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Dome of the Rock and its Umayyad Mosaic Inscriptions
Inbunden, 2016
1596 kr
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Located on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, the Dome of the Rock was constructed at the end of the seventh century by order of caliph ‘Abd al-Malik. This seminal structure has been much studied but no definitive interpretation yet exists of the meanings conveyed by the Dome at the time of its …
Iranian Art from the Sasanians to the Islamic Republic
Essays in Honour of Linda Komaroff
Av Sheila S. Blair, Jonathan M. Bloom m. fl.
Inbunden, 2024
1644 kr
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Linda Komaroff, long-time curator of the Art of the Middle East at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), has pioneered in the study and exhibition of Islamic art to include contemporary works. Her interests have long focused on the arts of Iran. With this volume her friends and colleagues …
Mina’i Ware
A Reassessment and Comprehensive Study of Iranian Polychrome Overglaze Wares through Sherds
Inbunden, 2024
1644 kr
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Mina'i, or polychrome overglaze, ware was made in Iran between the late 12th and the early 13th centuries. However, most pieces in museums have in fact been rebuilt, often from pieces of multiple different vessels with extensive plaster fill and modern overpaint. Only by closely examining …
Forgotten Qur'ans of the Eastern Islamic World
Manuscripts of the Ghaznavid and Ghurid Dynasties, 11th-12th Centuries CE
Av Alya Karame
Inbunden, 2026
2324 kr
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The Ghaznavid and Ghurid Qur’ans (c. eleventh–Twelfth centuries CE), studied for the first time as a corpus, inform of how the Qur’an was copied at the beginning of a transformative period in the history of its production when paper, new scripts and the vertical format were adopted. As the book …
Palace Gardens in Lower Mesopotamia
8th to 11th Centuries
Inbunden, 2024
1848 kr
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Gardens were both a setting and showcase for nearly every aspect of social and daily life at the royal court during the early Islamic period in Western Asia. Safa Mahmoudian uses ?a wide range of ?primary source materials including ??contemporary ??Arabic manuscripts, together with archaeological …
Princes, Dervishes and Dragons
The Tile Arcade from Safavid Isfahan (c. 1685–95)
Av Lisa Golombek, Robert B. Mason
Inbunden, 2025
2053 kr
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Toward the end of the nineteenth century much of Iran's architectural heritage gave way to urban development. Among the casualties were the seventeenth-century Safavid palaces of Isfahan. Local dealers salvaged a series of astonishingly beautiful pictorial arch-shaped panels composed of cuerda seca …
Islamic Objects in Seventeenth-Century Italy
Ferdinando Cospi, the Bologna Collection and the Medici Court
Inbunden, 2025
2393 kr
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This book reassesses the idea that Islamic objects in seventeenth-century Italy were considered mere curiosities, sparking no cultural or historical interest. It focuses on Italy's largest collection of Islamic artefacts of the time, assembled by the Medici agent and Bolognese nobleman Ferdinando …
Stucco in the Islamic World
Studies of Architectural Ornament from Spain to India
Inbunden, 2025
2146 kr
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This is the first major book about Islamic stucco, and the central theme is the re-examination of the uses of stucco in architecture across the Islamic world in the pre-modern period.The book engages with new methodological approaches, including those that go beyond traditional art-historical ones, …
Illustrated Ottoman Cosmographies, c. 1550–1700
The World through Muslim Eyes
Av Bilha Moor
Inbunden, 2025
2393 kr
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This book explores the unprecedented Ottoman interest in illustrated cosmographies and their representation of the world and its inhabitants. It analyses fifteen illustrated manuscripts of four cosmographical texts on the Old and New Worlds (in Arabic, Persian and Ottoman Turkish) produced in the …
Manuscript Matters and the Persian Arts of the Book in Early Modern Times
Inbunden, 2026
2210 kr
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Based on the 2025 Yarshater Lectures in Persian Art, this book presents distinctive aspects – some familiar and others overlooked – of Persianate manuscripts and manuscript making during the early modern period. Its four parts focus on paintings that often come at the beginning and end of …
Lajvardina Wares
Cobalt and Gold
Inbunden, 2026
2342 kr
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This book examines the well-known but still poorly understood corpus of lajvardina ware from Iran, Central Asia and Russia. Acting as a follow-up volume to Mina'i Ware: A Reassessment and Comprehensive Study of Iranian Polychrome Overglaze Wares Through Sherds (Edinburgh University Press, 2024), it …
Lajvardina Wares
Cobalt and Gold
E-bok, 2026
2754 kr
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This book examines the well-known but still poorly understood corpus of lajvardina ware from Iran, Central Asia and Russia. Acting as a follow-up volume to Mina'i Ware: A Reassessment and Comprehensive Study of Iranian Polychrome Overglaze Wares Through Sherds (Edinburgh University Press, 2024), it …
Lajvardina Wares
Cobalt and Gold
E-bok, 2026
2694 kr
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This book examines the well-known but still poorly understood corpus of lajvardina ware from Iran, Central Asia and Russia. Acting as a follow-up volume to Mina'i Ware: A Reassessment and Comprehensive Study of Iranian Polychrome Overglaze Wares Through Sherds (Edinburgh University Press, 2024), it …
Rum Seljuq Architecture, 1170-1220
The Patronage of Sultans
Inbunden, 2016
1596 kr
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This lavishly illustrated volume presents the major surviving monuments of the early period of the Rum Seljuqs, the first major Muslim dynasty to rule Anatolia. A much-needed overview of the political history of the dynasty provides the context for the study of the built environment which follows. …
Medieval Monuments of Central Asia
Qarakhanid Architecture of the 11th and 12th Centuries
Inbunden, 2020
1596 kr
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This is a comprehensive study of the surviving monuments of the Qarakhanids – an important yet little-known medieval dynasty that ruled much of Central Asia between the late 10th and early 13th centuries. Based on extensive fieldwork and many hard-to-find Russian sources, the book places the …
Making of Islamic Art
Studies in Honour of Sheila Blair and Jonathan Bloom
Inbunden, 2021
1497 kr
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In their own words, Jonathan Bloom and Sheila Blair espouse ‘things and thinginess rather than theories and isations’. This book’s practical, down-to-earth dimension, expressed in plain, simple English, runs counter to the current fashion for theoretical explanations and their accompanying jargon …
Isfahan and its Palaces
Statecraft, Shi`ism and the Architecture of Conviviality in Early Modern Iran
Häftad, 2018
594 kr
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This beautifully illustrated history of Safavid Isfahan (1501–1722) explores the architectural and urban forms and networks of socio-cultural action that reflected a distinctly early-modern and Perso-Shi‘i practice of kingship.An immense building campaign, initiated in 1590-91, transformed Isfahan …
Islamic Chinoiserie
The Art of Mongol Iran
Av Yuka Kadoi
Häftad, 2018
590 kr
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This beautifully illustrated history of Safavid Isfahan (1501 1722) explores the architectural and urban forms and networks of socio-cultural action that reflected a distinctly early-modern and Perso-Shi'i practice of kingship. An immense building campaign, initiated in 1590-91, transformed Isfahan …
China's Early Mosques
Häftad, 2018
607 kr
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What happens when a monotheistic, foreign religion needs a space in which to worship in China, a civilisation with a building tradition that has been largely unchanged for several millennia? The story of this extraordinary convergence begins in the 7th century and continues under the Chinese rule …
Minaret
Häftad, 2018
577 kr
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Tracing its origins and development, Bloom reveals that the Minaret, long understood to have been invented in the early years of Islam as the place from which the muezzin gives the call to prayer, was actually invented some two centuries later to be a visible symbol of Islam. From early Islam to …
Making of the Artist in Late Timurid Painting
Häftad, 2024
512 kr
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In the absence of a tradition of self-portraiture, how could artists signal their presence within a painting? Centred on late Timurid manuscript painting (ca. 1470-1500), this book reveals that pictures could function as the painter's delegate, charged with the task of centring and defining …
Text and Image in Medieval Persian Art
Häftad, 2019
700 kr
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Focusing on 5 objects found in the main media at the time - ceramics, metalware, painting, architecture and textiles - Sheila S. Blair shows how artisans played with form, material and decoration to engage their audiences. She also shows how the reception of these objects has changed and that their …
Shrines of the 'Alids in Medieval Syria
Sunnis, Shi'is and the Architecture of Coexistence
Av Stephennie Mulder, Stephennie Mulder
Häftad, 2019
590 kr
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The first illustrated, architectural history of the ‘Alid shrines, increasingly endangered by the conflict in SyriaThe ‘Alids (descendants of the Prophet Muhammad) are among the most revered figures in Islam, beloved by virtually all Muslims, regardless of sectarian affiliation. This study argues …
Seljuqs and their Successors
Art, Culture and History
Av Sheila Canby, Deniz Beyazit m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
1592 kr
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Rising from nomadic origins as Turkish tribesmen, the powerful and culturally prolific Seljuqs and their successor states dominated vast lands extending from Central Asia to the eastern Mediterranean from the eleventh to the fourteenth century. Supported by colour images, charts, and maps, this …
Islamic Manuscripts of Late Medieval Rum, 1270s-1370s
Production, Patronage and the Arts of the Book
Inbunden, 2020
1759 kr
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Between the Mongol invasions in the mid-13th century and the rise of the Ottomans in the late 14th century, the Lands of Rūm were marked by instability and conflict. Despite this, a rich body of illuminated manuscripts from the period survives, explored here in this extensively illustrated volume. …
Dome of the Rock and its Umayyad Mosaic Inscriptions
E-bok, 2019
1794 kr
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Located on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, the Dome of the Rock was constructed at the end of the seventh century by order of caliph ‘Abd al-Malik. This seminal structure has been much studied but no definitive interpretation yet exists of the meanings conveyed by the Dome at the time of its …
Dome of the Rock and its Umayyad Mosaic Inscriptions
E-bok, 2019
1834 kr
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Located on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, the Dome of the Rock was constructed at the end of the seventh century by order of caliph ‘Abd al-Malik. This seminal structure has been much studied but no definitive interpretation yet exists of the meanings conveyed by the Dome at the time of its …
Wonders of Creation and the Singularities of Painting
A Study of the Ilkhanid London Qazvīnī
Häftad, 2020
735 kr
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The subject of this book is the so-called London Qazvīnī, an early 14th-century illustrated Arabic copy of al-Qazvīnī’s The Wonders of Creation and the Oddities of Existing Things, which was acquired by the British Library in 1983 (Or. 14140). As is commonly the case for copies of this text, the …
Rumi
A Life in Pictures
Av John Renard
Inbunden, 2021
1322 kr
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Picturing the life story of Jalal ad-Din Rumi, a premier Muslim mystic and the original Whirling Dervish, the images in three extant manuscripts of Aflaki’s Wondrous Feats of the Knowers of God provide a unique way to interpret the text. Part One: History and Context provides the medieval Anatolian …
