This is the french edition of the book about the Arts of Islam.
This unprecedented and unequalled book will interest travellers going to a Muslim country, amateurs of museums dedicating a growing importance to Islamic arts, collectors, in fact anyone wishing to get to know better this magnificent and fascinating civilisation.
This dictionary delivers precise and abundant information on the most diversified subjects and thus enables any reader, whether specialist or novice, to grasp the evolution of Islamic arts from the origin until today, from the Atlantic to India and from the Caucasus to Africa. You will find exhaustive notes about some 250 towns and archaeological sites, as well as shorter articles about 200 other sites.
The book also includes definitions for many technical terms and studies on architecture, decorative and industrial arts: sculpture, painting, ceramics, epigraphy, calligraphy, miniatures, metals, woods, ivories...
A rich and sumptuous iconography enhances the many notes and illustrates all the marvels the author describes with science and passion.
