God is beautiful and loves beauty : the object in Islamic art and culture / edited by Sheila Blair and Jonathan Bloom.

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: Biennial Hamad bin Khalifa Symposium on Islamic Art Dawḥah, Qatar, Museum of Islamic Art (Dawḥah, Qatar), Qatar Foundation, Virginia Commonwealth University, Virginia Commonwealth University. School of the Arts
Other Authors: Blair, Sheila (Editor), Bloom, Jonathan (Jonathan M.) (Editor)
Language:English
Published: New Haven [Connecticut] : Qatar : Yale University Press ; In association with the Qatar Foundation, Virginia Commonwealth University, and Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts in Qatar, [2013]
Subjects:
Islamic art objects > Congresses.
Art and society > Islamic countries > Congresses.
Genre:
Congresses.
Physical Description:xi, 389 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, genealogical tables, maps, portraits ; 30 cm
Format: Conference Proceeding Book
Contents:
  • I.M. Pei and the Challenge of the Modern
  • The Galleries of the Museum of Islamic Art, Doha
  • Twenty Leaves from the Tashkent Koran
  • Three Stucco Panels from Samarra
  • Two Capitals from Madinat-al-Zahraʼ
  • The Most Authoritative Copy of ʻAbd al-Rahman al-Sufi's Guide to the Constellations
  • Three Ceramic Vessels from Medieval Islamic Times
  • The Biography of a Thirteenth-century Brass Ewer from Mosul
  • A Mamluk Enameled Bucket and Experiments in Glass Productions
  • Seven Woven Silk Tent Panels from the Mongol Period
  • An Early Anatolian Animal Carpet and Related Examples
  • An Ottoman Murakkaa and the Birth of the International Style
  • Five Folios from the Jahangir Album
  • Six Seventeenth-Century Oil Painting from Safavid Persia.