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A World of Beasts: A Thirteenth-Century Illustrated Arabic Book on Animals (the Kitāb Na‘t al-Ḥayawān) in the Ibn Bakhtīshū‘ Tradition
Language: en
Pages: 280
Authors: Anna Contadini
Categories: Reference
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-11-11 - Publisher: BRILL

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The Kitāb Naʿt al-Ḥayawān is the earliest of a group of illustrated manuscripts dealing with the characteristics of animals and their medicinal uses. The p
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Language: en
Pages: 317
Authors: Roxann Prazniak
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An era rich in artistic creations and political transformations, the Mongol period across Eurasia brought forth a new historical consciousness visible in the ar
Drawings from Angola
Language: en
Pages: 74
Authors: Paulus Gerdes
Categories: Juvenile Nonfiction
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For children from age 8 to 14. "Drawings from Angola" present an introduction to an African story telling tradition. The tales are illustrated with marvelous dr
Arab Painting
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Authors: Anna Contadini
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Arab painting, preserved mainly in manuscript illustrations of the 12th to 14th centuries, is here treated as an artistic corpus fully deserving of appreciation
Animals and People in the Ottoman Empire
Language: en
Pages: 520
Authors: Suraiya Faroqhi
Categories: Animal culture
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Açıklama : Similarly to members of other pre-industrial and industrial societies, the subjects of the Ottoman sultans depended on the animals they raised and