| Description |
176 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 28 cm. |
| Series |
UNESCO collection of representative works. Art album series |
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UNESCO collection of representative works. Art album series.
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| Contents |
Architecture in its environment -- Major elements of Islamic architecture -- Minarets -- Domed spaces -- Capitals, columns and arches -- Facades, entrances, arcades, courtyards and iwans -- Ceramic and marble revetment -- Transitional zones in architecture -- Screens -- Minbars -- Mihrabs -- Madrasas -- Masterpieces of Islamic art -- The first golden age : The Umayyads and Early Abbasids -- Spain, Morocco and Algeria -- The western and central lands of the Islamic world during the high Middle Ages -- Anatolia, the Iranian world and Central Asia in the later middle ages -- The great empires -- Timurid -- Ottoman -- Safavid -- Mughal -- The development of Islamic art throughout the world -- Sub-Sahara -- China -- South-East Asia. |
| Subject |
Islamic art.
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Islamic architecture.
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Islamic decorative arts.
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| Added Author |
Bahnassi, Afif.
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Rogers, Michael, 1935-
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| ISBN |
2080135104 |
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