Product Description: This, the second of the 2 volumes devoted to Qur'an manuscripts produced in the period after 1600, covers the 19th century in Iran and the Ottoman Empire. It contains original, groundbreaking essays and entries on some 70 fine examples, revealing the period to be one of sumptuous brilliance and intellectual innovation...read more

Product Description: The Victoria and Albert Museum owns one of the most respected Islamic art collections in the world, housed in the newly created Jameel Gallery. In this fascinating book, members of the team who worked on the project describe the history of the gallery and its collections, the curatorial processes involved in configuring the displays, and the creation of an exciting design for the gallery...read more

Product Description: Fully illustrated in colour, this fascinating catalogue of the Nasser D. Khalili collection's scientific apparatus offers a wonderful insight into the astronomical, medical and domestic wisdom of Islamic civilisations. Objects from the seventh to the nineteenth centuries are illustrated, drawn mainly from Iranian, Ottoman Turkish and Mughal Indian contexts...read more

This second volume continues the presentation of the Khalili Collection's holdings in Islamic lacquer, the world's largest and most important collection. As well as illustrating all 450 objects, this two-volume catalogue provides a major new study of the subject by two of the leading authorities in the field, including Dr. Khalili himself.

Product Description: This, the first of two volumes devoted to Qur'an manuscripts produced in the period after 1600, deals mainly with Ottoman, Iranian and Indian Qur'ans of the 17th and 18th centuries, but also includes material from China and North East Africa...read more

Product Description: The 26 Oriental manuscripts (41 treatises) now at St John's College, Oxford, reflect the varying ways in which Europeans have sought to make themselves familiar with the cultures of the East. Acquired during the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries most are Arabic or Persian, but there are also Syriac, Hebrew, Turkish, Ethiopic, and Gujarati items...read more

Presents an overview of Islamic art, featuring examples of paintings, ceramics, textiles, calligraphy, and other works from the collections at the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Product Description: The Nasser D. Khalili Collection contains an enormous number of historically important objects relating to the fields of Islamic science in astrology, astronomy, medicine, and magic. This volume brings all these subjects together, and provides fascinating insight into the traditions and innovations of scholars and scientists in Islamic cultures...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)