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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Images are beautiful bright and vivid. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> One must remember though that this exhibition and book deal not simply with a renaissance but with a renaissance of Islam. From the time of the Prophet Muhammad until today. Islam has represented a way of life an all-encompassing approach to life itself. The era’s dedication to the philosophy and message of Islam is mirrored in its art predominantly ordered symmetrical and geometric in conception and execution. It is possible to speculate that this overriding sense of order was in part a reaction to disorder to the period’s wars palace rivalries and cruelties. Despite the disorder the world of the Mamluks was a world of commerce. A rich dividend offered by this volume and exhibition is the evidence they provide of the extent to which the flow of trade across the world inspired an intermingling of images and artistic concepts. Today as five centuries ago the world yearns for peace and unity It is heartening then to note that this treasure of Mamluk art was gathered together with the unstinting cooperation of the governments of Egypt and Syria and museums national and private on four continents with the generous support of an American enterprise the United Technologies Corporation and with the dedicated help of the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service and a variety of other Smithsonian staff members and offices. It is through such joint efforts that the cultural accomplishments of the past can be harnessed to enrich the present. (MP)