Research Catalog

Title

The art and architecture of Islam 650-1250 / Richard Ettinghausen and Oleg Grabar.

Author

Ettinghausen, Richard

Publication

Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England ; New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Penguin Books, 1987.

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Additional Authors

• Grabar, Oleg
• Blair, Sheila.

Description

448 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Series Statement

Pelican history of art

Uniform Title

• Pelican history of art
• Pelican history of art.

Subject

• Islamic architecture
• Islamic art
• Islamic visual arts, ca 420-ca 1340

Genre/Form

• book jackets.
• Imitation leather bindings.
• paperbacks.
• Typefaces.
• History

Note

• Continued by: The art and architecture of Islam 1250-1800 / Sheila S. Blair and Jonathan M. Bloom. New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, 1994. (Yale University Press Pelican history of art).
• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. [415]-428.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Part I. The Caliphate. 1. The rise of Islam and the artistic climate of the period ; 2. The Umayyads and their art: 650-750. The Dome of the Rock. Early congregational mosques. The mosques of al-Walid. Secular buildings. The decorative arts ; 3. The Abbasid tradition: 750-950. Architecture and architectural decoration. The decorative arts. The art of the book. Painting -- Part II. The breakdown of the Caliphate. 4. The Muslim West: 750-1260. Architecture. The Umayyads of Spain: 750-1009, North Africa and Spain: 1009-1260. The decorative arts ; 5. The Fatimids in North Africa and Egypt: 910-1171. Architecture. North Africa, Egypt until 1060, Egypt: 1060-1171. The decorative arts ; 6. Iran and Central Asia: 800-1025. Architecture. Mosques, Mausoleums, Secular buildings. The decorative arts. Painting -- Part III. The eleventh to thirteenth centuries. 7. Architecture. Iran and Central Asia. The monuments. Mosques, Mausoleums, Towers and minarets, Secular architecture. Materials and techniques of construction. Materials, Vaults and domes, The minaret, the Pishtaq, The Court with Four Iwans. Architectural decoration. Techniques, Themes. Conclusions. India. Iraq. Northern Mesopotamia. Syria and Egypt. The monuments, Construction and decoration. Anatolia. The monuments, Construction and decoration. Conclusions ; 8. The decorative arts. General remarks, Decorative themes, Technical complexity, The Turks, The arts of the book. Iran. Textiles, Metalwork, Pottery and tiles, The arts of the book. Iraq and the Jazira. Syria. Woodwork, Metalwork, Pottery, Glass, Manuscript illustration. Anatolia.

ISBN

• 0140560599
• 0140561595 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^86062813^//r93

OCLC

16847656

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library