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 architecture

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