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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Charles Masson: Collections from Begram and Kabul Bazaar, Afghanistan 1833–1838 [Paperback]
Elizabeth Errington (Author)
£40.00ISBN: 9780861592197
Published by : British Museum Press
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The book discusses and catalogues Charles Masson’s 1833–8 collections from the urban site of Begram and Kabul bazaar. It utilises Masson archival material which appears as a supplementary BM online publication The Charles Masson Archive: British L... .... Learn More -
Further Studies in Islamic Painting [Hardback]
Ernst Grube (Author)
£200.00ISBN: 9781899828500
Published by : Pindar Press
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A collection of Professor Grube's essays on Islamic paintings of the late 14th and 15th century in the Timurid empire and Ottoman Turkey. This is a new revised edition of the 1968 exhibition catalogue The Classical Style of Islamic Painting , ... .... Learn More -
Studies in the Islamic Decorative Arts [Hardback]
Robert Hillenbrand (Author)
£150.00ISBN: 9781904597506
Published by : Pindar Press
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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 mino... .... Learn More -
Iranian Copper, Brass and Bronze: Of the late 14th to the mid-18th centuries in the Collection of the State Hermitage Museum [Hardback]
Anatoli Ivanov (Author)
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ISBN: 9781898592372
Published by : Azimuth Editions
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In Western Europe the Golden Age of Islamic metalwork in Iran was (and is) generally considered to be the earlier period, and later metalwork was collected almost by accident and has been correspondingly little studied and poorly published, though... .... Learn More -
Islam and Democracy: Voices of Muslims amongst us [Paperback]
Amédée Edward Turner (Author); Davide Tacchini (Author)
£13.00ISBN: 9788869771774
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Politics
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During the last six years, a team of scholars, researchers and religious leaders in Europe and the USA worked tirelessly, organising over seventy discussion groups that included members of the local Muslim communities. The present volume presents ... .... Learn More -
Studies in the Decorative Arts of the Muslim World [Hardback]
Ernst Grube (Author)
£250.00ISBN: 9780907132790
Published by : Pindar Press
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A selection of twelve previously published papers by Ernst Grube which examine specific materials used in Islamic decorative arts. Six papers examine pottery and tiles, one considers Ilkhanis stucco work as represented in the mausoleum of the ... .... Learn More -
Codicological and Orthographical Analysis of Kitāb Ġurar al-fawāyd by aš-Šarīf al-Murtaḍā MS. 1665 H 43 Biblioteca Ambrosiana [Paperback]
Ali Faraj (Author)
£12.00ISBN: 9788869771583
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Abraxas / Essays
During a period of over five years of work in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan, the author has examined the majority of its Arabic manuscripts in order to provide some elementary codicological data. This monograph describes the Kitāb Ġurar a... .... Learn More -
Late Neolithic and Early Chalcolithic Glyphs and Stamp Seals in the British Museum [Paperback]
Simon Denham (Author)
£40.00ISBN: 9780861592081
Published by : British Museum Press
Series: British Museum Research Publication
Volume: 208
Stamp seals were used in a similar way to modern signet rings: a negative object used to impress a design into another material, often clay. They are common from around 7000 BC and have remained in use in parts of the world continuously until the ... .... Learn More -
World of the Fatimids [Hardback]
Assadullah Souren Melikian-Chirvani (Editor)
Regular Price: £52.00
Special Price: £30.00
ISBN: 9783777430379
Published by : Hirmer Verlag GmbH
This survey in 14 essays of Fatimid art between the 10th and 12th centuries showcases the pottery, rock crystal, metalwork, textile, architectural, wood, and calligraphic creations of one of t he most artistically inventive periods in Islamic cult... .... Learn More -
Routledge Handbook on Jerusalem [Hardback]
Suleiman A. Mourad (Editor); Bedross Der Matossian (Editor); Naomi Koltun-Fromm (Editor)
Regular Price: £165.00
Special Price: £135.00
ISBN: 9781138936935
Published by : Routledge
Few cities around the world transcend their physical boundaries the way Jerusalem does. As the spiritual capital of monotheism, Jerusalem has ancient roots and legacies that have imposed themselves on and accompanied its inhabitants throughout the... .... Learn More
