Author: Abu-'r-Raiḥān Muḥammad Ibn-Aḥmad al- Bīrūnī
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780598801746
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
The Chronology of Ancient Nations, an English Version of the Arabic Text of the Athar-Ul-Bakiya of Albiruni
Author: Abu-'r-Raiḥān Muḥammad Ibn-Aḥmad al- Bīrūnī
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780598801746
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780598801746
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Chronology of Ancient Nations
Author: Abu-'r-Raiḥān Muḥammad Ibn-Aḥmad al- Bīrūnī
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Calendar, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 483
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Calendar, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 483
Book Description
The Chronology of Ancient Nations
Author: Al Biruni
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780849016240
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780849016240
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Studies in the Islamic Arts of the Book
Author: Robert Hillenbrand
Publisher: Pindar Press
ISBN: 1915837146
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 567
Book Description
The studies collected in this volume, some of them rather difficult of access, date mostly from the last fifteen years and focus primarily on Persian book painting of the 14th to the early 16th centuries. In this period Iran dominated the art of book painting in the Islamic world. The articles reprinted here examine various aspects of this, the golden age of Persian painting. They range from the period of Mongol rule, when the impact of Far Eastern themes and modes radically transformed the heritage bequeathed to Iran by Arab painting - a textbook case of the clash of civilisations - to the dawn of the modern era and the swansong of the classical style of Persian painting under the early Safavids. Yet other articles focus on the roots of book painting in the themes and styles developed in painted ceramics, on medieval Qur'anic calligraphy, on bookbinding and on the remarkably original variations played on the hitherto hackneyed theme of the figural frontispiece by Arab painters. Two major leitmotifs are explored in this selection of essays. One is provided by the constantly varying interpretations of the Shahnama (The Book of Kings), the Persian national epic, and especially the tendency of painters to interpret this familiar text in terms of contemporary politics. The other is the interplay of text and image, which highlights the tendency of painters to strike out on their own and to leave the literal text progressively further behind while they develop plots and sub-plots of their own. These enquiries are set within the context of a concerted effort to explore in detail how Persian painters achieved their most spectacular visual effects. In its combination of general surveys and closely focused analyses of individual manuscripts, this collection of articles will be of interest to specialists in book painting and in Islamic art as a whole.
Publisher: Pindar Press
ISBN: 1915837146
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 567
Book Description
The studies collected in this volume, some of them rather difficult of access, date mostly from the last fifteen years and focus primarily on Persian book painting of the 14th to the early 16th centuries. In this period Iran dominated the art of book painting in the Islamic world. The articles reprinted here examine various aspects of this, the golden age of Persian painting. They range from the period of Mongol rule, when the impact of Far Eastern themes and modes radically transformed the heritage bequeathed to Iran by Arab painting - a textbook case of the clash of civilisations - to the dawn of the modern era and the swansong of the classical style of Persian painting under the early Safavids. Yet other articles focus on the roots of book painting in the themes and styles developed in painted ceramics, on medieval Qur'anic calligraphy, on bookbinding and on the remarkably original variations played on the hitherto hackneyed theme of the figural frontispiece by Arab painters. Two major leitmotifs are explored in this selection of essays. One is provided by the constantly varying interpretations of the Shahnama (The Book of Kings), the Persian national epic, and especially the tendency of painters to interpret this familiar text in terms of contemporary politics. The other is the interplay of text and image, which highlights the tendency of painters to strike out on their own and to leave the literal text progressively further behind while they develop plots and sub-plots of their own. These enquiries are set within the context of a concerted effort to explore in detail how Persian painters achieved their most spectacular visual effects. In its combination of general surveys and closely focused analyses of individual manuscripts, this collection of articles will be of interest to specialists in book painting and in Islamic art as a whole.
Catalogue of the Library of the Peabody Institute of the City of Baltimore
Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385304776
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 882
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385304776
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 882
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Catalogue of the Library of the Peabody Institute of the City of Baltimore ...
Author: Johns Hopkins University. Peabody Institute. Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Dictionary
Languages : en
Pages : 888
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Dictionary
Languages : en
Pages : 888
Book Description
The Chronology of Ancient Nations
Author: Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Al- Bīrūnī
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chronology
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chronology
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Ferdowsi, the Mongols and the History of Iran
Author: Robert Hillenbrand
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1786734656
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 457
Book Description
I.B.Tauris in association with the Iran Heritage Foundation Iran's rich cultural heritage has been shaped over many centuries by its rich and eventful history. This impressive book, which assembles contributions by some of the world's most eminent historians, art historians and other scholars of the Iranian world, explores the history of the country through the prism of Persian literature, art and culture. The result is a seminal work which illuminates important, yet largely neglected, aspects of Medieval and Early Modern Iran and the Middle East. Its scope, from the era of Ferdowsi, Iran's national epic poet and the author of the Shahnameh to the period of the Mongols, Timurids, Safavids, Zands and Qajars, examines the interaction between mythology, history, historiography, poetry, painting and craftwork in the long narrative of the Persianate experience. As such, Ferdowsi, the Mongols and the History of Iran is essential reading and a reference point for students and scholars of Iranian history, Persian literature and the arts of the Islamic World.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1786734656
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 457
Book Description
I.B.Tauris in association with the Iran Heritage Foundation Iran's rich cultural heritage has been shaped over many centuries by its rich and eventful history. This impressive book, which assembles contributions by some of the world's most eminent historians, art historians and other scholars of the Iranian world, explores the history of the country through the prism of Persian literature, art and culture. The result is a seminal work which illuminates important, yet largely neglected, aspects of Medieval and Early Modern Iran and the Middle East. Its scope, from the era of Ferdowsi, Iran's national epic poet and the author of the Shahnameh to the period of the Mongols, Timurids, Safavids, Zands and Qajars, examines the interaction between mythology, history, historiography, poetry, painting and craftwork in the long narrative of the Persianate experience. As such, Ferdowsi, the Mongols and the History of Iran is essential reading and a reference point for students and scholars of Iranian history, Persian literature and the arts of the Islamic World.
The Chronology of Ancient Nations
Author: Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Bīrūnī
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Almanacs
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Almanacs
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
Commutatio Et Contentio
Author: Henning Börm
Publisher: Wellem Verlag
ISBN: 3941820036
Category : Middle East
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
Publisher: Wellem Verlag
ISBN: 3941820036
Category : Middle East
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description