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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 ...

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 ...

Consciousness

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

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) ...

Formal Ontology and Conceptual Realism

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

Formalizing Medieval Logical Theories

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

Forming the Mind

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

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 ...

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 ...

Missions of Universities

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

Reading Breath in Literature

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

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Vegetative Powers

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

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 ...

"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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