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Bibliographic Details

Title: Islamic Patterns: An Analytical and Cosmological Approach
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
Publication Date: 1983
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0500270716
ISBN 13: 9780500270714
Binding: Soft cover
Edition: 1st Edition
Condition: Fair

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Synopsis

A philosophical and interpretive analysis of the geometrical patterns of Islamic art, explaining their inseparability from mystical mathematics and, with the aid of nearly two hundred drawings, their reflection of the cosmological laws affecting all creation

About the Author

Keith Critchlow is Director of Research and Director of Visual Islamic and Traditional Arts at the Prince of Wales Institute of Architecture. An internationally known lecturer on Islamic art, he is the author of Pythagorean Geometry. He lives in England.

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