Contadini (SOAS, London U., the UK) has written a thorough and careful analysis of this superlative Abbasid manuscript (British Library, Or. 2784), comparing its text and images to a variety of relate
Arab painting is treated here as a significant artistic corpus in its own right. Rejecting the traditional emphasis on individual paintings, the distinguished contributors to this volume stress the i
This volume brings together some of the latest research on the cultural, intellectual, and commercial interactions during the Renaissance between Western Europe and the Middle East, with particular re
