Masterpieces from the Department of Islamic Art in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
/ edited by Maryam D. Ekhtiar ... [et al].
; New Haven [Conn.] :
Distributed by Yale University Press,
2011.
xiii, 431 p. :
ill. (some col.), col. map.
Published in conjunction with the reopening of the Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia on November 1, 2011.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Building a collection of Islamic art at the Metropolitan Museum, 1870-2011 / Priscilla P. Soucek - A century of installations : a photo essay / Rebecca Meriwether Lindsay - The new Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia / Navina Najat Haidar - Art of the early caliphates (7th to 10th centuries) / Maryam D. Ekhtiar - Art of Spain, North Africa, and the Western Mediterranean / Olga Bush - Art of the Eastern Islamic lands (9th to 14th centuries) / Priscilla P. Soucek - Art of Egypt and Syria (10th to 16th centuries) / Stefano Carboni - Art of Iran and Central Asia (15th to 19th centuries) / Sheila R. Canby - Art of the Ottoman Court / Walter B. Denny - Art of South Asia (14th to 19th centuries) / Navina Najat Haidar