Oriental treasures in the Mediterranean: from Damascus to Granada

Oriental treasures in the Mediterranean: from Damascus to Granada

"The more than 400 color photographs in this book, edited by Henry Stierlin, an expert on Near and Middle Eastern cultures from prehistoric times to our days, illustrate the magnificent works produced by the dynasties that have written Islamic history for more than a millennium: the Umayyads, Abbasids, Turkish Seljuks, Fatimids, Ayyubids, Mamluks of Cairo, Aghlabids of Kairouan, Almoads and Merinids of Morocco, Nasrids of Granada, and the Ottomans of Istanbul."--Jacket.

Henri Stierlin

Vercelli : White Star

2005

Series: Timeless treasures

The common origins -- The rise of Islam -- Classical architecture : the Umayyads and Abbasids -- The Seljuks in Anatolia -- From Egypt to Ifriqiya and Morocco -- From the Ayyubids to the Mamluks -- From Andalusia to Morocco : the Nasrids and Marinids -- The apogee of the Ottomans : Sinan and Suleyman the Magnificent -- Ten extraordinary monuments.

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