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Books on The Middle East
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THE AGE OF SULTAN SULEYMAN THE MAGNIFICENT Atil, Esin 1987
AKBAR'S INDIA, ART FROM THE MUGHAL CITY OF VICTORY Brand, Michael and Lowry, Glenn D. 1986
ANVARI'S DIVAN, A POCKET BOOK FOR AKBAR Schimmel, Annemarie and Welch, Stuart Cary 1983
ARAB PAINTING Ettinghausen, Richard 1977 (1962)
ARAB AND PERSIAN PAINTING IN THE FOGG ART MUSEUM Simpson, M. S. 1980
ARABIC ART IN COLOR D'Avennes, Prisse 1978
THE ART OF AFGANISTAN Auboyer, Jeannine 1968
THE ART OF MEDIEVAL SPAIN, AD 500-1200 1993
ART OF THE STEPPES Jettmar, Karl 1967 (1964)
ART OF THE PERSIAN COURT Abolala Soudavar 1992
THE ARTS AND CRAFTS OF MOROCCO Jereb, James F 1995
THE ARTS AND CRAFTS OF TUKESTAN Kalter, Johannes 1984
ARTS OF ASIA, ARAB FURNITURE OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY Jan-Feb 1985; Jan-Feb, Nov-Dec 1987
THE ARTS OF ISLAM, MASTERPIECES FROM THE METROPOLITAN MUSEM OF ART, NEW YORK 1982
THE ARTS OF PERSIA Ferrier, R W 1989
THE ARTS OF THE BOOK IN CENTRAL ASIA Gray, Basil 1979
ARTS OF THE ISLAMIC BOOK Welch, A. & Welch, S. C. 1982
ASIAN ART SPRING 1988
ASIATIC ART IN THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON 1982
ATHENIAN RED FIGURE VASES, THE ARCHAIC PERIOD Boardman, John 1988
AUTHENTIC TURKISH DESIGNS Akar, Azade 1992
CARTHAGE: A MOSAIC OF ANCIENT TUNISIA Aicha Ben Abed Ben Khader & David Soren 1987
THE DECROATIVE ART OF LEON BAKST 1972 (1913)
DRAWINGS OF THE MASTER, PERSIAN DRAWINGS FROM THE 14th THROUGH THE 19tH CENTURY Robinson, B. W,1965
EARLY MUGHAL PAINTING Beach, Milo Cleveland 1987
EARLY MUGHAL PAINTING Lalit Kala Akademi 1971
EPIC IMAGES AND CONTEMPORARY HISTORY, THE ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE GREAT MONGOL SHAHNAMA Grabar, O. & Blair, S. 1980
FIFTEENTH-CENTURY PERSIAN PAINTING PROBLEMS AND ISSUES Robinson, B. W. 1991
FIFTY MASTERPIECES OF ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN ART 1960
THE FORMATION OF ISLAMIC ART Grabar, Oleg 1973
FROM THE LANDS OF THE SCYTHIANS 1974
THE GODS OF DELIGHT, THE HUMAN FIGURE IN CLASSICAL BRONZE Kozloff, A P & Mitten, D G 1988
THE GOLDEN HOARD OF BACTRIA Sarianidi, Victor 1985
A HANDBOOK OF MUHAMMADAN ART Dimand, M. S. Ph. D. 1958
THE HUMAN FIGURE IN EARLY GREEK ART 1988
AN ILLUSTRATED SOUVENIR OF THE EXHIBITION OF PERSIAN ART 1931
IMAGES OF PARADISE IN ISLAMIC ART Blair, S. S. & Bloom, J. M. 1991
IMPERIAL MUGHAL PAINTING Welch, Stuart Cary 1978
THE INDIAN HERITAGE 1982
ISLAMIC ART Brend, Barbara 1991
ISLAMIC ART Rice, David Talbot 1975
ISLAMIC ART IN THE KUWAIT NATIONAL MUSEUM Jenkins, Marilyn 1983
ISLAMIC ART, THE NASLI M. HEERAMANECK COLLECTION 1973
ISLAMIC METALWORK Ward, Rachel 1973
ISLAMIC ORNAMENTAL DESIGN, 1001 ORNAMENTAL MOTIFS Humbert, Claude 1980
ISLAMIC PAINTING IN THE ISRAEL MUSEUM Milstein, Rachel 1984
A JEWELER'S EYE, ISLAMIC ACTS OF THE BOOK FROM THE VEVER COLLECTION Glenn D Lowry 1984
A KINGS BOOK OF KINGS, THE SHAH-NAMEH OF SHAH TAHMASP Welch, Stuart Cary 1972
MEWAR PAINTING Lalit Kala Akademi 1971
UNE MINIATURE RELIGIEUSE DE L'ECOLE ARABE DE BAGDAD 1948
MASTERPIECES OF PERSIAN ART Pope, Arthur Upham 1945
MUQARNAS AN ANNUAL ON ISLAMIC ART AND ARCHITECTURE Grabar, Oleg 1984
THE ORIENTALISTS Verrier, Michelle intro 1979
ORIENTATIONS, SEP 1987
PAINTINGS FROM THE MUSLIM COURTS OF INDIA 1976
PERSIAN DESIGNS AND MOTIFS Dowlatshahi, Ali 1979
PERSIAN MASTERS, FIVE CENTURIES OF PAINTING Canby, Sheila R 1990
PERSIAN PAINTING OF THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY Barrett, Douglas
PERSIAN PAINTING Brooks, Iris 1945
PERSIAN PAINTING Gray, Basil 1977
PERSIAN PAINTINGS Robinson, B. W. 1965
PERSIAN PAINTINGS Robinson, B. W. 1952
PERSIAN PAINTINGS IN THE INDIA OFFICE LIBRARY Robinson, B. W. 1976
PERSIAN PAINTINGS IN THE JOHN RYLANDS LIBRARY Robinson, B. W. 1980
QAJAR PAINTINGS Falk, S F 1972
RED FIGURE VASES OF SOUTH ITALY AND SICILY Trendall, A D 1989
RENAISSANCE OF ISLAM: ART OF THE MA,LUKS Atil, Esin 1981
SARV-E NAZ Surieu, Robert 1967
SCYTHIAN ART B. Piotrovski, L. Galanina & N Grach 1986
A SECOND PARADISE, INDIAN COURTLY LIFE 1590-1947 Patnaik, Naveen 1985
SHIRAZ PAINTING IN THE SIXTEETH CENTURY Guest, Grace Dunham 1949
SPAIN, A HISTORY IN ART Smith, Bradley 1966
A SURVEY OF PERSIAN ART, VOL IV THE CERAMIC ARTS, CALLIGRAPHY AND EPIGRAPHY Pope, A. U. & Ackerman, P. 1981 (1964)
A SURVEY OF PERSIAN ART, VOL VA THE ART OF THE BOOK Pope, A. U. & Ackerman, P. 1981 (1964)
A SURVEY OF PERSIAN ART, VOL IX POTERY AND FAIENCE Pope, A. U. & Ackerman, P. 1981 (1964)
A SURVEY OF PERSIAN ART, VOL X THE ART OF THE BOOK Pope, A. U. & Ackerman, P. 1981 (1964)
TIMUR AND THE PRINCELY VISION Lentz, T W & Lower, G D 1989
THE TOPKAPI SARAY MUSEUM, MANUSCRIPTS Rogers, J. M. 1986
THE TOPKAPI SARAY MUSEUM, THE TREASURY Rogers, J. M. 1987
TREASURES OF ISLAM Falk, Toby ed 1985
TULIPS, ARABESQUES & TURBANS, DECROTIVE ARTS FROM THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE Petsopoulos, Yanni ed 1982
TURKISH ART Atil, Esin 1980
TURKISH TREASURES FROM THE COLLECTION OF EDWIN BINNEY, 3rd 1979
COOKING:
AFRICA ADORNED Angela Fisher 1984
THE COMMON CORD, CENTRAL ASIA TEXTILES 1986
THE ILLUSIVE VEIL Elizabeth Artemis Mourat 1995
FOR MODESTY'S SAKE? Vogelsang-Eastwood, G M 1996
MIDDLE EASTERN COSTUME FROM THE TRIBES AND CITIES OF IRAN AND TURKEY Scare, Jennifer M 1981
VEILED IMAGES Gillian Vogelsang-Eastwood 1996
WOMEN'S COSTUME OF THE NEAR AND MIDDLE EAST Scare, Jennifer 1987
THE WORLD OF ISLAM Ernst J Grube
WOVEN FROM THE SOUL, SPUN FROM THE HEART Bier, Carol 1987
CRAFTS:
ISLAMIC METALWORK, THE NUHAD ES-SAID COLLECTION Allan, James W 1982
ISLAMIC TECHNOLOGY AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY al-Hassan, Ahmad Y and Hill, Donald R 1986
TRADITIONAL CRAFTS OF SAUDI ARABIA Topham. John and others 1982
CULTURE:
AN ACCOUNT OF THE MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE MODERN EGYPTIANS Lane, Edward William 1975
ACTUAL LIFE IN THE TURKISH HAREM Cardashian, Vahan 1914
THE ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN TRADITION Covensky, Milton 1966
THE ARABS IN EUROPE intro. Gabrieli, Francesco 1979
BEDOUIN OF THE SINAI Crociani, Paola 1994
BEHIND MOROCCAN WALLS Celarie, Henriette; Morris, C. L. trans 1931 (1927)
CARAVANS TO TARTARY Michaud, Roland & Sabrina 1985 (1977)
CIVILIZATION OF ISLAM Mathe', Jean 1980
COFFEE AND COFFEEHOUSES THE ORIGINS OF A SOCIAL BEVERAGE IN THE MIDIEVAL NEAR EAST Hattox, Ralph S. 1985
EVERYDAY LIFE IN BYZANTIUM Rice, Tamara Talbot 1967
EVERYDAY LIFE IN OTTOMAN TURKEY Lewis, Raphaela 1971
THE EVOLVING CULTURE OF KUWAIT 1985
THE HAREM Penzer, N. M. 1965 (1936)
HAREM, THE WORLD BEHIND THE VEIL Croutier, Alev Lytle 1989
HAREMLIK, SOME PAGES FROM THE LIFE OF TURKISH WOMEN Vaka, Demetra 1911
ISLAM AND THE ARAB WORLD, FAITH. PEOPLE. CULTURE Lewis, Bernard ed 1976
JOURNAL OF NEAR EASTERN STUDIES, XXIII 1,2,3,4; XXIV 1,2,3,4; XXV 1,2,3,4; 26 1,2,3,4;
NOMADS OF THE WORLD Breeden, Robert L, ed 1971
SECRETS OF THE HAREM Coco, Carla 1997
WOMEN OF ISLAM trans MacGibbon, Jean 1961
WOMEN IN ISLAM FROM MEDIEVAL TO MODERN TIMES Walther, Webke 1995 (1993)
DANCE:
DANCES OF ANCIENT EGPT Elizabeth "Artemis" Mourat 1987
EROTIC:
THE KOKA SHASTRA Comfort, Alex, trans. 1964
GARDENS:
GARDENS OF PARADISE, THE HISTORY AND DESIGN OF THE GREAT ISLAMIC GARDENS Brookes, John 1987
PARADISE AS A GARDEN IN PERSIA AND MUGHAL INDIA Moynihan, Elizabeth B 1979
HISTORY:
THE ARAB MIND Patai, Raphael 1976
BARBARIANS, CHRISTIANS AND MUSLIMS ed Cairns, Trevor 1971
EARLY ISLAM Desmond Stewart 1968
THE GENIUS OF ARAB CULTURE, SOURCE OF RENAISSANCE John R Hayes, ed 1975
THE GREAT MOGHULS Gascolgne, Bamber 1971
A HISTORY OF ISLAMIC SPAIN Watt, W M and Cachia, Pierre 1965
HISTORY OF THE MONGOLS Spuler, Bertold 1972
ISFAHAN, PEARL OF PERSIA Blunt, Wilfred 1974
THE MATTER OD ARABY IN MEDIEVAL ENGLAND Metlitzki, Dorothee 1977
MEDIEVAL STUDIES AT MINNESOTA 3: THE MEDIEVAL MEDITERRANEAN, CROSS CULTURAL CONTACTS Marilyn J Chiat & Kathryn L Reyerson 1998
MOORISH SPAIN Richard Fletcher 1993
NOMADS OF EURASIA Basilov, Vladimir N, ed 1989
THE RISE AND FALL OF PARADISE, WHEN ARABS AND JEWS BUILT A KINGDON IN SPAIN Bendiner, Elmer 1983
SALADIN IN HIS TIME Newby, P H 1983
SCIENCE: THE ISLAMIC LEGACY
A SHORT HISTORY OF THE ARAB PEOPLES Glubb, Sir John 1969
SULEIMAN THE MAGNIFICENT Bridge, Anthony 1966
SULEYMANNAME THE ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF SULEYMAN THE MAGNIFICENT Atil, Esin 1986
THE SULTANS Barber, Noel 1973
A TOUSAND YEARS OF THE TARTARS Parker, E H 1987
VENTURE OF ISLAM, THE EXPANSION OF ISLAM IN THE MIDDLE PERIODS Hodgson, Marshall G S 1974
THE WORLD HISTORY OF RASHID AL-DIN Gray, Basil 1978
JEWELRY:
THE ART OF BEDOUIN JEWELLERY Ross, Heather Colyer 1989 (1981)
ISLAMIC JEWELRY IN THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART Jenkins, M & Keene, M 1982
LANGUAGE:
ARABIC, A COMPLETE COURSE FOR BRGINNERS Smart, J R 1992
TURKISH, A COMPLETE COURSE FOR BRGINNERS Pollard, Asuman Celen and Pollard, David 1996
LITERATURE:
THE ADVENTURES OF HAJJI BABA OF ISPAHAN Morier, James 1937
ARAB FOLKTALES trans Bushaq, Iner 1986
ARABIAN FAIRY TALES Shah, Amina 1989
THE BOOK OF THE THOUSAND NIGHTS AND A NIGHT, THE COMPLETE BURTON TRANSLATION WITH THE COMPLETE BURTON NOTES, VOLUMES i THRU vi 1934
CLASSICAL PERSIAN LITERATURE Arberry, A J 1967 (1958)
FABLED CITIES, PRINCES & JINN Al-Saleh, Khairat 1985
HAFIZ OF SHIRAZ trans. Bicknell, Herman 1875
AN INTRODUCTION TO PERSIAN LITERATURE Levy, Reuben 1969
KALILA AND DIMNA FABLES FROM A FOURTEEN-CENTURY ARABIC MANUSCRIPT Atil, Esin 1981
KALILA AND DIMNA SELECTED FABLES OF BIDPAI Wood, Ramsay 1980
KALILAH AND DIMNAH trans. Tehranchian, Hassan 1985
THE MEANING OF THE GLORIOUS KORAN Pickthall, Marmaduke
MIRROR OF THE INVISIBLE WORLD Chelkowski, Peter J 1975
THE PERFUMED GARDEN OF SHAYK NEFZAWI trans. Burton, Sir Richard 1978
PERSIAN MYTHOLOGY Hinnells, John R 1985
THE PURFUMED GARDEN OF THE SHAYKH NEFZAWI trans. Burton, Sir Richard F 1964
RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM AND PERSIAN MINIATURES Fitzgerald, Edward trans. 1979 (ca 1100)
THE SATANIC VERSES Rushdie, Salman 1989
THE SON OF A DUCK IS A FLOATER Arnander, Primrose & Skipwith, Ashkhain 1985
TALES OF LOVE, SEX & DANGER Kakar, Sudhir and Ross, John Munder 1987
THE TRAGEDY OF SOHRAB AND ROSTAM trans, Clinton, Jerome W 1987
MINIATURES: see also ART above
AETHIOPISCHE MINIATUREN Jager, Otto A. 1957
AZERBAIJAN MINIATURE Kerimov, Kerim 1980
INDIAN MINIATURES OF THE MUGHAL COURT Okada, Amina 1992
INDIAN MINIATURES OF THE MUGHAL SCHOOL Hajek, Lubor 1960
THE JENGHIZ KHAN MINIATURES FROM THE COURT OF AKBAR THE GREAT Kuthanova, Olga
MINIATURES ILLUSTRATIONS OF ALISHER NAVOI'S WORKS 1982
MINIATURES ILLUSTRATIONS OF NISAMI'S "HAMSAH" Pazila Suleimanova 1985
MINIATURES OF THE EAST Hajek, Lubor 1960
MOGHAL MINIATURES Rogers, J. M. 1993 trans. 1963
MUSLIM MINIATURE PAINTINGS FROM THE XIII TO XIX CENTURY Grube, Ernst J 1962
NIZAMI KHAMSA MINIATURES 1983
PERSIAN MINIATURE PAINTING Binyon, Laurence, Wilkinson, J. V. S. & Gray, Basil 1971 (1933)
PERSIAN MINIATURE PAINTING AND ITS INFLUENCE ON THE ART OF TURKEY AND INDIA Titley, Norah M. 1983
PERSIAN MINIATURES Dimand, Maurice
PERSIAN MINIATURES Kubidkova, Vera
PERSIAN MINIATURES Robinson, B. W.
PERSIAN MINIATURES FROM ANCIENT MANUSCRIPTS Gray, Basil 1962 (1956)
PERSIAN MINIATURE PAINTING bINYON, wILKINSON & gRAY 1931
PERSIAN-TAJIK POETRY IN XIV-XVII CENTURIES MINIATURES Ashrafi, M. M. 1974
TURKISH MINIATURE PAINTINGS & MANUSCRIPTS Binney, Edwin, 3rd 1973
TURKISH MINIATURES Meredith-Owens, G. M. 1963
TURKISH MINIATURES FROM THE THIRTEENTH TO EIGHTEENTH CENTURY Ettinghousen, Richard 1965
MUSIC:
THE MUSIC OF THE ARABS Laurie Schwartz, trans 1996
TRAVELOG:
ADVENTURE IN ARABIA AMOUNG THE BEDOUINS, DRUSES, WHIRLING DERVISHES, & YEZIDEE DEVIL WORSHIPERS Seabrook, W. B. 1930(1927)
THE ALHAMBRA Stewart, Desmond 1974
ARABESQUE AND HONEYCOMB Sitwell, Sacheverell 1958 (1957)
ARABIA FELIX ACROSS THE "EMPTY QUARTER" OF ARABIA Thomas, Bertram 1932
ARABIA FELIX THE DANISH EXPEDITION OF 1761-1767 Hansen, Thorkild 1964 (1962)
ARAMCO HANDBOOK Lebkicher, Roy 1960
CONTEMPORARIES OF MARCO POLO Komroff, Manuel, ed 1937 (1928)
CURZON'S PERSIA Curzon, George Nathaniel 1986 (1892)
EGYPT, DESCRIPTIVE HISTORICAL & PICTURESQUE, VOL I Ebers, G. 1898
EGYPT, DESCRIPTIVE HISTORICAL & PICTURESQUE, VOL II Ebers, G. 1898
EGYPT ILLUSTRATED WITH PEN AND PENCIL Thwing E. P., Ph. D. 1891
EOTHEN OR TRACES OF TRAVEL BROUGHT HOME FROM THE EAST Morris, Jan 1982 (1906)
FRIAR FELIX AT LARGE, A FIFTEENTH-CENTURY PILGRIMAGE TO THE HOLY LAND Prescott, H. F. M. 1950
THE GOLDEN ROAD TO SAMARKAND Blunt, Wilfred 1973
INCIDENTS OF TRAVEL IN EGYPT, ARABIA PETRAEA, AND THE HOLY LAND Stephens, John Lloyd 1970 (1837)
THE ITINERARY OF BENJAMIN OF TUDELA, TRAVELS IN THE MIDDLE AGES 1987 (1173)
LETTERS FROM EGYPT Lucie Duff Gordon 1983 (1875)
THE ORIENTAL ADVENTURE, EXPLORERS OF THE EAST Severn, Timothy 1976
PERSIA THE LAND OF THE MAGI Nweeya, Samuel K. 1913 (1900)
SINAI AND THE MONASTERY OF St. CATHERINE Gal1ey, John 1980
SIR JOHN CHARDIN'S TRAVELS IN PERSIA Sir Percy Sykes 1927
SOUTHERN GATES OF ARABIA A JOURNEY IN THE HADHRAMAUT Stark, Freya 1936
TRAVELS IN ARABIA DESERTA Doughty, Charles M 1953
TRAVELERS IN ANCIENT LANDS, A PORTRAIT OF THE MIDDLE EAST, 1839-1919 Vaczek, Louis & Buckland, Gail 1981
TRAVELS IN PERSIA 1673-1677 Sir John Chardin 1988
TRAVELS IN THE MOGUL EMPIRE AD 1656-1668 Bernier, Francois 1968 (1891)
TREASURES OF THE ALHAMBRA Irving, Washington 1979
TURKISTAN NOTES OF A JOURNEY IN RUSSIAN TURKISTAN, KHOKAND, BUKHARA AND KULDJA, Volumes I and II Schuyler, Eugene 1877
UP THE NILE, A PHOTOGRAPHIC EXCURSION: EGYPT 1839-1898 Bull, D. & Lorimer, D. 1979
VOYAGE TO THE LEVANT Sieur du Mont 1705
THE WORLD OF ALLAH Duncan, David Douglas 1982