The Minaret

Jonathan M. Bloom

• Hardcover | Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Art
• Illustrates the history of iconic element of Islamic architecture. This title reveals that the Minaret, long understood to have been invented in the e... Lees meer

Iranian Art from the Sasanians to the Islamic Republic

• Hardcover | Engels | Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Art
• Linda Komaroff, long-time curator of the Art of the Middle East at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), has pioneered in the study and exhibi... Lees meer

Rumi

John Renard

• Hardcover | Engels | Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Art
• Picturing the life story of Jalal ad-Din Rumi, a premier Muslim mystic and the original Whirling Dervish, the images in three extant manuscripts of Af... Lees meer

The Making of the Artist in Late Timurid Painting

Lamia Balafrej

• Paperback | Engels | Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Art
• In the absence of a tradition of self-portraiture, how could artists signal their presence within a painting? Centred on late Timurid manuscript paint... Lees meer

Mina'i Ware

Richard P McClary

• Hardcover | Engels | Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Art
• Mina'i, or polychrome overglaze, ware was made in Iran between the late 12th and the early 13th centuries. However, most pieces in museums have in fac... Lees meer

The Shrines of the 'Alids in Medieval Syria

Stephennie Mulder

• Paperback | Engels | Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Art
• The first illustrated, architectural history of the 'Alid shrines, increasingly endangered by the conflict in Syria The 'Alids (descendants of the Pro... Lees meer

Isfahan and Its Palaces

Sussan Babaie

• Paperback | Engels | Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Art
• This beautifully illustrated history of Safavid Isfahan (1501-1722) explores the architectural and urban forms and networks of socio-cultural action t... Lees meer

The Dome of the Rock and Its Umayyad Mosaic Inscriptions

Marcus Milwright

• Hardcover | Engels | Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Art
• Located on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, the Dome of the Rock was constructed at the end of the seventh century by order of caliph 'Abd al-Malik. Thi... Lees meer

Palace Gardens in Lower Mesopotamia

Safa Mahmoudian

• Hardcover | Engels | Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Art
• Gardens were both a setting and showcase for nearly every aspect of social and daily life at the royal court during the early Islamic period in Wester... Lees meer

Inscriptions of the Medieval Islamic World

• Hardcover | Engels | Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Art
• This volume offers an overview of the state of the field, and shows the importance of Islamic inscriptions for disciplines such as art history, histor... Lees meer

The Making of Islamic Art

• Hardcover | Engels | Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Art
• In their own words, Jonathan Bloom and Sheila Blair espouse 'things and thinginess rather than theories and isations'. This book's practical, down-to-... Lees meer

The Kaʿba Orientations

Simon O'Meara

• Hardcover | Engels | Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Art
• The most sacred site of Islam, the Kaʿba (the granite cuboid structure at the centre of the Great Mosque of Mecca) is here investigated by examining s... Lees meer

Islamic Chinoiserie

Yuka Kadoi

• Paperback | Engels | Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Art
• The Mongol invasion in the thirteenth century marked a new phase in the development of Islamic art. Trans-Eurasian exchanges of goods, people and idea... Lees meer

Isfahan and Its Palaces

Sussan Babaie

• Hardcover | Engels | Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Art
• This beautifully illustrated history of Safavid Isfahan (1501-1722) explores the architectural and urban forms and networks of socio-cultural action t... Lees meer

China'S Early Mosques

Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt

• Hardcover | Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Art
• Explains how the worship requirements of the mosque and the Chinese architectural system converged. What happens when a monotheistic, aniconic, foreig... Lees meer

Text and Image in Medieval Persian Art

Sheila S Blair

• Paperback | Engels | Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Art
• Focusing on 5 objects found in the main media at the time - ceramics, metalware, painting, architecture and textiles - Sheila S. Blair shows how artis... Lees meer

The Making of the Artist in Late Timurid Painting

Lamia Balafrej

• Hardcover | Engels | Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Art
• In the absence of a tradition of self-portraiture, how could artists signal their presence within a painting? Centred on late Timurid manuscript paint... Lees meer

Text and Image in Medieval Persian Art

Sheila S Blair

• Hardcover | Engels | Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Art
• Focusing on 5 objects found in the main media from the 10th to the 16th century - ceramics, metalware, painting, architecture and textiles - Sheila S.... Lees meer

Reframing the Alhambra

Olga Bush

• Hardcover | Engels | Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Art
• The Nasrid builders of the Alhambra - the best-preserved medieval Muslim palatial city - were so exacting that some of their work could not be fully e... Lees meer

The Shrines of the 'Alids in Medieval Syria

Stephennie Mulder

• Hardcover | Engels | Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Art
• The first illustrated, architectural history of the 'Alid shrines, increasingly endangered by the conflict in Syria The 'Alids (descendants of the Pro... Lees meer

The Wonders of Creation and the Singularities of Painting

Stefano Carboni

• Hardcover | Engels | Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Art
• The subject of this book is the so-called London Qazvīnī, an early 14 th -century illustrated Arabic copy of al-Qazvīnī's The Wonders of Creation and ... Lees meer