Libros de ARTE E HISTORIA DEL ISLAM

The Berbers, also known as Amazigh, are an ethnic group indigenous to North and West Africa. For hundreds of years, Berber tribes of Morocco have created intricate jewelry to adorn ...

This book is the story of an extraordinary survivor from the Alhambra palace in Granada, Spain: the Alhambra cupola, now in the Museum of Islamic Art in Berlin. The cupola, ...

Some of the most outstanding examples of world architecture, such as the Mosque of Córdoba, the ceiling of the Cappella Palatina in Palermo, the Giralda tower in Seville, and the ...

This handbook offers an overview of the main issues regarding the political, economic, social, religious, intellectual and artistic history of the Iberian Peninsula during the period of Muslim rule (eighth-fifteenth ...

This book retraces the human and intellectual development that has led renowned scholar François Burgat to one very firm conviction: that the roots of the tensions that afflict the Western ...

This groundbreaking study investigates the early architecture of the Fatimids, an Ismaili Shi'i Muslim dynasty that dominated the Mediterranean world from the 10th to the 12th century. This period, considered ...

En "El Jarrón árabe del Reino de Suecia", Rémi Labrusse recorre de modo fascinante la historia de uno de los escasos jarrones monumentales nazaríes conservados. Del Reino de Granada a ...

This groundbreaking volume examines the extraordinary artistic and cultural traditions of the African region known as the Sahel ('shore' in Arabic), a vast area on the southern edge of the ...

This kaleidoscopic book covers almost 3,000 years of Arab history and shines a light on the footloose Arab peoples and tribes who conquered lands and disseminated their language and culture ...

«Al-Andalus es el protagonista indiscutible de este libro. Es el corazón de la obra, como lo fue del islam medieval, junto al Mediterráneo, por siglos. Y desde al-Andalus diversas e ...

Revealing what is 'Islamic' in Islamic art, Shaw explores the perception of arts, including painting, music, and geometry through the discursive sphere of historical Islam including the Qur'an, Hadith, Sufism, ...

Spanning the Islamic world, from ninth-century Baghdad to nineteenth-century Iran, this book tells the story of the key Muslim map-makers and the art of Islamic cartography. Muslims were uniquely placed ...

From its birth in the 7th century through modern times, the Islamic religion has inspired glorious works of art. This stunning book includes more than four hundred reproductions of treasures ...

A stunning collection, accumulated over many years, of paintings, drawings and calligraphy of the highest quality mostly created for albums from the Safavid, Uzbek, Ottoman and Mughal Empires from the ...

Les questionnements relatifs aux nouvelles techniques de reproduction et de représentation nourrissent aujourd'hui bien des débats dans le domaine de la muséographie et de la conservation du patrimoine. Spécialiste de ...

Todays headlines paint the Middle East as a collection of war-torn countries and extremist groups consumed by sectarian rage. Ussama Makdisis Age of Coexistence reveals a hidden and hopeful story ...

Qu'est-ce que l'Histoire, sinon " une fable convenue " selon le mot de Fontenelle attribué à Napoléon ? Ainsi en va-t-il de la question berbère. Sous forme de chroniques thématiques, ...

In this broad yet sympathetic survey'ranging from the Crusades to the modern day'Martin Pugh explores the social, political, and cultural encounters between Britain and Islam. He looks, for instance, at ...

In this groundbreaking volume on the use of Islamic geometry in modern and contemporary art from the region, Roxane Zand and Sussan Babaie explore ways in which traditional geometric legacies ...

In two centuries of rule over Egypt and North Africa (969-1171CE), the Isma'ili Fatimids threatened Sunni hegemony in the Arab heartlands, yet left few historiographical records. Instead, it fell to ...