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A superb example of the work being done in this field. The daunting task this book sets itself is clarified vividly and beautifully by innumerable, mostly colour photographs and ground plans. Among art forms, the book, with its calligraphy and miniature paintings, is supreme....Revealed here is a world of spiritual symbolism, technical virtuosity and silken colourful richness. (World of Interiors) Virtually all the masterpieces of Islamic art, among them the Alhambra, the Taj Mahal and the Tahmasp Shanama, were produced during the period from the Mongol conquests in the early 13th century to the advent of European colonial rule. In this beautiful book, conceived as a sequel to The Art and Architecture of Islam 650-1200, by Richard Ettinghausen and Oleg Grabar, the authors survey the architec-ture and arts of the traditional Islamic lands during this era and also investigate broader social and economic eontexts, considering such topics as function, patronage and meaning. Sheila Blair and Jonathan Bloom are a husband-and-wife team of independent scholars. blair is the author of the Monumental Inscriptions of Early Islamic Iran and Transoxiana and the co-author of Epic Images and Contemporary History: The Illustrations of the Great Mongol shahnama. Bloom is the author of Minaret: symbol of Islam. Both of them have thoght at several major universities. since 1987 they have been area editors for Islam and Western Central Asia for the Dictionary of Art. They live in rural New Hampshire with their two childern. ISBN: 81-85822-96-4
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