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    Islamic art and architecture / Henri Stierlin ; photographs by Anne and Henri Stierlin.

    By: Stierlin, HenriContributor(s): Stierlin, AnneMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: London ; New York, N.Y. : Thames & Hudson, 2002Description: 319 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 37 cmISBN: 0500511004; 9780500511008Subject(s): Art, Iranian | Art, MogulDDC classification: 709.17671 LOC classification: N7280 | .S75 2002PS3558.O348 | F4
    Contents:
    Pt. I. History and Art -- The Spread of the Persian Style from Isfahan to the Taj Mahal -- 1. The Rebirth of Iran -- 2. Muslims in India and Mongols in Iran -- 3. Samarqand and the Masterworks of the Timurids -- 4. The Evolution of the Mughal Style from Babur to Akbar -- 5. Architecture, Manuscript Painting and Carpets in Bukhara and under the Early Safavids -- 6. The Flowering of Safavid Iran: the Masterpieces of Isfahan -- 7. Jahangir and Shah Jahan: the Great Age of the Mughals -- 8. The Last Creations: Late Iran, the Khanate of Khiva, Aurangzeb, and the Rajputs -- Postscript: the Primacy of Architecture in the 'Persianized' World -- Pt. II. Key Monuments in the Persian Style -- The Origins of Muslim Iran: History and Culture 622-900
    Summary: This album of the greatest Islamic art and architecture of Iran and India explores and celebrates cities from Tabriz to Khiva, Lahore to Sikandra. It offers a key to understanding the immense heritage left by hundreds of architects, landscape gardeners, calligraphers, miniaturists and weavers.
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    "From Isfahan to the Taj Mahal"--Jkt.

    Includes bibliographical references (p. [316]) and index.

    This album of the greatest Islamic art and architecture of Iran and India explores and celebrates cities from Tabriz to Khiva, Lahore to Sikandra. It offers a key to understanding the immense heritage left by hundreds of architects, landscape gardeners, calligraphers, miniaturists and weavers.

    Pt. I. History and Art -- The Spread of the Persian Style from Isfahan to the Taj Mahal -- 1. The Rebirth of Iran -- 2. Muslims in India and Mongols in Iran -- 3. Samarqand and the Masterworks of the Timurids -- 4. The Evolution of the Mughal Style from Babur to Akbar -- 5. Architecture, Manuscript Painting and Carpets in Bukhara and under the Early Safavids -- 6. The Flowering of Safavid Iran: the Masterpieces of Isfahan -- 7. Jahangir and Shah Jahan: the Great Age of the Mughals -- 8. The Last Creations: Late Iran, the Khanate of Khiva, Aurangzeb, and the Rajputs -- Postscript: the Primacy of Architecture in the 'Persianized' World -- Pt. II. Key Monuments in the Persian Style -- The Origins of Muslim Iran: History and Culture 622-900

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