God is beautiful and loves beauty : the object in Islamic art and culture /
God is beautiful and loves beauty : the object in Islamic art and culture / edited by Sheila Blair and Jonathan Bloom. - New Haven [Connecticut] : Qatar : Yale University Press ; In association with the Qatar Foundation, Virginia Commonwealth University, and Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts in Qatar, [2013] - xi, 389 p. : ill. (chiefly color) ; 30 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
I.M. Pei and the Challenge of the Modern -- The Galleries of the Museum of Islamic Art, Doha -- Twenty Leaves from the Tashkent Koran -- Three Stucco Panels from Samarra -- Two Capitals from Madinat-al-Zahra -- The Most Authoritative Copy of Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi's Guide to the Constellations -- Three Ceramic Vessels from Medieval Islamic Times -- The Biography of a Thirteenth-century Brass Ewer from Mosul -- A Mamluk Enameled Bucket and Experiments in Glass Productions -- Seven Woven Silk Tent Panels from the Mongol Period -- An Early Anatolian Animal Carpet and Related Examples -- An Ottoman Murakkaa and the Birth of the International Style -- Five Folios from the Jahangir Album -- Six Seventeenth-Century Oil Painting from Safavid Persia.
9780300196665 (hbk. : alk. paper) 0300196660 (hbk. : alk. paper)
Islamic art objects--Congresses.
Art and society--Islamic countries--Congresses.
NK720 / .B54 2011
Includes bibliographical references and index.
I.M. Pei and the Challenge of the Modern -- The Galleries of the Museum of Islamic Art, Doha -- Twenty Leaves from the Tashkent Koran -- Three Stucco Panels from Samarra -- Two Capitals from Madinat-al-Zahra -- The Most Authoritative Copy of Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi's Guide to the Constellations -- Three Ceramic Vessels from Medieval Islamic Times -- The Biography of a Thirteenth-century Brass Ewer from Mosul -- A Mamluk Enameled Bucket and Experiments in Glass Productions -- Seven Woven Silk Tent Panels from the Mongol Period -- An Early Anatolian Animal Carpet and Related Examples -- An Ottoman Murakkaa and the Birth of the International Style -- Five Folios from the Jahangir Album -- Six Seventeenth-Century Oil Painting from Safavid Persia.
9780300196665 (hbk. : alk. paper) 0300196660 (hbk. : alk. paper)
Islamic art objects--Congresses.
Art and society--Islamic countries--Congresses.
NK720 / .B54 2011