Masterpieces from the Department of Islamic Art in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
First Statement of Responsibility
/ edited by Maryam D. Ekhtiar ... [et al].
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
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; New Haven [Conn.] :
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Distributed by Yale University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2011.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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xiii, 431 p. :
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ill. (some col.), col. map.
GENERAL NOTES
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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.
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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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