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Art of the Middle East/North Africa

Zeynep Çelik
Empire, Architecture, and the City: French-Ottoman Encounters, 1830–1914
Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2008. 368 pp.; 33 color ills.; 190 b/w ills. Cloth $60.00 (9780295987798)
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March 17, 2010
Sheila Canby, ed.
Shah 'Abbas: The Remaking of Iran
Exh. cat. London: British Museum, 2009. 274 pp.; 240 color ills. Paper £25.00 (9780714124520)

Exhibition schedule: British Museum, London, February 19–June 14, 2009

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Inna Vishnevskaya
The Tsars and the East: Gifts from Turkey and Iran in the Moscow Kremlin
Exh. cat. Washington, DC: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, 2009. 145 pp.; 111 color ills. Paper $29.95 (9780934686136)

Exhibition schedule: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington, DC, May 9–September 13, 2009

August 19, 2009
Doris Behrens-Abouseif
Cairo of the Mamluks: A History of the Architecture and Its Culture
London : I. B. Tauris, 2007. 359 pp.; 330 ills. Cloth $75.00 (9781845115494)
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August 5, 2009
Jonathan M. Bloom
Arts of the City Victorious: Islamic Art and Architecture in Fatimid North Africa and Egypt
New Haven and London: Yale University Press and Institute of Ismaili Studies, 2008. 256 pp.; 50 color ills.; 100 b/w ills. Cloth $75.00 (9780300135428)
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February 25, 2009
Sibel Bozdoğan and Gülru Necipoğlu, eds.
History and Ideology: Architectural Heritage of the “Lands of Rum"
Leiden: Brill, 2006. 309 pp.; 161 ills. Cloth $76.00 (978900416320)
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October 29, 2008
Edward van Voolen
My Grandparents, My Parents and I: Jewish Art and Culture
Munich: Prestel, 2005. 192 pp.; 200 color ills.; 60 b/w ills. Cloth $60.00 (9783791333625)
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March 19, 2008
Dorothy M. Shepard
"Venice and the Islamic World, 828–1797" Symposium. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. April 22, 2007
College Art Association, 2006
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September 12, 2007
Fereshteh Daftari, ed.
Without Boundary: Seventeen Ways of Looking
Exh. cat. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2005. 112 pp.; 98 color ills. Cloth $65.00 (0870700855)

Exhibition schedule: Museum of Modern Art, New York, February 26–May 22, 2006

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Venetia Porter, ed.
Word into Art: Artists of the Modern Middle East
Exh. cat. London: British Museum Press, 2005. 144 pp.; 204 color ills. Cloth (0714111635)

Exhibition schedule: British Museum, London, May 18–September 2, 2006

August 16, 2007
Gülru Necipoglu
The Age of Sinan: Architectural Culture in the Ottoman Empire
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004. 480 pp.; 250 color ills.; 300 b/w ills. Cloth $99.50 (9780691123264)
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December 3, 2006
George Saliba and Linda Komaroff
The Arts of Fire: Islamic Influences on Glass and Ceramics of the Italian Renaissance
Ed. Catherine Hess. Getty Trust Publications, 2003. 184 pp.; 61 color ills.; 17 b/w ills. Paper $39.95 (089236758X)

National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC: July 18, 2004–February 6, 2005; Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth: April 3, 2005–September 4, 2005; Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo: October 22, 2005–December 11, 2005; Millennium Galleries, Sheffield: January 14, 2006–April 16, 2006

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November 15, 2006
Marie Jenkins-Madina
Raqqa Revisited: Ceramics of Ayyubid Syria
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art in association with Yale University Press, 2005. 260 pp.; 119 color ills.; 189 b/w ills. Cloth $35.00 (0300111436)
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October 16, 2006
Maurice Cerasi, Emiliano Bugatti, and d’Agostiono Sabrina
The Istanbul Divanyolu: A Case Study in Ottoman Urbanity and Architecture
Würzburg: Ergon Verlag, 2003. 154 pp.; 8 color ills.; 89 b/w ills. Paper $62.50 (3899133706)
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September 11, 2006
David J. Roxburgh
The Persian Album,1400–1600: From Dispersal to Collection
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004. 384 pp.; 51 color ills.; 125 b/w ills. Cloth $65.00 (0300103255)
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June 19, 2006
Oleg Grabar
Early Islamic Art, 650–1100: Constructing the Study of Islamic Art, Vol. 1
Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2004. 326 pp.; 98 b/w ills. Cloth $134.95 (0860789217)
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June 8, 2006
Nezar Alsayyad, Irene A. Bierman, and Nasser Rabbat, eds.
Making Cairo Medieval
Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2004. 272 pp. Paper $27.95 (0739109162)
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May 11, 2006
Oliver Leaman
Islamic Aesthetics: An Introduction
Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2003. 211 pp. Paper $25.00 (9780268033699)
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March 13, 2006
Oliver Watson
Ceramics From Islamic Lands
Kuwait: Thames & Hudson in association with Dar al-Athar al-Islamiyyah, Kuwait National Museum, al-Sabah Collection, 2003. 512 pp.; 900+ color ills. Cloth $65.00 (0500976295)
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January 27, 2006
Kees Zandvliet
The Dutch Encounter with Asia, 1600–1950
Exh. cat. Zwolle, Netherlands: Waanders Uitgevers, 2004. 464 pp.; 245 color ills.; 50 b/w ills. €29.95 (9040087172)
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Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, October 10, 2002–February 9, 2003
 
June 29, 2005
David Roxburgh, ed.
Turks: A Journey of a Thousand Years, 600–1600
Royal Academy of Arts, 2004. 496 pp.; many color ills.; 375 ills. Cloth (1903973562)

Royal Academy of Arts, London, January 22–April 12, 2005

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May 27, 2005
Frederick N. Bohrer
Orientalism and Visual Culture: Imagining Mesopotamia in Nineteenth-Century Europe
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. 398 pp.; 79 b/w ills. Cloth $95.00 (0521806577)
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April 7, 2005
Nigel Allan, ed.
Pearls of the Orient: Asian Treasures from the Wellcome Library
Chicago: Serindia Publications, 2003. 215 pp.; 200 color ills. Cloth $50.00 (0906026601)
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September 10, 2004
Douglas R. Nickel
Francis Frith in Egypt and Palestine: A Victorian Photographer Abroad
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003. 240 pp.; 85 b/w ills. Cloth $72.00 (069111515X)
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September 7, 2004
Sibel Bozdoğan
Modernism and Nation-Building: Turkish Architectural Culture in the Early Republic
Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2001. 380 pp.; 240 ills. Cloth $30.00 (0295981520)
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January 29, 2004
Sibel Bozdoğan
Modernism and Nation-Building: Turkish Architectural Culture in the Early Republic
Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2001. 380 pp.; 240 ills. Cloth $30.00 (0295981520)
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October 22, 2003
Richard Ettinghausen, Oleg Grabar, and Marilyn Jenkins-Medina
Islamic Art and Architecture, 650–1250
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001. 352 pp.; 150 color ills.; 330 b/w ills. Cloth $75.00 (0300088671)
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March 24, 2003
Erica Cruikshank Dodd
The Frescoes of Mar Musa al-Habashi: A Study in Medieval Painting in Syria
Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2000. 202 pp.; 22 color ills.; 103 b/w ills. Cloth $89.00 (0888441398)
May 14, 2002
Linda York Leach
Paintings from India, Vol. 8: The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art
New York: The Nour Foundation in association with Azimuth Editions and Oxford University Press, 1997. 260 pp.; 76+ color ills. Cloth $325.00 (0197276296)
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February 15, 2002
Robert Hillenbrand
Islamic Art and Architecture
Thames & Hudson, 1998. 288 pp.; 80 color ills.; 190 b/w ills. Paper $16.95 (0500203059)
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March 1, 2000
Jonathan M. Bloom
The Minbar from Kutubiyya Mosque
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art in association with Ediciones El Viso and Ministry of Cultural Affairs, Kingdom of Morocco, 1997. 124 pp.; 80 color ills.; 28 b/w ills. Cloth (0300086377)
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April 22, 1999
Sheila Blair
Islamic Inscriptions
New York: New York University Press, 1997. 416 pp. Cloth $59.95 (0814713289)
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March 19, 1999