Discover Islamic art in the Mediterranean
| Parallelsachtitel: |
Islamic art in the Mediterranean |
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| Körperschaft: |
European Union
Unione Europea Programma MEDA/Euromed Heritage Museum With No Frontiers |
| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Brussels, Belgium : Vienna, Austria : [Cairo, Egypt] : London, United Kingdom : Maidstone :
Musée Sans Frontières (AISBL) [Museum With No Frontiers] ; Museum Ohne Grenzen [Museum With No Frontiers] ; al Dar al-Marriah al-Lubnaniah ; published in cooperation with Art Books International ; Amalgamated Book Services [distributor],
c2007.
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| Umfang/Format: |
272 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 29 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9781874044635 1874044635 9789774271069 9774271068 9953369577 9789953369570 |
| Schlagworte: | |
Inhaltsangabe:
- The Mediterranean prior to the Islamic expansion / Aicha Benabed
- The Prophet and the rightly guided caliphs / Muhammad al-Asad and Claus-Peter Haase
- The Umayyads: Damascus, the first capital / Ghazi Bisheh
- Figurative decoration / Jens Kröger and Mohammed Najjar
- The Abbasids : the first Islamic empire / Noorah al-Gailani and Mounira Chapatout-Remadi
- The conquest of the West : Cordoba, Umayyad capital in al-Andalus / Mohamed Mezzine
- Calligraphy : the sublime art of Islam / Şule Aksoy and Khader Salameh
- Islamic and Norman Sicily / Pier Paolo Racioppi and Ettore Sessa
- The Fatimids : two centuries of supremacy / Ulrike al-Khamis
- Women and power in the Islamic Mediterranean / Jamila Binous
- The Muslim West after the Umayyads / Gaspar Aranda and Kamal Lakhdar
- Islamic geometry : the philosophy of space / Naima Elkhatib-Boubijar
- The central Maghreb : conquest and dissidence / Farida Benouis and Boussad Ouadi
- 'And we made out of water every living thing' : water in Islam / Sheila Canby and Zena Takieddine
- Mudéjar art : the Islamic heritage in Christian Portugal and Spain / Gonzalo Borrás Gualís and Santiago Macías
- The Ayyubid era : conflicts and coexistence in medieval Syria / Abdal-Razzaq Moaz and Emily Shovelton
- The Hajj : pilgrimage in Islam / Nazmi al-Jubeh
- The Mamluks : Cairo becomes the new centre of the Islamic world / Mohamed Abbas
- Science and music / Mònica Rius
- The Ottomans : rulers for six hundred years / Verena Daiber and İnci Kuyulu Ersoy
- Reflections of Paradise : floral decoration in Islamic art / a collaboration
- Western influences in Ottoman lands / Mehmet Kahyaoğlu and Paola Torre.
