The Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts
Subtitle: thirteen centuries of glory from the Umayyads to the Ottomans
By: Seracettin Şahin
Contributors: Türk ve İslâm Eserleri Müzesi
Publisher: Blue Dome Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9781935295020
Subjects: Catalogs; Islamic art; Decorative arts; Turkish Art; Türk ve İslâm Eserleri Müzesi
Description: "This album presents the best samples from among a large inventory of forty thousand pieces of Islamic art in the The Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts in Istanbul, Turkey, that represent not only Seljuk and Ottoman empires but also Umayyads, Abbasids, Andalusia, Safavid Empire, and other Muslim states and civilisations across North Africa and Caucasia." -- From Book Dust Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 367-370) and index.
Table of contents: title: The Umayyads; title: The Abbasids; title: The Fatimids; title: The Great Seljuks; title: The Zangids; title: Ayyubids; title: North Africa and Spain; title: The Artuks; title: Anatolian Seljuks; title: The period of Anatolian Princedoms; title: Mamluks; title: The Ilkhanids; title: The Timurids; title: The Turkmen states : Karakoyunlu and Akkoyunlu; title: The Ottomans; title: The Safavids (Iran); title: The Qajars; title: Ethnography.