Published on the occasion of the exhibition The Art of the Qur'an: Treasures from the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts, Istanbul, held at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington, D.C., October 15, 2016-February 20, 2017.
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Published on the occasion of the exhibition The Art of the Qur'an: Treasures from the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts, Istanbul, held at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington, D.C., October 15, 2016-February 20, 2017.
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New. Size: 9x1x13; New. Clean, unmarked pages. Fine binding and cover. Softcover. "Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name at the Freer Sackler Galleries at the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, DC, this volume succeeds in giving a thorough overview of the history of the Qur'an and the role of Qur'anic text in Islamic societies from the late seventh through the 17th centuries. Accompanying essays from experts with academic, museum, and library backgrounds cover a historiography of the topic, a history of collecting and exhibiting Qur'ans, and the evolution of and regional distinctions in materials, layouts, and styles (in calligraphy and in illumination and ornamentation). Though dry at times, the writing is clear and easy to follow. The catalog's 67 entries include beautiful photographs of the items (Qur'ans, Qur'an chests, and Qur'an stands) alongside detailed item descriptions. A glossary is included. VERDICT Students and experts of Islamic history, religious studies, and Islamic art will find this work extremely useful and will delight in its comprehensive nature. Essential for academic and art libraries, but not a necessary purchase for public libraries."-Jennifer Naimzadeh, Library Journal. 9781588345783 1588345785 9780934686402 0934686408. This is an oversized or heavy book, which WILL require additional postage for international delivery outside the US.
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Good+ in a Very Good dust jacket; Hardcover; Withdrawn library copy with the standard library markings; Dust jacket is clean and intact with no tears, and has not been price-clipped (Now fitted with a new, Brodart jacket protector); Light wear to the boards; Library stamps to endpapers; Text pages clean & unmarked; Excellent binding with a straight spine; This book will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Extra-Large Format (Folio, 12.75"-14" tall); 6.7 lbs (Heavy); Blue and gold Islamic geometric design art to dust jacket, with title in white lettering along the spine; 2016, Smithsonian Books; 384 pages; "The Art of the Qur'an: Treasures from the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts, " by Massumeh Farhad, et al.
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Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket; Hardcover; Dust jacket is clean and intact with no tears, and has not been price-clipped (Now fitted with a new, Brodart jacket protector); Light wear to the boards; The textblock edges are unblemished; The endpapers and all text pages are clean and unmarked; The binding is excellent with a straight spine; This book will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Large Format (11.75"-12.75" tall); 6.7 lbs (Heavy); Blue and gold Islamic geometric design art to dust jacket, with title in white lettering along the spine; 2016, Smithsonian Books; 384 pages; "The Art of the Qur'an: Treasures from the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts, " by Massumeh Farhad, et al.
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VG+: Exlibrary book in great condition. Ownership stamp on the half-title page and top text block. The book has clean pages and tight binding. It looks like it has rarely, if ever, been taken from the shelf. A blue cloth hardcover book with the title embossed down the spine. There is a color-illustrated dust jacket, with the title printed in white down a black spine. The headband is blue and white. The front and back free and pasted end pages are a vibrant blue. Pages: (7), 8-382. Contains approximately 260 color and black-and-white illustrations. This story unfolds in Qur'ans from the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts, the companion publication to the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery's groundbreaking exhibition, the first major presentation of Qur'ans in the United States. The book's authors describe the formation of this one-of-a-kind collection and the history of TIEM, whose centuries-old records on patrons, calligraphers, illuminators, and provenance allow us to create "biographies" detailing the production of the Qur'ans in the exhibition. Essays address the Qur'an as a written text--from content and organization to the elaborate calligraphy and illuminated designs that transformed the volumes into beautiful artworks. Qur'ans also includes in-depth descriptions of some seventy works from TIEM and the Smithsonian's Sackler and Freer Galleries. It features full-page, color images of the earliest known Qur'an folios and manuscripts from the Umayyad and Abbasid Near East (7th-10th century), Seljuk Iran and Anatolia (12th century), the Mongol Il-Khanid and Timurid empires and Mamluk Cairo (14th and 15th centuries), Safavid and Ottoman empires (16th and 17th centuries) as well as a number of mosque furnishings, such as Qur'an boxes and stands. Most of these works have rarely, if ever, been published.
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Very Good-in Very Good-dust jacket. 1588345785. Slight shelf wear to the spine edges and corners. The dust jacket has some wear to the edges.; 9.7 X 1.5 X 13.3 inches; 384 pages.
