Islamic Art and Architecture (World of Art)

Contributor(s): Author: Partha MitterThis concise yet lively new survey guides the reader through 5, 000 years of Indian art and architecture. A ri...

Reducere. Islam's unknown tradition of figurationMany people believe that it is not permitted to depict human figures in Islamic art, but the Quran does not ...

- One of the first in-depth studies on the Deccan: a major survey on unpublished Islamic buildings- Stunningly illustrated, featuring high-quality,...

Reducere. This comprehensive, accessible, and authenticated guide to Islam is essential to understanding the world's fastest-growing religion. This essential...

In his major new history, Paul Greenhalgh tells the story of ceramics as a story of human civilisation, from the Ancient Greeks to the present day....

In this newest edition of her bestselling book, Barbara H. Rosenwein integrates the history of European, Byzantine, and Islamic medieval cultures--...

Long before Muhammed preached the religion of Islam, the inhabitants of his native Arabia had played an important role in world history as both mer...

Globalization affects every aspect of our lives, from what we buy to what we eat to what we study-and the study of design history is no exception. ...

At the crossroads between Africa, Asia, and Europe, the South Arabian kingdoms were major commercial, military, and cultural players in world histo...