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God is beautiful and loves beauty : the object in Islamic art and culture / edited by Sheila Blair and Jonathan Bloom.

By: (4th : Biennial Hamad bin Khalifa Symposium on Islamic Art (4th : 2011 : Dawḥah, Qatar)Contributor(s): Blair, Sheila | Bloom, Jonathan (Jonathan M.) | Museum of Islamic Art (Dawḥah, Qatar)Material type: TextTextPublication details: 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] Description: xi, 389 p. : ill. (chiefly color) ; 30 cmISBN: 9780300196665 (hbk. : alk. paper); 0300196660 (hbk. : alk. paper)Subject(s): Islamic art objects -- Congresses | Art and society -- Islamic countries -- CongressesLOC classification: NK720 | .B54 2011
Contents:
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{mlrhring} -- The Most Authoritative Copy of {mllhring}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.
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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{mlrhring} -- The Most Authoritative Copy of {mllhring}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.

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