Discover Islamic art in the Mediterranean
2007, First Edition. Brussels, Belgium Beirut, Lebanon : Museum With No Frontiers ; Arab Institute for Research and Publishing. Fine copy in the original colour-printed boards. Particularly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #419807
ISBN: 1874044635
Physical description; 272 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 29 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 262-263) and index. In English; some articles translated from French, Italian, and Spanish. Contents; The Mediterranean prior to the Islamic expansion / Aicha Benabed -- The Prophet and the rightly guided caliphs / Muhammad al-Asad and Claus-Peter Haase -- The Umayyads: Damascus, the first capital / Ghazi Bisheh -- Figurative decoration / Jens Kröger and Mohammed Najjar -- The Abbasids : the first Islamic empire / Noorah al-Gailani and Mounira Chapatout-Remadi -- The conquest of the West : Cordoba, Umayyad capital in al-Andalus / Mohamed Mezzine -- Calligraphy : the sublime art of Islam / ule Aksoy and Khader Salameh -- Islamic and Norman Sicily / Pier Paolo Racioppi and Ettore Sessa -- The Fatimids : two centuries of supremacy / Ulrike al-Khamis -- Women and power in the Islamic Mediterranean / Jamila Binous -- The Muslim West after the Umayyads / Gaspar Aranda and Kamal Lakhdar -- Islamic geometry : the philosophy of space / Naima Elkhatib-Boubijar -- The central Maghreb : conquest and dissidence / Farida Benouis and Boussad Ouadi -- 'And we made out of water every living thing' : water in Islam / Sheila Canby and Zena Takieddine -- Mudéjar art : the Islamic heritage in Christian Portugal and Spain / Gonzalo Borrás Gualís and Santiago Macías -- The Ayyubid era : conflicts and coexistence in medieval Syria / Abdal-Razzaq Moaz and Emily Shovelton -- The Hajj : pilgrimage in Islam / Nazmi al-Jubeh -- The Mamluks : Cairo becomes the new centre of the Islamic world / Mohamed Abbas -- Science and music / Mònica Rius -- The Ottomans : rulers for six hundred years / Verena Daiber and nci Kuyulu Ersoy -- Reflections of Paradise : floral decoration in Islamic art -- Western influences in Ottoman lands / Mehmet Kahyao lu and Paola Torre. Subjects; Islamic art Mediterranean Region. Islamic decorative arts Mediterranean Region. Art, Islamic History. Mediterranean art.
Price: €30.00