The Umayyads

The Rise of Islamic Art

(Museum With No Frontiers International Exhibition Cycle

Islamic Art in the Mediterranean)

2000, colour photographs throughout, paperback, ISBN 187404435X

As New Condition, minor edge and shelf wear, uncreased spine

'The rise of Islamic art offers - through the diversity of the works presented - the necessary clues to a better understanding of the Umayyad culture.  This culture represents the emergence of an innovative artistic language where the subtle crossbreeding of the Aramean, Hellensitic, Roman, Byantine, and Persian influences yield a new architectural and decorative order in which the foundations for the birth of the Islamic art would be laid.'