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Trade Paperback : $35.00 Buy	Contemporary Arab Women's Art Dialogues of the Present Edited by Fran Lloyd I.B. Tauris This book offers a unique opportunity to explore contemporary Arab art by women. The volume collects 18 Arab women artists from around the world to challenge...

Hardcover : $107.00 Buy	Palestine and Egypt Under the Ottomans Paintings, Books, Photographs, Maps and Manuscripts Hisham Khatib I.B. Tauris Palestine and Egypt under the Ottomans is based on a unique collection of art and printed material covering the 400 year period of Ottoman rule in the region....

Trade Paperback : $43.00 Buy	Picturing Iran Art, Society and Revolution Shiva Balaghi and Lynn Gumpert I.B. Tauris This book assesses modern Iranian visual culture from the 1960’s and 1970’s and suggests that modernity in Iran was a creative, complex, and...

Trade Paperback : $23.00 Buy	The Monument Art and Vulgarity in Saddam Hussein's Iraq Kanan Makiya I.B. Tauris In Baghdad, an enormous monument nearly twice the size of the Arc de Triomphe towers over the city. Two huge forearms emerge from the ground, clutching two...

Hardcover : $100.00 Buy	Metalwork of the Islamic World The Aron Collection James Allan Philip Wilson Publishers The catalogue begins with five informative introductory essays in which James Allan discusses Islamic metalwork produced in the Mediterranean area and in the...

Hardcover : $58.00 Buy	The Eagle's Nest Ismaili Castles in Iran and Syria Peter Willey Institute for Ismaili Studies Magnificent castles and fortresses in remote, mountainous regions were built for refuge and defensive purposes by the Ismaili Muslims of Iran and Syria fleeing...

Trade Paperback : $20.00 Buy	Sinan Makers of Islamic Civilization Makers of Islamic Civilization J.M. Rogers I.B. Tauris In this concise and readable overview, J. M. Rogers considers the life, architecture and influence of the "Great Architect Sinan" (1489-1588). Sinan is...

Hardcover : $79.00 Buy	Cairo of the Mamluks A History of Architecture and its Culture Doris Behrens-Abouseif I.B. Tauris The Arab philosopher Ibn Khaldun described Cairo under the Mamluks as "a city beyond imagination". The Mamluk sultans originated as a...

Hardcover : $58.00 Buy	Domains of Influence Arab Women Business Leaders in a New Economy Jacqueline Hassink I.B. Tauris This remarkable collection of photographic ‘portraits’ of leading businesswomen from right across the Arab world is a unique testament to the impact made on...

Trade Paperback : $16.00 Buy	The Minaret of Djam An Excursion in Afghanistan The Freya Stark Collection Freya Stark Tauris Parke Paperbacks Freya Stark traveled the difficult and often dangerous journey from Kabul to Kandahar and Herat in search of one of Afghanistan’s most celebrated treasures,...

Hardcover : $96.00 Buy	The Art and Material Culture of Iranian Shi'ism Iconography and Religious Devotion in Shi'i Islam International Library of Iranian Studies Pedram Khosronejad I.B. Tauris Shi'i Islam has been the official religion of Iran from the Safavids (1501-1732) to the present day. The Shi'i world experience has provided a rich artistic...

Hardcover : $92.00 Buy	The Safavid Dynastic Shrine Architecture, Religion and Power in Early Modern Iran British Institute of Persian Studies Kishwar Rizvi Tauris Academic Studies The Safavid period represents an immensely rich chapter in the history of Iranian architecture. In this discussion of Safavid architecture in the context of...

Hardcover : $96.00 Buy	Art and Architecture in the Islamic Tradition Aesthetics, Politics and Desire in Early Islam Library of Modern Middle East Studies Mohammed Hamdouni Alami Tauris Academic Studies What is "art" in the sense of the Islamic tradition? Mohammed Hamdouni Alami argues that Islamic art has historically been excluded from Western notions of...

Hardcover : $80.00 Buy	Mamluk History Through Architecture Monuments, Culture and Politics in Medieval Egypt and Syria Library of Middle East History Nasser Rabbat I.B. Tauris The most enduring testament to the Mamluk Sultanate is its architecture. Not only do Mamluk buildings embody one of the most outstanding medieval...

Hardcover : $95.00 Buy	Islamic Architecture in Iran Poststructural Theory and the Architectural History of Iranian Mosques International Library of Iranian Studies #34 Saeid Khaghani Tauris Academic Studies The architecture of the Islamic world is predominantly considered in terms of a dual division between "tradition" and "modernity" - a division which, Saeid...

Hardcover : $100.00 Buy	Crafts and Craftsmen of the Middle East Fashioning the Individual in the Muslim Mediterranean Islamic Mediterranean Series #4 Edited by Randi Deguilhem and Suraiya Faroqhi I.B. Tauris This volume presents research on craft workers within and outside the guild structure from the modern and contemporary Mediterranean world. Several of the...

Trade Paperback : $33.00 Buy	Twelve Photographic Journeys Iran in the Twenty-First Century Edited by Anahita Ghabaian and Minou Saberi I.B. Tauris This book explores, through the vision of ten contemporary Iranian photographers, the contrasts and contradictions that exist in Iranian Society at the...

Hardcover : $84.00 Buy	Persian Steel Masterpieces of Iranian Art James Allan I.B. Tauris Persian Steel focuses on the collection of Persian steel objects assembled by the well-known Iranian sculptor Parviz Tanavoli and illustrates why metalwork has...

Hardcover : $95.00 Buy	The Sultan's Procession The Swedish Embassy to Sultan Mehmed IV in 1657-1658 and the Rålamb Paintings Edited by Karin Ådahl I.B. Tauris/Swedish Research - Istanbul In 1657 King Charles X Gustaf of Sweden sent Claes Rålamb as an envoy to Sultan Mehmed IV’s court. While he was there Rålamb commissioned 20 large paintings in...

Hardcover : $89.00 Buy	Reinventing Jerusalem Israel's Reconstruction of the Jewish Quarter after 1967 Library of Modern Middle East Studies Simone Ricca I.B. Tauris The Jewish quarter of Jerusalem today seems like an organic fusion of a modern Israeli city with an ancient Jewish heritage. However, as Simone Ricca details...

Trade Paperback : $26.00 Buy	Intervention Architecture Building for Change Aga Khan Foundation; Introduction by Homi Bhabha I.B. Tauris Since its inception in 1977, the Aga Khan Award for Architecture has recognised almost 100 projects that have set new standards of excellence in architecture,...

Hardcover : $95.00 Buy	Sacred Script Muhaqqaq in Islamic Calligraphy Nassar Mansour I.B. Tauris Arabic calligraphy is at once an expression of piety, aesthetic sensibility and artistic discipline. Muhaqqaq was an early term which captured care, clarity...

Trade Paperback : $32.00 Buy	Artisans of Empire Crafts and Craftspeople Under the Ottomans Suraiya Faroqhi I.B. Tauris The manufacture and trade in crafted goods and the men and women who were involved in this industry -- including metalworkers, ceramicists, silk weavers,...

Hardcover : $105.00 Buy	Ferdowsi, the Mongols and the History of Iran Art, Literature and Culture from Early Islam to Qajar Persia Edited By Robert Hillenbrand, A.C.S. Peacock and Firuza Abdullaeva I.B. Tauris Iran's rich cultural heritage has been shaped over many centuries by its colorful and highly dramatic history. This impressive book, which assembles...

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