Studies in Islamic art and architecture in honour of Professor K. A. C. Creswell.

Studies in Islamic art and architecture in honour of Professor K. A. C. Creswell. Contributions by C. L. Geddes [and others. - Cairo] Published for the Center for Arabic Studies by the American University in Cairo Press, 1965. - xx, 291p. illus., plans (part fold.) port. 29cm.

English, French, or German. (Cont.) The pottery of Byzantium and the Islamic world, by D.T. Rice.--The Mas̲ẖhad al-Jūs̲ẖī (archaeological notes and studies), by F. ShāfeʻI.--An Ayyūbid basin of al-Ṣālih Najm al-Dīn, by W. ʻIzzī.--La Mosquée de Kāfūr au Caire, by G. Wiet.--On Islamic swords, by A.R. Zaky.

Includes bibliographical references.

K.A.C. Creswell, by C.L. Geddes.--Bibliography of the writings of K.A.C. Creswell (p. xiv-xix)--L'œuvre de K.A.C. Creswell, by E. Combe.--Le palais de Sedrata dans le Désert Saharien, by M. van Berchem.--Zum Bāb al-Wuzarāʼ Puerta de San Esteban) der Hauptmoschee von Córdoba, by K. Brisch--Vorosmanische Medresen und Imarets vom Medresentyp in Anatolien, by K. Erdmann.--Foundation-moulded leatherwork--a rare Egyptian technique also used in Britain, by R. Ettinghausen.--A new inscription from the Ḥaram al-S̲ẖarīf in Jerusalem, by O. Grabar.--Die Bauinschrift der Moschee des Aḥmad ibn Ṭūlūn (265/879), by A. Grohmann.--Dome decorations by means of pierced openings, by Ḥ. ʻAbd al-Wahhāb.--Die beiden Mosaikböden in Quṣayr ʻAmra, by C. Kessler.--Some notes on the façade of Ms̲ẖattā, by E. Kühnel.--Sur les mosaïques de la Grande Mosquée de Cordoue, by G. Marçais.--The ṭirāz institutions in medieval Egypt, by M.A. Marzouk.--Inscriptions on the minarets of Saveh, Iran, by G.C. Miles.--Note on the aesthetic character of the north dome of the Mashid-i-Jāmiʻ of Iṣfāhan, by A.U. Pope.

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Islamic art.
Islamic architecture

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