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Author
Publisher
Skira
Pub. Date
2008
Description
"The Furusiyya Art Foundation began its collection of Islamic art, and in particular works of art relating to the Muslim chevalier, in the early 1980s. The objective was to collect material of the earliest Islamic periods and dynasties. Today the collection includes fine pieces from the eighth-ninth centuries, especially Samanid, Ghaznavid and Saljuq periods through to the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Early sword pommels and guards...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2009, ©2006
Description
In the tradition of graphic memoirs such as Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis, comes the story of a young Iranian woman's struggles with growing up under Shiite Law, her journey into adulthood, and the daughter whom she had to leave behind when she left Iran.
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
The term "Islamophobia" reflects the largely unexamined and deeply ingrained anxiety many Americans experience when considering Islam and Muslim cultures. Until recently, America has had only a small domestic Muslim minority and few connections to Muslim cultures with whom to build familiarity. In times of crisis, the long-simmering resentments, suspicions and fears manifest themselves. This book graphically shows how political cartoons--the print...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"Historians have traced the traditions of Islamic scholarship back to late antiquity. Muslim scholars were at work as early as 750 CE/AD, painstakingly copying their commentaries and legal opinions onto scrolls and codices. This venerable tradition embraced the modern printing press relatively late-movable type was adopted in the Middle East only in the early nineteenth century. Islamic scholars, however, initially kept their distance from the new...
