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9781032448152
A Story of Islamic Art / Marcus Milwright

The book also provides a detailed introduction, maps, timeline, glossary, and guides for further reading. This book offers ...

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9780190695910
Arts of Allusion: Object, Ornament, and Architecture in Medieval Islam / Margaret S. Graves

The art of the object reached unparalleled heights in the medieval Islamic world, yet the deep intellectual dimensions of ...

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Consciousness

Consciousness: From Perception to Reflection in the History of Philosophy shows that the concept of consciousness was explicated ...

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9780860789215
Early Islamic Art, 650-1100: Constructing the Study of Islamic Art, Volume I : Variorum Collected Studies / Oleg Grabar

Represent major contributions to the understanding of the formative centuries of Islamic art, focusing on the Umayyad (661-750) ...

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978-1-4020-6204-9
Formal Ontology and Conceptual Realism

Theories about the ontological structure of the world have generally been described in informal, intuitive terms, and the ...

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978-1-4020-5853-0
Formalizing Medieval Logical Theories

This book presents novel formalizations of three of the most important medieval logical theories: supposition, consequence ...

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978-1-4020-6084-7
Forming the Mind

The book collects essays from some of the foremost scholars in a relatively new and very promising field of research. It ...

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9780367723491
Icons of Space : Advances in Hierotopy / Jelena Bogdanovic

Brings together important scholars of Byzantine religion, art, and architecture, to honour the work of renowned art historian ...

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978-1-137-54439-1
Living with Disfigurement in Early Medieval Europe

This book examines social and medical responses to the disfigured face in early medieval Europe, arguing that the study of ...

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978-3-030-41834-2
Missions of Universities

provides an analysis of university missions over time and space. It starts out by presenting a governance framework focusing ...

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978-3-319-99948-7
Reading Breath in Literature

This book presents five different approaches to reading breath in literature, in response to texts from a range of historical, ...

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9781472424068
Rebuilding Anatolia after the Mongol Conquest : Islamic Architecture in the Lands of Rum, 1240–1330 / Patricia Blessing

A study of Islamic architecture in Anatolia following the Mongol conquest in 1243. Complex shifts in rule, movements of population, ...

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Reframing the Alhambra: Architecture, Poetry, Textiles and Court Ceremonial / Olga Bush

Resolves that impasse by investigating the neglected, interdisciplinary contexts of medieval poetics and optics and through ...

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The Production of Meaning in Islamic Architecture and Ornament / Yasser Tabbaa

Discusses monuments in Syria and Iraq, many of which have vanished without being properly studied Explores innovations in ...

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978-1-4020-8468-3
Unity, Truth and the Liar : The Modern Relevance of Medieval Solutions to the Liar Paradox

This volume includes a target paper, taking up the challenge to revive, within a modern (formal) framework, a medieval solution ...

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978-3-030-69709-9
Vegetative Powers

The volume analyzes the natural philosophical accounts and debates concerning the vegetative powers, namely nutrition, growth, ...

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978-1-4020-5895-0
Virtue, Liberty, and Toleration : Political Ideas of European Women, 1400–1800

This volume challenges the view that women have not contributed to the historical development of political ideas, and highlights ...

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978-1-4020-5967-4
"Mechanics and Natural Philosophy before the Scientific Revolution

This volume deals with a variety of moments in the history of mechanics when conflicts arose within one textual tradition, ...

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