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A group of renowned scholars, collectors, artists, and curators grapple with the challenging notion of defining "Islamic art."

Copublished by UNESCO, combines a geographical and a chronological survey of Islamic art. Surveys the architecture from Iran to China, the Maghreb to India; and

They discuss, for example, how the universal caliphs of the first six centuries gave way to regional rulers and how, in this new world order, Iranian forms, tec

An alternate approach to Islamic art emphasizing literary over historical contexts and reception over production in visual arts and music.

This richly illustrated book provides an unsurpassed overview of Islamic art and architecture from the seventh to the thirteenth centuries, a time of the format