God is beautiful and loves beauty the object in Islamic art and culture / [Texte imprimé] : edited by Sheila Blair and Jonathan M. Bloom - New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, 2013 - 1 vol. (XI-389 p.) : ill. ; 30 cm

In association with The Qatar Foundation, Virginia Commonwealth University, and Virginia Commonwealth University School of The Arts in Qatar

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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

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Islamic art objects--Congresses Art and society--Islamic countries--Congresses

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