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xxi, 249 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 26 cm.
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Sifting Sands, Reading Signs: Studies in Honour of Professor Geza Fehervari
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London : Furnace Publishing, 2006
ISBN 10: 0955026601
ISBN 13: 9780955026607
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Soft cover
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Seller: Joseph Burridge Books, Dagenham, United Kingdom
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Soft cover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. xxi, 249 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 26 cm. Contents: Beauty in the eyes of al-Ghazali / Wijdan Ali Timur's Qur'an: a reappraisal / Sheila Blair, Jonathan M. Bloom A 'Khamsah' of Nizami of 1420 a stage on two journeys / Barbara Brend Kashf al-Asrar 'The disclosure of secrets' some thoughts on later Mamluk painting / Duncan Haldane Symbolism in the work of the Kuwaiti artist Thuraya al-Baqsami / Barbara Michalak-Pikulska The calligrapher-illuminator: the hybrid vigour / Nabil Safwat Ottoman poetry in Safavid garb: pictures in a 'Diwan' of Mahmud Abd al-Baki / Eleanor Sims Two Ghaznavid way-stations and some 'platteresque' refurbishment / A.D.H. Bivar The cenotaph in Imamzada Habib b. Musa, Kashan: does it mark the grave of Shah Abbas I? / Javad Golmohammadi The Qubbat al-Sulaybiyya and its interpretation / Alastair Northedge Early Bahmani Mihrabs in Gulbarga, Deccan / Helen Philon The Solomonic theme in the decorative and epigraphical programmes of the Dome of the Rock / Raya Y. Shani The Indian 'Idgah and its Persian prototype: the 'Namazgah' or 'Musalla' / Mehrdad Shokoohy, Natalie H. Shokoohy Karaite origins in Lithuania and in Poland, according to Professor Seraja Shapsala / Harry T. Norris Blossoms and pomegranates: silk embroideries of the Ottoman Empire / Penny Oakley The marsh Arabs of Iraq a memoir of their life, their dwellings and their embroideries / Jehan Rajab Persian carpet design in the 16th and 17th centuries: creativity and practicalities / Jennifer Wearden A late Mamluk oil lamp in the Hungarian National Museum / Doris Behrens-Abouseif Narcissism or catoptromancy? mirrors from the medieval eastern Islamic world / Stefano Carboni Some liberated Persian figures on Safavid blue and white ceramics / Yolande Crowe From Mashu to Qaf: the iconography of a Minai bowl / Abbas Daneshvari A magic bowl from India in the Tareq Rajab Museum / Alexander Fodor Ottoman rings in the collections of the Hungarian National Museum / Ibolya Gerelyes Pomegranates, lychees, or loquats: an offering of Timurid-Chinese fruits / Ernst J. Grube The Islamic re-working of the Sasanian heritage: two case studies / Robert Hillenbrand Lustre waters: attribution, provenance and art-historical politics / Oliver Watson. Seller Inventory # 18jbew830