Islamic Patterns: An Analytical and Cosmological Approach

Critchlow, Keith

ISBN 10: 0500270716 / ISBN 13: 9780500270714

Published by W W Norton & Co Inc, 1983

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Softcover. Condition: Good. Clean, unmarked text with sun staining on covers and mottling on outer text block edges (see picture).

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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: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Dimensions: 21W x 26H x 1.2D centimeters 21 centimeters width by 26 centimeters height by 1.2 centimeters depth
• Weight: 656 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Religion

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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.