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The Journeys of Kalila and Dimna: Itineraries of Fables in the Arts and Literature of the Islamic World
This book marks a major contribution to the study of Arabic illustrated manuscripts of Kalīla wa-Dimna and its Persian and Ottoman versions. The stud...
Innovative Approaches and Perspectives
Although it is fashionable among modernists to claim that globalism emerged only since ca. 1800, the opposite can well be documented through careful c...
Beyond the Ornament
Abstraction haunts medieval art, both withdrawing figuration and suggesting elusive presence. How does it make or destroy meaning in the process? Does...
Text and Image in Illustrated Arabic Manuscripts
Arab painting, preserved mainly in manuscript illustrations of the 12th to 14th centuries, is here treated as an artistic corpus fully deserving of ap...
Joint Winner of the 2007 British-Kuwait Friendship Society Prize for Middle Eastern StudiesThis stunning book is an important contribution to a key ar...
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The Book of Omens
"Praised by the New York Times as "a highly important exhibition book," this lavishly produced catalog reproduces illustrated texts from the groundbre...
von der koranischen Bewegung zum Frühislam
DANN: NATIONALISMUS 19. JHDT 14...
Die Schriftenreihe veroffentlicht Monographien und Aufsatzsammlungen aus allen Bereichen der historischen Hilfswissenschaften des Mittelalters und der...