Tabbaa, Yasser,

The transformation of Islamic art during the Sunni revival - Seattle : University of Washington Press, c2001. - xiii, 210 p. : ill. ; - Publications on the Near East .

Machine generated contents note: Introduction -- The Sunni Retkval -- The Transforration of -- Qur'anic Writing -- The Public Text -- The Girih Mode: Vegetal and -- Geometric Arabesque -- Muqarnas Vaulting and -- Ash'ar Occasionalism -- Stone Muqarnas and -- Other Special Devices -- The Mediation of -- Symbolic Forms -- Notes -- Abbreviations -- Bibliography -- Index.

0295981253 (cloth : alk. paper) 0295981334 (pbk. : alk. paper)


Decoration and ornament, Architectural
Islamic architecture
Architecture, Medieval
Islamic decoration and ornament
Decoration and ornament, Medieval

729.0917 / TAB