The Art of the Qur'an: Treasures from the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts by Massumeh Farhad, Julian Raby, Simon Rettig, Sevgi Kutluay, Jane McAuliffe

The Art of the Qur'an: Treasures from the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts

Massumeh Farhad, Julian Raby, Simon Rettig, Sevgi Kutluay, Jane McAuliffe

304 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction art history informative reflective medium-paced
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In the early twentieth century, the Ottoman Empire was in political turmoil. Officials moved valuable artworks--including thousands of sumptuous Qur'an (Koran) manuscripts and loose pages dating from the 7th to 17th century--to Istanbul to ensure ...

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