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  • under Mongol rule, received an influx of Islamic people. A very few cloisonné ... under Mongol rule, received an influx of Islamic people. A very few cloisonné ...
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  • ) is a holy Islamic city in Saudi Arabia's Makkah province, in ... The city of Mecca in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is the Islamic religion’s ...
    20 KB (3,193 words) - 03:48, 9 November 2022
  • generalize "traditional" African art, the continent is full of ... beginning of tribal differentiation, tribal art has become a way of isolating ...
    17 KB (2,544 words) - 06:05, 16 June 2023
  • of African, Asian, Oceanic, Byzantine and Islamic art. Barbara Burn ... ==Islamic art== The Met's collection of Islamic art is not confined ...
    38 KB (5,761 words) - 16:50, 24 October 2023
  • university, made Cairo a center of Islamic learning and philosophy ... * O'Kane, Bernard. The treasures of Islamic art in the museums ...
    21 KB (3,122 words) - 18:18, 25 November 2023
  • he was a knowledgeable and respected collector of Islamic art. ... one of the finest private collections of Islamic art in the world. He became ...
    29 KB (4,230 words) - 22:56, 30 November 2022
  • The battle was a defining moment in Islamic history. It has been described ... and the community fell into the First Islamic civil war. Ali was assassinated ...
    12 KB (2,050 words) - 10:03, 22 September 2023
  • reversed that trend by putting down a Islamic rebellion in Ahmednagar ... washing his body in accordance with Islamic rites, taking his sandalwood ...
    17 KB (2,508 words) - 19:52, 21 April 2023
  • Buddhist, Greco-Roman, Christian, and Islamic influences have been present ... stands at the cross-roads of Indian art history. Ravi Varma’s contribution ...
    11 KB (1,459 words) - 06:44, 12 January 2024
  • By the end of the fifteenth century, 20 Islamic-based kingdoms had been ... Political parties based on moderate and tolerant Islamic interpretations ...
    26 KB (3,688 words) - 19:40, 16 April 2023
  • discrepancies, comparative law uses the art of estimation by comparison ... common law, the civil law, socialist law, Islamic law, and Asian law. It includes ...
    12 KB (1,733 words) - 08:07, 14 January 2023
  • הסלע, translit.: Kipat Hasela) is an Islamic shrine and a major landmark ... The reason why Muslims venerate the site is because according to Islamic ...
    22 KB (3,569 words) - 16:41, 29 January 2024
  • the classic blended style of Indo-Greek art. The main bodies were hewn ... for religion, philosophy, and Indo-Greek art. It was a Buddhist religious ...
    24 KB (3,495 words) - 18:33, 22 November 2023
  • an example of the magnificent architecture, art, and inscriptions that prevailed ... * Hillenbrand, Robert. 1994. Islamic Architecture: Form, Function ...
    10 KB (1,495 words) - 18:44, 9 November 2022
  • inhabited by the Senussis, a conservative Islamic group. Rock plateaus and ... not as arid as it is today. Fossils, rock art, stone artifacts, bone harpoons ...
    13 KB (2,064 words) - 22:35, 25 October 2022
  • methodology of iconography, principally in art history; for other uses of ... and halo, also found in Christian and Islamic art, and divine qualities ...
    18 KB (2,613 words) - 15:30, 12 February 2024
  • often referred to as the Golden Age of Islamic Civilization. This was also ... of his mother in the governance of the Islamic empire, until her death ...
    14 KB (2,457 words) - 16:44, 30 January 2022
  • on the development of literature, science, art and technical skills. Famous ... When the Islamic armies arrived in 650 C.E., they found a multi-ethnic ...
    20 KB (2,826 words) - 18:38, 22 November 2023
  • The Mahfouz family were devout Muslims and Mahfouz had a strictly ... as Director of Censorship in the Bureau of Art, Director of the Foundation ...
    20 KB (2,983 words) - 23:15, 10 November 2022
  • ideas, including publications, broadcasting, art, advertising, film, and the ... In Islamic tradition, religious tolerance for Jews and Christians ...
    18 KB (2,627 words) - 10:48, 11 April 2024

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