The Formation of Islamic Art
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1973
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780300021875
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The problem; title: The land of early Islam; title: The symbolic appropriation of the land; title: Islamic attitudes toward the arts; title: Islamic religious art : the mosque; title: Islamic secular art : palace and city; title: Early Islamic decoration : the idea of an Arabesque; title: The formation of Islamic art; title: Appendix : Chronology of the early Muslim world