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After Timur: Qur'ans of the 15th and 16th Centuries (The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art, VOL III) Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art, David James The third of four volumes cataloguing the Qur'ans in the Khalili Collection, this book includes fifteenth century Qur'ans in Iran, Egypt, Syria, Constantinople, and India as well as sixteenth century Qur'ans in Iran and India. |
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Arts and Crafts of Turkestan Johannes Kalter This book is an excellent introduction and overview of the crafts of the area, from household items of metal, china, and wood, to weaving implements, clothing, jewelry, textiles and horse harness. With regard to women's clothing, and jewelry, one learns that items of jewelry, and colors of garments denote the wearer's age and marital status. |
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Discovering Islamic Art : Scholars, Collectors and Collections, 1850-1950 Stephen Vernoit (Editor) Written by leading specialists in Islamic art, this collection of essays explores the development of collecting and scholarship in the field between 1850 and 1950, the period when the intellectual foundations for the study of Islamic art were established. |
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Islamic Art in Context : Art, Architecture, and the Literary World Robert Irwin, Harry N. Abrams Robert Irwin delves deep into the cultures of the Islamic world to survey the exquisite arts of painting, architecture, porcelain, enamel, manuscript illumination, metalwork, calligraphy, textiles, and more. Including 217 illustrations, 148 in full color, the book covers the earliest foundations of Islam through the brilliant high point of the 17th century. |
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Islamic Inscriptions Sheila Blair, Shelia S. Blair
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The Art and Architecture of Islam : 650-1250 (Pelican History of Art) Richard Ettinghausen, Oleg Grabar (Contributor) The Prophet's own house at Madina and the Ka'ba at Mecca stand at the beginning of this account of the earlier treasures of Muslim art and architecture from 650-1250, the history, culture and arts of the period are integrated and allowed to shed light one upon another. |
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THE ARTS OF WAR. Arms and Armour of the 7th to 19th centuries Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art, David Alexander This is a lavishly illustrated presentation of the Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art's collection of arms and armor. The items range in date from the seventh to the nineteenth centuries A.D. In avoiding the strictly typological classification of most previous catalogues of the subject, the aim is to give a full sense of the panoply of warfare: the stirrup, the drum, and the talismanic shirt were as important to the Muslim warrior as the sword and the mail shirt. |
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The Master Scribes: Qur'ans of the 11th to 14th Centuries AD (The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art, VOL II) David James, James James The second of four volumes cataloguing the Qur'ans, this book includes a Qur'an that retains its original illumination by the greatest calligrapher of the Middle Ages, Yaqut al-Musta 'simi. Other masterpieces include a Qur'an written in gold from twelfth-century Iraq; the only twelfth-century Qur'an from Valencia; and a manuscript that is possibly the earliest Qur'an to survive from India. |
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