Islamic Art and Architecture: From Isfahan to the Taj Mahal

Islamic Art and Architecture: From Isfahan to the Taj Mahal

This album of the greatest Islamic art and architecture of Iran and India explores and celebrates cities from Tabriz to Khiva, Lahore to Sikandra. It offers a key to understanding the immense heritage left by hundreds of architects, landscape gardeners, calligraphers, miniaturists and weavers.

Henri Stierlin

London ; New York, N.Y. : Thames & Hudson

2002

Photographs by Anne and Henri Stierlin

pt. I. History and Art -- The Spread of the Persian Style from Isfahan to the Taj Mahal -- 1. The Rebirth of Iran -- 2. Muslims in India and Mongols in Iran -- 3. Samarqand and the Masterworks of the Timurids -- 4. The Evolution of the Mughal Style from Babur to Akbar -- 5. Architecture, Manuscript Painting and Carpets in Bukhara and under the Early Safavids -- 6. The Flowering of Safavid Iran: the Masterpieces of Isfahan -- 7. Jahangir and Shah Jahan: the Great Age of the Mughals -- 8. The Last Creations: Late Iran, the Khanate of Khiva, Aurangzeb, and the Rajputs -- Postscript: the Primacy of Architecture in the 'Persianized' World -- pt. II. Key Monuments in the Persian Style -- The Origins of Muslim Iran: History and Culture 622-900.

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