Mideast: Arts, Crafts and Architecture

Explores the aesthetic history of Middle Eastern culture, emphasizing Islamic art, crafts, and architecture. Presents rugmaking, miniature painting, leather processing, calligraphy, mosaic tiling and dome construction. Explains how the role of Islam is combined with native materials to shape these processes and styles.
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Explores the aesthetic history of Middle Eastern culture, emphasizing Islamic art, crafts, and architecture. Presents rugmaking, miniature painting, leather processing, calligraphy, mosaic tiling and dome construction. Explains how the role of Islam is combined with native materials to shape these processes and styles., NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.

More in Mideast Series

  1. Mideast: Islam--The Unifying Force 1977
  2. Mideast: Arts, Crafts and Architecture 1978

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