Author : Vincenzo Clarizia
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 22,55 MB
Release : 2022-08-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1803270314
Omani men carried personal weapons until relatively recently. Swords and daggers were part of daily life attire and are still worn in social events. This book describes all the main types of Omani edged weapons, their origin, structure and accessories, with supporting illustrations and references to examples from museums and private collections.
Author : Thomas A. Green
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 807 pages
File Size : 28,72 MB
Release : 2010-06-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1598842447
This book is the most comprehensive and authoritative reference ever published on the wide range of martial arts disciplines practiced in cultures around the world. ABC-CLIO's Martial Arts of the World: An Encyclopedia of History and Innovation is the most authoritative reference ever published on combat disciplines from around the world and across history. Coverage includes Shaolin monks, jousting knights, Roman gladiators, Westerner gunfighters, samurai warriors, and heavyweight boxers. These iconic figures and many more are featured in this title, as well as representatives of less well known but no less fascinating systems, all vividly characterized by expert contributors from around the world who are themselves martial arts practitioners. Martial Arts of the World comprises 120 entries in two volumes. The first volume is organized geographically to explore the historic development of martial arts styles in Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas. The second volume looks at martial arts thematically, with coverage of belief systems, modern martial arts competitions, and a wide range of such topics as folklore, women in martial arts, martial arts and the military, and martial arts and the media.
Author : Susan Sinclair
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 1508 pages
File Size : 29,49 MB
Release : 2012-04-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9047412079
Following the tradition and style of the acclaimed Index Islamicus, the editors have created this new Bibliography of Art and Architecture in the Islamic World. The editors have surveyed and annotated a wide range of books and articles from collected volumes and journals published in all European languages (except Turkish) between 1906 and 2011. This comprehensive bibliography is an indispensable tool for everyone involved in the study of material culture in Muslim societies.
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Page : 692 pages
File Size : 46,65 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Africa, North
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Author : James W. Allan
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 33,25 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
Study of the Tanavoli collection's iron and steel objects, supplemented in important areas by items from the Ashmoleon Museum.
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Page : 224 pages
File Size : 21,52 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Middle East
ISBN :
Author : Jonathan Bloom
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1697 pages
File Size : 46,72 MB
Release : 2009-05-14
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 019530991X
The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture is the most comprehensive reference work in this complex and diverse area of art history. Built on the acclaimed scholarship of the Grove Dictionary of Art, this work offers over 1,600 up-to-date entries on Islamic art and architecture ranging from the Middle East to Central and South Asia, Africa, and Europe and spans over a thousand years of history. Recent changes in Islamic art in areas such as Afghanistan, Iran, and Iraq are elucidated here by distinguished scholars. Entries provide in-depth art historical and cultural information about dynasties, art forms, artists, architecture, rulers, monuments, archaeological sites and stylistic developments. In addition, over 500 illustrations of sculpture, mosaic, painting, ceramics, architecture, metalwork and calligraphy illuminate the rich artistic tradition of the Islamic world. With the fundamental understanding that Islamic art is not limited to a particular region, or to a defined period of time, The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture offers pathways into Islamic culture through its art.
Author : Alain Jacob
Publisher :
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 34,59 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Armor
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Author : Sotheby's (Firm)
Publisher :
Page : 958 pages
File Size : 40,43 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Art, Indic
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Author : Robert Elgood
Publisher :
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 33,46 MB
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN :
In the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries, the Arab nomads who inhabited a great stretch of the Near East from Aleppo in northern Syria to the southern shores of the Arabian peninsula continued a way of life virtually unchanged from the time of the Prophet Muhammad in the 7th century. Wars and raids were carried out by tribesmen armed like their ancestors with sword, mace and lance. Firearms came slowly to the Bedouin, and multishot weapons were very rare until the end of the 19th century.
