Libros de ARTE E HISTORIA DEL ISLAM

Los jardines de al-Andalus ocupan un lugar relevante en la historia de la cultura. Junto a sus valores intrínsecos se añade que algunos de ellos son los cultivos ornamentales más ...

An enjoyable introduction to the excellent work of Muslim artists and artisans through the ages. Islamic art in the Gulf region flourished as Islam spread out in the neighboring countries ...

Proclaim the pilgrimage to all people. They will come on foot and on the backs of swift camels from distant corners of the earth. Quran, surat al-Hajj vs 27-30 It ...

This is the fourth and final volume of the Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, which describes the final part of the so-called New Fund, andthat completes ...

The Ottoman empire as a political entity comprised most of the present Middle East (with the principal exception of Iran), north Africa and south-eastern Europe. For over 500 years, until ...

"El libro de los reyes" (Shahnameh) es una de las obras maestras de la literatura universal. Escrita por Hakim Abdul-Qasim Firdusi entre finales del siglo X y comienzos del XI, ...

Proclaim the pilgrimage to all people. They will come on foot and on the backs of swift camels from distant corners of the earth. Quran, surat al-Hajj vs 27-30 It ...

The first eleven essays in this collection treat the application of Islamic law in qadi courts in the Maghrib in the period between 1100 and 1500 CE. Based on preserved ...

The Koran uses the phrase 'and diverse are their hues' to describe the glorious chromatic variety of God's creation. Colour has always been an important signifier in Islamic art, and ...

Par son ampleur, par la richesse exceptionnelle de sa documentation photographique, réalisée par Alexandre Orloff, en mission pour l'Unesco, par l'autorité, le style souverain et enjoué de son auteur, Salah ...

The use of perspective in Renaissance painting caused a revolution in the history of seeing, allowing artists to depict the world from a spectator's point of view. But the theory ...

During the first half of the twentieth century, the pilgrimage of Muslims to Mecca lay at the heart of the relationship between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Kingdom ...

This volume explores the architectural features and urban character of Harat al-Bilad, the principal settlement of Manah, an important oasis of central Oman. Originally a frontier settlement, Harat al-Bilad straddles ...

The ceiling paintings in the Hall of Justice of the Alhambra have not received serious scholarly attention for the past thirty years, perhaps due to their difficult incorporation into a ...

Si tu as loccasion de passer une journée au Maroc, passe-là à Marrakech " dit le proverbe marocain. " Si tu ne disposes que dune heure, rends-toi sur la place ...

Unprecedented in its range - extending from Venice to the New World and from the Holy Roman Empire to the Ottoman Empire - this collection is the first book in ...

This catalogue is the first on the outstanding collection of Arabic and Persian seals and amulets in the British Museum, by a specialist in the field. The first part focuses ...

This volume reprints nineteen articles that deal with the formation of the first Islamic state under the "rightly-guided" and Umayyad caliphs (632-750 CE). The articles (five of which originally appeared ...

The burqa debate is making headlines throughout Europe, including France, Belgium, Spain and Italy. In this timely book, Sara Silvestri argues that it is time to move beyond the burqa ...

This original book untangles fundamental confusions about historical relationships among Islam, representational images, and philosophy. Closely examining some of the most meaningful and best preserved premodern illustrated manuscripts of Islamic ...