Islamic Patterns: An Analytical and Cosmological Approach (First Edition, Review Copy)

Keith Critchlow

ISBN 10: 0805236279 / ISBN 13: 9780805236279

Published by Schocken, New York, 1976

About this Item

REVIEW COPY, preceding the First Edition, with publisher's slips laid in. Residue from an old price sticker on the jacket heel, else Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket.

Seller Inventory # 168578

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Islamic Patterns: An Analytical and Cosmological Approach (First Edition, Review Copy)
• Publisher: Schocken, New York
• Publication Date: 1976
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0805236279
• ISBN 13: 9780805236279
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Dust Jacket Condition: dj
• Seller catalogs:
  • Architecture
  • Religion and Spirituality
  • Nonfiction

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Synopsis

Islamic art has long been misunderstood in the West as no more than decoration. This study explains how the geometrical patterns of Islamic art reveal intrinsic cosmological laws. The primary function of the patterns is to lead the mind from the literal world towards the underlying reality.

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.