Art & Architecture

ISBN: 9782080304216
Published by : Editions Flammarion
This richly illustrated volume celebrates the work of the late 15th-century artist Bihzâd of Herât (in Afghanistan) who became the master of the `Persian miniature'. Full colour reproductions of Bihzâd's work are accompanied by extracts (in Eng... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781841715933
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
The site of Al-Basra lies in northern Morocco and was said to have been founded during the break-up of the Islamic empire in North Africa and Spain in c.AD 800, only to have been abandoned just 300 years later. This volume contains a series of ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781841716084
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
This analysis of trade in the Western Indian Ocean between the Sasanian period in the 4th century AD and the present day is based on a classification of ceramics from Ras al-Khaimah in the United Arab Emirates. Many thousands of fragments have ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9789004138902
Published by : Brill Academic Publishers
In assessing the built environment of Gujarat, north west India, Alka Patel questions the use of classifactory divisions between religious and secular and between Hindu and Muslim architecture. What her study reveals is that the architecture d... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781885923349
Published by : Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
This volume addresses the topical interest in Islam, studying the process of its spread throughout the medieval world and the process of conversion to this religion and adoption of its cultural life. The evidence is presented in a series of ess... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780860787075
Published by : Ashgate Publishing Ltd
These thirteen essays, most of which have been previously published since 1961, are intended as a reference guide to Islamic manufacturing and labour across the Mediterranean and Near East. The papers include analyses of historical sources and ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9783805318778
Published by : Philipp von Zabern
Series: BAGHDADER FORSCHUNGEN
Volume: 20
Excavations carried out in 1911 and 1913 at Samarra in Iraq by Ernst Herzfeld on behalf of the Kaiser Friederich Museum of Berlin comprised `the first large-scale archaeological research on Islamic antiquities'. This volume, in addition to repo... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9789774243936
Published by : American Univ. in Cairo Press
During the 19th and 20th centuries the rich and highly organic deposits of al-Fustat in Cairo were excavated for fertilizer and landfill. Over the years a large number of well-preserved finds were discovered, providing a valuable record of life... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780860787051
Published by : Variorum
A collection of fourteen previously published articles by noted scholars in the field of Islamic art and architecture, some of which are newly translated into Enlgish. They cover the formative years of Islamic history, c.AD600-950, and reflect ... .... Learn More