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The Art of Orientation celebrates the origins, meanings, and functions of the mosque throughout the world using a careful selection of one hundred and twenty-five artifacts—including intricately designed pulpits, prayer rugs, lamps, and manuscripts. Tracing the evolution of the mosque from the Prophet’s humble mud-brick structure in Medina to the imposing stone assemblies of Cairo and Istanbul, an interdisciplinary group of leading Arab and international authors present a personal, insightful, and accessible survey of Islamic masterpieces past and present.
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Idries Trevathan and Mona AlJalhami are curators of Islamic art at the King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture (Ithra) in Dhahran Saudi Arabia. They are responsible for bringing together the exhibition Shatr Almasjid: The Art of Orientation, which this book accompanies.
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