"This illustrated book provides an overview of Islamic art and architecture from the seventh to the thirteenth centuries, a time of the formation of a new artistic culture and its first, medieval, flowering in the vast area from the Atlantic to India. Inspired by Ettinghausen an…
The transformation of a vast area - from central Spain to the delta of the Indus and from the Sahara desert and the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean, the Caucasus, the Central Asian deserts, and the Hindu Kush - into a land controlled by Islam was accomplished within roughly a …
"The architecture of Rasem Badran is human-scaled - one that responds to its environment and meets the social and cultural requirements of the people who use it. For the first time, this book provides an overview of the work of one who could be seen as the natural successor to t…