The art and architecture of Islam, 650-1250 /
Overview of Islamic art and architecture from the seventh to the thirteenth centuries, a time of the formation of a new artistic culture and its first, medieval, flowering in the vast area from the Atlantic to India. Inspired by Ettinghausen and Grabar's original text, this book has been comple...
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Language: English
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New Haven [Conn.] :
Yale University Press,
1994.
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Yale University Press Pelican history of art.
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Call Number: ( REF)N6260 .E79 1994
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Maps
- Pt. I. The Caliphate. 1. The rise of Islam and the artistic climate of the period ; 2. The Umayyads and their art: 650-750 ; 3. The Abbasid tradition: 750-950
- Pt. II. The breakdown of the Caliphate. 4. The Muslim West: 750-1260 ; 5. The Fatimids in North Africa and Egypt: 910-1171 ;6. Iran and Central Asia : 800-1025
- Pt. III. The eleventh to thirteenth centuries. 7. Architecture ; 8. The decorative arts
- List of the principal abbreviations
- Notes
- Bibliography
- List of illustrations
- Index.