Modern Antenna Handbook by Balanis, CA;

Short description:

Islamic Art and Visual Culture is a collection of primary sources in translation accompanied by clear and concise introductory essays that provide unique insights into the aesthetic and cultural history of one of the world's major religions.

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Long description:

Islamic Art and Visual Culture is a collection of primary sources in translation accompanied by clear and concise introductory essays that provide unique insights into the aesthetic and cultural history of one of the world's major religions.

• Collects essential translations from sources as diverse as the Qur'an, court chronicles, technical treatises on calligraphy and painting, imperial memoirs, and foreign travel accounts
• Includes clear and concise introductory essays
• Situates each text and explains the circumstances in which it was written??the date, place, author, and political conditions
• Provides a vivid window into Islamic visual culture and society
• An indispensable tool for teachers and students of art and visual culture

The Islamic world includes three main languages (Arabic, Persian, and Turkish) as well as numerous secondary languages. For this reason, even specialists in Islam rarely have access to all the primary materials of their field. Many works do exist in translation, but they can be difficult to track down. Although scholars regularly make their own translations, teachers can rarely do so, except when presenting a unique example of a primary text for the sake of explaining the role of primary and secondary sources. In recent years, numerous survey texts have been published for student audiences and lay readers as well as collections of essays and anthologies for scholarly audiences. But a collection of primary sources has not been compiled. Islamic Art and Visual Culture: An Anthology of Sources would fill this crucial need.

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