balance by looking at many of the same incidents from the Mo... .... Learn More -
Studies in Islamic Art [Hardback]
Ralph Pinder-Wilson (Author)
Regular Price: £130.00
Special Price: £65.00
ISBN: 9780907132363
Published by : Pindar Press
This volume brings together twenty-four of Ralph Pinder-Wilson's studies on Islamic art, published over thirty years. These deal mainly with the decorative arts - lustre pottery, bronze, jade and glass - a field in which the author is an eminent a... .... Learn More -
Studies in Persian Art, Volume I [Hardback]
B. W. Robinson (Author)
Regular Price: £150.00
Special Price: £75.00
ISBN: 9780907132431
Published by : Pindar Press
Over the last forty years, Basil Robinson has established a reputation as a leading authority on the art of Persia. His work on Persian manuscript illumination represents one of the most important contributions made in this century to the study of... .... Learn More -
Studies in Persian Art, Volume II [Hardback]
B. W. Robinson (Author)
Regular Price: £150.00
Special Price: £75.00
ISBN: 9780907132448
Published by : Pindar Press
This second volume of Basil Robinson's Studies concentrates on Persian manuscript illumination, beginning with six studies of artists who worked in this medium. There then follows twenty-two studies of individual manuscripts, from the fourteenth c... .... Learn More -
Studies in Chinese and Islamic Art, Volume I: Chinese Art [Hardback]
Basil Gray (Author)
Regular Price: £130.00
Special Price: £65.00
ISBN: 9780907132219
Published by : Pindar Press
Basil Gray's publications on Chinese and Islamic art have done much to introduce these subjects to a European public. This first volume deals with Chinese painting and luxury art. An introductory section on Chinese art attempts to chart the aesthe... .... Learn More