Product Description: This, the second of two volumes devoted to Qur'an manuscripts produced in the period after 1600, covers the Ottoman Empire and the 19th century in Iran. It contains original, groundbreaking essays and entries on some 70 fine examples, revealing the period to be one of sumptuous brilliance and intellectual innovation...read more

Product Description: In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the Ottoman Empire was one of the world’s great powers. Generations of travelers—explorers, traders, tourists, scientists, artists—were drawn to these magical lands. Whether depictions of contemporary life in the bustling street, the court, the harem, or elegiac evocations of the ruins of antiquity, the hundred images selected here by artists from David Roberts and Edward Lear to John Frederick Lewis bring a largely vanished world vividly to life...read more

Product Description: The Victoria and Albert Museum owns one of the most respected Islamic art collections in the world, housed in the newly created Jameel Gallery. In this fascinating book, members of the team who worked on the project describe the history of the gallery and its collections, the curatorial processes involved in configuring the displays, and the creation of an exciting design for the gallery...read more

Product Description: Produced for the Association Internationale de Bibliophilie, this book traces the development of the early Ottoman style under influence from their neighbors; the impact of the patronage of Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror; and the development of the "classical" style under his successor Bayezid II...read more

Product Description: The 26 Oriental manuscripts (41 treatises) now at St John's College, Oxford, reflect the varying ways in which Europeans have sought to make themselves familiar with the cultures of the East. Acquired during the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries most are Arabic or Persian, but there are also Syriac, Hebrew, Turkish, Ethiopic, and Gujarati items...read more

Product Description: The Nasser D. Khalili Collection is the greatest collection of Islamic art in private hands.It contains the largest and most important holdings of Islamic lacquer in the world.The production of Islamic lacquerware, in which papier-mache and wooden penboxes, bookbindings, mirror cases and other objects were decorated in a technique of painting and varnishing, flourished in Iran, India and Turkey in the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries...read more

Product Description: This, the first of the two volumes devoted to Qur'an manuscripts produced in the period after 1600, deals mainly with Ottoman, Iranian, and Indian Qur'ans of the 17th and 18th centuries, but also includes material from China and North and East Africa...read more

Presents an overview of Islamic art, featuring examples of paintings, ceramics, textiles, calligraphy, and other works from the collections at the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Product Description: The Nasser D. Khalili Collection contains an enormous number of historically important objects relating to the fields of Islamic science in astrology, astronomy, medicine, and magic. This volume brings all these subjects together, and provides fascinating insight into the traditions and innovations of scholars and scientists in Islamic cultures...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)