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"Oleg Grabar, in this book of exceptional subtlety and taste, surveys and extends his own important contributions to the study of early Islamic art history and works out an original and imaginative approach to the elusive and complex problems of understanding Islamic art. ... He has given us a stunning example of the creative possibilities that inhere in the tension between the study of concrete materials in accord with a specific discipline and reflection on the meaning of the specific subject for the civilization as a whole."--American Historical Review - back cover.

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Yale University Press
Language
English
Pages
233

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Subjects
History, Islamic Art, Art islamique, Histoire, Islamitische kunst, Islamic art, Islamic civilization, Art, Islam, Entstehung, Islamische Kunst, Art, Islamic,

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1973, Yale University Press
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New Haven

Edition Notes

Bibliography: p. 217-227.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
709/.1/7671
Library of Congress
N6260 .G69, N6260, N6260 .G69X 1973

The Physical Object

Pagination
xix, 233, [80] p.
Number of pages
233

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL5295456M
Internet Archive
formationofislam00grab
ISBN 10
0300015054
LCCN
72075193
OCLC/WorldCat
665193
Library Thing
22941

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"Oleg Grabar, in this book of exceptional subtlety and taste, surveys and extends his own important contributions to the study of early Islamic art history and works out an original and imaginative approach to the elusive and complex problems of understanding Islamic art. ... He has given us a stunning example of the creative possibilities that inhere in the tension between the study of concrete materials in accord with a specific discipline and reflection on the meaning of the specific subject for the civilization as a whole." - American Historical Review - back cover.

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