Islamic Art and Architecture: 650–1250

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BOOKIslamic Art and Architecture: 650–1250Richard Ettinghausen, Oleg Grabar, Marilyn Jenkins-Madina https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00202 Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-20102Copy Yale University Press/Pelican History of ArtThis classic book provides an unsurpassed overview of Islamic art and architecture from the seventh to the thirteenth centuries, a time of the formation of a new artistic culture and its first flowering in the vast area from the Atlantic to India. The volume focuses special attention on the development of numerous regional centers of art in Spain, North Africa, Egypt, Syria, Anatolia, Iraq, and Yemen, as well as the western and northeastern provinces of Iran. It traces the cultural and artistic evolution of such centers in the seminal early Islamic period and examines the wealth of different ways of creating a beautiful environment and provides new classifications of architecture and architectural decoration, the art of the object, and the art of the book.*This eBook is available exclusively on the A&AePortal*AuthorRichard Ettinghausen, Oleg Grabar, Marilyn Jenkins-MadinaPublisherYale University PressPrint publication date February 2002 (in print)Print ISBN 9780300088670EISBN 9780300256031Copyright© 2001 Oleg Grabar, Elizabeth Ettinghausen, and Marilyn Jenkins-MadinaIllustrations 501Print Status in print Publisher (in print) WorldCat Google Books

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