Jonathan M. Bloom

Stefano Carboni

Antoine M. Wilmering

Jack Soultanian

Ahmed Toufiq

Minbar from the Kutubiyya Mosque

David Whitehouse

This catalogue accompanies an exhibition that brings together more than 150 glass objects representing twelve centuries of Islamic glassmaking. Included are the principal types of pre-industrial glass from Egypt, the Middle East, and India in a comprehensive array of shapes, colors, and techniques such as glassblowing, the use of molds, the manipulation of molten glass with tools, and the application of molten glass to complete or decorate an object. -- Metropolitan Museum of Art website.

Glass of the Sultans

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

Images of the Zodiac in Islamic Art

Following the Stars

Following the Stars: Images of the Zodiac in Islamic Art

Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Linda Komaroff

Komaroff (curator of Islamic Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art) and Carboni (curator of Islamic Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art) produced this fine catalog to accompany a major show of Ilkhanid (as the Mongol dynasty was called after conversion to Islam) art exhibited at the authors' museums in New York and Los Angeles in 2002-2003. Most of the manuscripts, metalwork, textiles, ceramics, and other finely decorated objects were created in Iran. Many objects are also included from the Yuan Dynasty in China, during which the Mongols ruled. Eight full-length essays are built around the objects of the exhibition and other works, all depicted in color. The essays describe the history, culture, courtly life, artistic exchanges, religious art, arts of the book, and creation of a new visual language. Distributed by Yale U. Press. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Courtly Art and Culture in Western Asia, 1256-1353

The Legacy of Genghis Khan

Tomoko Masuya

Persian Tiles

Stefano Carboni

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