Treasures of Islam: Artistic Glories of the Muslim WorldTreasures of Islam presents a vivid portrait of the culturalheritage of Islam and its great treasures - an illuminatingcommentary places the creations of Muslim craftspeople in the appropriate geographical, historical and artistic contexts and explains the significance of the faith?s use of colour andtexture, through calligraphy, sculpture, architecture and manyother art forms. Although Islam is the most recent of the majormonotheistic traditions to have emerged, it has produced oneof the most glorious cultural legacies of any of the great faiths.For more than a millennium Islam?s faithful followers havecreated a rich legacy of sacred art and architecture, from lucid religious texts to some of the most spiritually upliftingbuildings ever constructed. |
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Abbasid Akbar al-Din al-Hakam al-Hakam II al-Walid Alhambra Almohads Anatolia arabesques Arabic arcades arches artists Ayyubids Baghdad Bernard O'Kane Book of Kings building built Byzantine Cairo caliph Cangökçe capital caravanserais carved central ceramics Chinese Christian colors complex Córdoba court courtyard Damascus decoration Delhi dome chamber dynasty earlier early Egypt entrance examples façade Fatimid finest Herat Ilkhanid illustration Imam India inlaid inscriptions interior Iran Iranian Isfahan Islamic architecture Islamic art Islamic world Istanbul iwan Iznik Jahangir Jalayirid lions Madina madrasa Maghreb Mamluk manuscripts marble Marinids mausoleum Mecca medallions mihrab minaret Mongol monuments mosaic motifs Mughal Muhammad muqarnas Muslim Nasrids octagonal OPPOSITE original Ottoman palace patron pavilions Persian pottery prayer hall Prophet qibla qibla wall Quran reign religious royal ruled ruler Safavid Samarra Sasanian Seljuk Shah Jahan Shi'i Sinan Spain stucco style Sufis Sultan Hasan Syria Tabriz tiles tilework Timur Timurid tomb Turkish Umayyad vizier که