Islamic art and architecture / Robert Hillenbrand.

Main entry:

Hillenbrand, Robert.

Title & Author:

Islamic art and architecture / Robert Hillenbrand.

Publication:

Description:

288 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 22 cm.

Series:

World of art

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-282) and index.
Birth of Islamic art: the Umayyads -- 'Abbasids -- Fatimids -- Saljuqs -- Age of the Atabegs: Syria, Iraq and Anatolia, 1100-1300 -- Mamluks -- Muslim west -- Ilkhanids and Timurids -- Safavids -- Ottomans.

Summary:

"Embracing a thousand years of history and an area stretching from the Atlantic to the borders of India and China, Robert Hillenbrand - a world authority on Islamic art and architecture - has written an unrivalled new synthesis of the arts of Islamic civilization. From the death of the Prophet Muhammad to the survival of the Ottoman empire well into the modern age, Hillenbrand traces the evolution of an extraordinary range of art forms, including architecture, calligraphy, book illumination, painting, ceramics, glassware, textiles and metalwork. Complete with maps and glossary, this is an accessible and definitive guide to the arts of a vastly accomplished civilization."--Jacket.

ISBN:

0500203059 (paperback)
9780500203057 (paperback)

Subject:

Islamic art.
Islamic architecture.
Symbolism in architecture Islamic countries.
Art islamique.
Architecture islamique.
Symbolisme en architecture Pays musulmans.
Symbolism in architecture
Islamitische kunst.
ARTE MUÇULMANA.
ARQUITETURA MUÇULMANA.
ISLAMISMO (ARQUITETURA)
Islamic countries

Added entries:

World of art.

Holdings:

Location: Library study room 200019
Call No.: NA380 .H5 1999
Status: Available

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