Atlas al-funun al-zakhrafiyah wa-al-tasawir al-Islamiyah. [Atlas of Is

HASAN (Zaki Muhammad).

Atlas al-funun al-zakhrafiyah wa-al-tasawir al-Islamiyah. [Atlas of Islamic Decorative Arts and Illustrations.]

HANDSOME SURVEY OF ISLAMIC DECORATIVE ARTS

First edition. Arabic text. Numerous half-tone photographic illustrations (covering 400 pages). Small folio. Original duck-egg blue cloth, Arabic cover-title to front board (including an illustration of the Great Mosque of Samarra), English cover-title to rear board, silver-gilt lettering to spine, title-page printed in blue and gold; spine slightly sunned, several small scratches and scuffs to boards, corners bumped, otherwise near very good. Arabic stamp of an arts and sciences bookshop to half-title and title-page, rest of interior clean and fresh. [viii], [12], 1-400 (illustrations), 401-567, [1]pp. Cairo, Cairo University Press, 1956.

£950.00

An attractively-produced survey of Islamic decorative arts written by Dr. Zaki Muhammad Hasan (1326-1377 AH, 1908-1957 CE), a celebrated Egyptian art historian and manuscript scholar.

The content includes artistic production from across the Islamic World, featuring a stunning range of ceramics, woodcarving, metalwork, carpentry, miniature painting and bookbinding. The four-hundred pages of illustration are followed by an elegant descriptive text, compiled from a wide range of Persian, Arabic and Western sources. The sections on miniatures, manuscripts and bindings are particularly engaging, showing the fruit of Dr. Hasan’s lifelong fascination with the arts of the Islamic book.

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Atlas al-funun al-zakhrafiyah wa-al-tasawir al-Islamiyah. [Atlas of Islamic Decorative Arts and Illustrations.]

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