Research Catalog

Title

Islam : art and architecture / edited by Markus Hattstein and Peter Delius ; [translation from German, George Ansell ... et al.].

Publication

Cologne : Könemann, c2000.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Hattstein, Markus
• Delius, Peter

Description

639 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps, ports., plans; 32 cm.

Summary

This book follows the historical development of the Islamic regions and their ruling dynasties, and illustrates their greatly varied forms of artistic expression from the birth of the religion to the present day.

Uniform Title

Islam. English.

Subjects

• Islamic art
• Islamic architecture

Note

• Translation of: Islam: Kunst und Architektur.
• Revision of the English text: Jardi Mullinax and Russell Cennydd.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 604-611) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Islam: world religion and cultural power -- Art and culture in the Islamic world -- Syria and Palestine: the Umayyad caliphate -- Iran, Iraq and Egypt: the Abbasids -- Tunisia and Egypt: the Aghlabids and Fatimids -- Syria, Palestine and Egypt: Ayyubids, Mamluks and Crusaders -- Spain and Morocco -- The Maghreb: from Morocco to Tunisia -- Early empires of the East: Ghaznavids and Ghurids -- Central Asia and Asia Minor: the great Seljuks, the Anatolian Seljuks and the Khwarazm-Shahs -- Islamic Mongols: from the Mongol invasions to the Ilkhanids -- Central Asia: the Timurids, the Shaybanids and the Khan princedoms -- Indian subcontinent: from Sultanate to Mughal Empire -- Iran: Safavids and Qajars -- The Ottoman Empire -- Islam in the modern age.

ISBN

• 3829025580
• 9783829025584

OCLC

• 47185414
• SCSB-10002577

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library