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Published by I. B. Tauris Publishers in association with The Centre of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge., London and New York., 2000
Seller: Sapience Bookstore, Hexham, United Kingdom
Book
Hard with Dust Jacket. Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket. Lavishly illustrated throughout. (illustrator). First printing. Fine in near fine dust jacket.
Published by London & New York: I. B. Tauris Publishers, 2001
Seller: BookLovers of Bath, Peasedown St. John, BATH, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardback in Dust Wrapper. ### IMPORTANT: Weighing 2.2kg. shipping beyond the shores of my utopian country will be by ParcelForce World Wide, and starts at £15.00 Europe/£30.00 Elsewhere (less the displayed cost) for a 5-7 day service, tracked, duties unpaid. ### First edition (first printing). Hardback in dust wrapper (black boards with gilt titling to the spine) Physically 12" x 9¾" (2.2 kg); (xx) 331pp; Index; In the Pembroke Persian Papers series; Includes: Colour plates; Black & white plates; Number 3 in the series. ISBN: 1-850-43659-2 || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #186305|| Condition: Very Good in Very Good Dust Wrapper. A little rubbing to the edges of the dust wrapper with a strip of sunning at the join of the upper panel. Previous owners' name & date to the first blank. Table of Contents title is highlighted. Text complete, clean and tight otherwise.
Published by London : Al Tajir-World of Islam Trust, 2005
ISBN 10: 1901435121ISBN 13: 9781901435122
Seller: Joseph Burridge Books, Chadwell Heath, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. 320 pages, illustrations : 27 cm. 'Studies by a range of eminent experts exploring the iconography and meaning of Islamic art drawing on a range of disciplines of interpretation and containing an extensive bibliography by Professor Ernst Gruber which is in itself an indispensable resource for all Islamic art historians.' Contents: New light on Islamic iconography / Robert Hillenbrand -- Iconography in Islamic art / Ernst Grube -- Solar and celestial symbolism in medieval Islamic art / James Allan -- The Minbar of Al-Aqsa: form and function / Sylvia Auld -- Mightiness, ecstasy and control: some general features of Islamic arts / Johann-Christoph Bürgel -- A royal drinking scene from Alchi: Iranian iconography in the Western Himalayas / Finbarr B. Flood -- Early medieval Islamic court life: the evidence of the literary sources / ʻAbd al-Rahman al-Gailani -- Paradise glimpsed by the Muslim believer at prayer / Raya Y. Shani -- The iconography of the illustrated Timurid Ẓafarnāma manuscripts / Eleanor Sims -- Fire-making, and its influence on the background to some mysterious iconography in medieval Islamic art / Marian Wenzel -- A bibliography of iconography in Islamic art / Ernst J. Grube.
Published by London : Al Tajir-World of Islam Trust, 2009
ISBN 10: 1901435067ISBN 13: 9781901435061
Seller: Joseph Burridge Books, Chadwell Heath, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. x, 517 pages : illustrations, maps ; 31 cm. In a slipcase. Contents: Ayyubid Jerusalem : a historical introduction / Carole Hillenbrand -- The art of the Ayyubids : an overview / Robert Hillenbrand -- Cross-currents and coincidences : a perspective on Ayyubid metalwork / Sylvia Auld -- The minbar of Nur Al-Din in context / Sylvia Auld -- The wooden balustrade in the Sakhra / Sylvia Auld -- The power of the word : Ayyubid inscriptions in Jerusalem / Sheila S. Blair -- Woodwork in Syria, Palestine and Egypt during the 12th and 13th century / Jonathan M. Bloom -- Smaller domes in the Haram Al-Sharif reconsidered in light of a recent survey / Michael Hamilton Burgoyne -- Ayyubid illustrated manuscripts and their north Jaziran and Abbasid neighbours / Anna Contadini -- Religious circles in Jerusalem in the Ayyubid period / Anne-Marie Eddé -- An ambiguous aesthetic : crusader Spolia in Ayyubid Jerusalem / Finbarr Barry Flood -- Ayyubid monuments in Jerusalem / Mahmoud Hawari -- Economic growth and currency in Ayyubid Palestine / Stefan Heidemann -- The Ayyubid Aqsa : decorative aspects / Robert Hillenbrand -- Eastern Christian art and culture in the Ayyubid and early Mamluk periods : cultural convergence between Jerusalem, Greater Syria and Egypt / Lucy-Anne Hunt -- Qur'ans and calligraphers of the Ayyubids and Zangids / David James -- From monastic cloisters to Sahn : the transformation of the open space of the Masjid Al-Aqsa under Saladin / Sabri Jarrah -- Ayyubid mosaics in Jerusalem / Lorenz Korn -- Ayyubid Jerusalem in perspective : the context of Ayyubid architecture in Bilad Al-Sham / Lorenz Korn -- The pottery of Ayyubid Jerusalem / Marcus Milwright -- Science as the handmaiden of power : science, art and technology in Ayyubid Syria / Martina Müller-Wiener -- Ayyubid architecture in Cairo / Bernard O'Kane -- The people of the book / Johannes Pahlitzsch -- Biographies of Ayyubid Sultans / D.S. Richards -- Ibn Wasil, historian of the Ayyubids / D.S. Richards -- An image of what once was : the Ayyubid fortifications of Jerusalem / Yasser Tabbaa.