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Published by London : Al Tajir-World of Islam Trust, 1980
ISBN 10: 0905035283ISBN 13: 9780905035284
Seller: Joseph Burridge Books, Chadwell Heath, United Kingdom
Book
Soft cover. Condition: New. 33 p., [11] p. pl. : map ; 30 cm. Drawing on the work of Max van Berchen and nearly ten years of systematic checking between 1970 and 1979 the authors have combined a comprehensive list of inscriptions with maps of the Old City. This single, easily portable volume will add interest to and enhance a walk in the Old City. Some inscriptions are published here for the first time.
Published by London : Al Tajir-World of Islam Trust, 2002
ISBN 10: 1901435091ISBN 13: 9781901435092
Seller: Joseph Burridge Books, Chadwell Heath, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. 127 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 26 cm Contents: From Mamluks to Ottomans : history and heritage -- The city walls -- The role of Jerusalem in the Ottoman Levantine complex -- The role of the haram in Ottoman times -- The nature of Ottoman patronage in Jerusalem -- The practice of architecture in Ottoman Jerusalem -- Building types -- Architectural style in Ottoman Jerusalem : form, materials, technique and decoration.
Published by London : Al Tajir-World of Islam Trust, 1980
ISBN 10: 0905035291ISBN 13: 9780905035291
Seller: Joseph Burridge Books, Chadwell Heath, United Kingdom
Book First Edition Signed
Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 144 pages : illustrations ; 31 cm. Inscribed by author. spine is faded. Inscribed by Author(s).
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.
Published by London : Al Tajir World of Islam Trust, 2000
ISBN 10: 1901435032ISBN 13: 9781901435030
Seller: Joseph Burridge Books, Chadwell Heath, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. XXII, 655 pages & VI pages, 657-1168 pages: numerous illustrations, + 2 folded plans in a card sleeve : 31 cm. Housed in a red leather slipcase.