Momentous developments occurred in the field of Islamic art during the 11th and 12th centuries - developments that were to affect its aesthetic direction for centuries to come, but which sprang from deep within a political and religious clash at the heart of the Muslim world. Iran, Iraq and Syria were to see the flourishing of such devises as proportional calligraphy, vegetal and geometric arabesque and muqarnas (stalactite) vaulting, but these innovations were propagated in a highly confrontational atmosphere that pitched ...
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Momentous developments occurred in the field of Islamic art during the 11th and 12th centuries - developments that were to affect its aesthetic direction for centuries to come, but which sprang from deep within a political and religious clash at the heart of the Muslim world. Iran, Iraq and Syria were to see the flourishing of such devises as proportional calligraphy, vegetal and geometric arabesque and muqarnas (stalactite) vaulting, but these innovations were propagated in a highly confrontational atmosphere that pitched the traditional Sunnism of the Abbasid Caliphate against the heterodox Fatimids of Egypt. Yasser Tabbaa, examining the semiotic interplay between history and art, challenges the conventional methodologies of many historians of Islamic art today.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. -very minor shelfwear-ow near new condition-Clean bright tight book in untorn dustwrapper 210 pages. Large 8vo. In Very Good Dustwrapper.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has soft covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 800grams, ISBN: 9780295981338.
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Fine in Very Good jacket. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2002. A clean, crisp copy. First printing. Full black cloth binding. 210pp. Richly illustrated. Dust jacket has some shelf wea, now in a new mylar cover. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 4to-over 9"-12" Tall.