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Risāle-i Mi‘māriyye
An Early-Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Treatise on Architecture. Facsimile with Translation and Notes
Av Howard Crane
Häftad, 1987
915 kr
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The Risāle-i Mi‘māriyye by Ca'fer Efendi is the most extensive and detailed Ottoman literary source devoted to a particular architect. In addition to being an account of the life and works of the imperial architect Mehmed Ağa, builder of the Sultan Ahmed Complex in Istanbul, it serves to suggest …
Bhadreśvar
The Oldest Islamic Monuments in India
Av Shokoohy
Häftad, 1989
895 kr
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Part OneThe Islamic Monuments of BhadreśvarIntroductionHistoryThe Site of Ancient Bhadreśvar and the Shrine of IbrāhīmThe Ancient SiteThe Shrine of IbrāhīmThe MosquesThe Solahkhambī MasjidThe Chhoṭī MasjidOther Architectural RemainsThe ChatriThe Dūdhā WavConclusionAppendix: The Mosque of Abulqāsim …
Ayyubid Metalwork with Christian Images
Av Eva Baer
Häftad, 1989
915 kr
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AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsI. Islamic Lands in the Late Ayyubid PeriodII. The ArtifactsIII. Christian Imagery: It's Models and MeaningNew Testament ScenesSacred and Ecclesiastical ImagesThe Brasses in Their Cultural ContextBibliographyIndexPlates 1-128
Monumental Inscriptions from Early Islamic Iran and Transoxiana
Av Sheila Blair
Häftad, 1991
895 kr
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Inscriptions on buildings are a distinctive feature of Islamic architecture, and this book studies the 79 surviving monumental inscriptions in the Iranian world from the first five centuries of the Muslim era (A.D. 622-1106), the period in which all the major trends of monumental epigraphy in the …
Timurid Art and Culture
Iran and Central Asia in the Fifteenth Century
Häftad, 1992
915 kr
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The nineteen papers collected in this volume were delivered at a symposium held in Toronto, November 1989 in order to discuss the art and culture of Timurid times. The papers cover the last decades of the fourteenth century and the whole of the fifteenth, in an area of western Asia extending …
Gardens in the Time of the Great Muslim Empires
Theory and Design
Häftad, 1997
915 kr
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A conference on the Islamic garden was held at M.I.T. in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1994. This volume collects eight papers from the conference and two additional papers especially written for the book, to further and act as a basis for the attention given by scholars these days to Islamic …
Garden of the Mosques
Hafiz Hüseyin al-Ayvansarayî's Guide to the Muslim Monuments of Ottoman Istanbul
Av Howard Crane
Häftad, 1999
895 kr
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This is an annotated translation of what is perhaps the most important Ottoman literary source for the Islamic monuments of the Ottoman capital, Istanbul: Hafız Hüseyin bin Ismail Ayvansarayî's Hadikat al-Cevami (The Garden of Mosques). Long recognized by Turkish scholars as a unique source for the …
Prefacing the Image
The Writing of Art History in Sixteenth-Century Iran
Häftad, 2000
973 kr
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This book studies developments in art historical writing and factors which shaped the album preface. The prefaces were written in Persian between ca. 1491 and 1609 to introduce albums of calligraphy, painting, and drawing assembled for Safavid rulers and courtiers. Approaches to the study of these …
Album Prefaces and Other Documents on the History of Calligraphers and Painters
Häftad, 2000
915 kr
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This volume contains album prefaces in the original Persian version with English translation, miscellaneous documents relating to calligraphers and painters, and specimens of travel literature from the Timurid and Safavid periods.
Sinan's Autobiographies
Five Sixteenth-Century Texts
Häftad, 2006
886 kr
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The sixteenth-century Ottoman architect Sinan is today universally recognized as the defining figure in the development of the classical Ottoman style. In addition to his vast oeuvre, he left five remarkable autobiographical accounts, the Adsız Risale, the Risāletü'l-Miʿmāriyye, Tuḥfetü'l-Miʿmārīn, …
Arts of Ornamental Geometry
A Persian Compendium on Similar and Complementary Interlocking Figures. A Volume Commemorating Alpay Özdural
Häftad, 2023
968 kr
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This collective study focuses on a unique anonymous medieval document on ornamental geometry featuring geometrical constructions and textual instructions in Persian. Selections from the unpublished work of Alpay Özdural (d. 2003) on this subject have been updated with original contributions by Jan …
