Cairo to Kabul: Afghan and Islamic Studies

Ralph H. Pinder-Wilson, Warwick Ball, Leonard Harrow

ISBN 10: 1901764125 / ISBN 13: 9781901764123

Published by Melisende, London, 2002

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259 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm. Contents: A mirror on the soul: Persian architectural glass / Patricia Baker The towers of Ghur. A Ghurid 'Maginot Line'? / Warwick Ball The pillar and the pictures: an interpretation of the 'Diwan-i Khass' at Fathpur Sikri / Barbara Brend An anthropomorphic glass rhyton / Stefano Carboni Taking a stand / John Carswell Beasts that roared: the Pisa griffin and the New York lion / Anna Contadini, Richard Camber, Peter Northover The use of grey in ceramics of the world of Islam / Yolande Crowe Fragments of drawing and paintings from Fustat / Edmond de Unger Achaemenid Indian gold / David Fleming Between Ghazna and Dehli: Lahore and its lost 'manara' / Finbarr B. Flood A painted wooden lid in the al-Sabah Collection in Kuwait / Ernst J. Grube The Ghurid tomb at Herat / Robert Hillenbrand The sculptures of the pre-Islamic 'Haram' at Makka / Geoffrey King The Samarra Bowl with the half-palmette animals reconsidered / Jens Kröger The Armenians of Kabul and Afghanistan / Jonathan Lee The Rabatak inscription and the nameless Kushan king / David W. MacDowall "Pem Nem": a 16th century Dakani manuscript / David Matthews Islamic glass bracelets: some hints from Fustat / George Scanlon Princes and heroes of Bandar-i Taheri a late Qajar fort and the "Shahnama" / Jennifer Scarce A manuscript of Mir-Ali al-Katib: a poem on the duties of prayer / Annemarie Schimmel The oval agate plate of the book cover of the Bamberg Apocalypse / Avinoam Shalem The tomb of Ghiyath al-Din at Tughluquabad: pisé architecture of Afghanistan translated into stone in Delhi / Mehrdad Shokoohy, Natalie H. Shokoohy The illustrations of Baghdad 282 in the Topkapi Sarayi Library in Istanbul / Eleanor Sims The ethnogenesis of the Pashtuns / Willem Vogelsang Echoes in a landscape Western Afghanistan in 1989 / Bruce Wannell Two ivory plaques in the British Museum / Rachel Ward A note on Hedwig glasses / David Whitehouse.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Cairo to Kabul: Afghan and Islamic Studies
• Publisher: Melisende, London
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1901764125
• ISBN 13: 9781901764123
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Archaeology
  • Islam
  • Central Asia

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