The Art and Architecture of Islam, 1250-1800 : Yale University Press : 9780300064650 : 0300064659 : 02 Sep 1996 : Virtually all the masterpieces of Islamic art?the Alhambra, the Taj Mahal, and the Tahmasp Shahnama?were produced during the period from the Mongol conquests in the early thirteenth century to the advent of European colonial rule in the nineteenth. This beautiful book surveys the architecture and arts of the traditional Islamic lands during this era. Conceived as a sequel to The Art and Architecture of Islam: 650-1250, by Richard Ettinghausen and Oleg Grabar, the book follows the general format of the first volume, with chronological and regional divisions and architecture treated separately from the other arts. The authors describe over two hundred works of Islamic art of this period and also investigate broader social and economic contexts, considering such topics as function, patronage, and meaning. They discuss, for example, how the universal caliphs of the first six c