TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ali,Wijdan
ED  - Jamʻīyah al-Malakīyah lil-Funūn al-Jamīlah (Jordan)
TI  - The Arab contribution to Islamic art: from the seventh to the fifteenth centuries 
SN  - 9774244761
U1  - 709.17671 21
PY  - 1999///]
CY  - Cairo, Egypt
PB  - American University in Cairo Press
KW  - Islamic art
KW  - History
KW  - Art, Arab
KW  - Arabs
KW  - Middle East
N1  - "Dar el Kutub 1917/98"--T.p. verso; "The Royal Society of Fine Arts, Jordan."; Includes bibliographical references and index; Ch. 1. Pre-Islamic and Islamic Arabia --
Ch. 2. The Umayyads 661-750 --
Ch. 3. The 'Abbasids 750-1258 --
Ch. 4. al-Andalus: The Arabs in Spain 711-1494 --
Ch. 5. The Fatimids 909-1171
N2  - Islamic civilization represents one of the richest and most prolific phases in the cultural history of humanity. Yet it did not generate serious and widespread interest in the West until the beginning of the twentieth century, when art historians and archaeologists began to analyze and evaluate it from their own point of view and according to their own esthetics. This book attempts to appraise the early periods of Islamic art within its own cultural framework and according to Islamic esthetics. It places the development of Islamic art during the early periods within its historical context and social and political environment. It emphasizes the role the Arabs played in the way they molded their culture with that of the conquered peoples and brought about Islamic civilization
ER  -