Islamic art : architecture, painting, calligraphy, ceramics, glass, carpets
This gorgeous survey of art from the Islamic world covers three continents and fourteen centuries
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| Language: | English |
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Munich, Germany ; New York :
Prestel Publication ,
2010
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Basic Principles
- 2. The interpretation of Islamic art
- 3. The forms of Islamic architecture
- 4. Calligraphy: the form of the divine word
- 5. The applied arts
- 6. The History of Islamic Art
- 7. The Umayyads
- 8. The Abbasids: empire of the Caliphate
- 9. The Mediterranean basin between the eighth and eleventh centuries: the birth of regional identity
- 10. Central Asia between the tenth and twelfth centuries
- 11. The Mediterranean basin between the eleventh and fifteenth centuries
- 12. The Seljuqs
- 13. The Ilkhanids, the Timurids, and the Khanates
- 14. The Ottoman empire
- 15. Persia from the Safavids to the Qajar dynasty
- 16. The Indian subcontinent
- 17. Principle dynasties and figures of the Islamic world