The Topkapı Saray Museum : the albums and illustrated manuscripts /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English Turkish |
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London :
Thames and Hudson,
1986
London : 1986 |
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword
- Editor's note
- 1. The Topkapı Saray Museum: the Library and its origins
- 2. Scriptoria and studies: organization and methods
- 3. Approval and disapproval of images in Islam
- 4. Libraries in early Islam
- 5. Secular illustration
- 6. The Mongols
- 7. The Timurids and their rivals
- 8. China, chinoiserie and Islam in the fifteenth century
- 9. The Uzbeks and the Safavids
- 10. The Ottomans: origins
- 11. The Ottomans: the Classical age
- 12. Ottoman religious painting
- 13. The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and Westernization
- Select bibliography
- Maps
- Glossary
- Concordance of illustrations
- Index