A Garden for the Sultan


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The Sultan's Garden


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"First published on the occasion of the exhibition ... the Textile Museum, Wasghinton, D.C., October 15, 2011-February 12, 2012"--T.p. verso.




A Garden for the Sultan


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The Garden


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The Sultan's Garden


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First published on the occasion of the exhibition 'The Sultan's Garden: The Blossoming of Ottoman Art' at the Textile Museum, Washington, D.C., September 21, 2012-March 10, 2013.




Gardens in the Time of the Great Muslim Empires


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Interest in the Islamic garden has increased considerably in the past years, to such a point where a conference specifically on this subject was held at M.I.T. in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1994. This volume collects eight papers from the conference and two additional papers especially written for the book, to further and act as a basis for the attention given by scholars these days to Islamic landscape architecture.




Marrakesh


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There are two cities in Marrakesh - the first, the capital, is geometrically and secretly laid out.




The Gardens of Their Dreams


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This history relates the human consequences of the remorseless spread of the Great Desert that now stretches in almost unbroken continuity from Mauritania's Atlantic seaboard through the Middle East and Central Asia to the Great Wall of China. The author seeks to understand how the great civilizations in the original green lands of North Africa, Ancient Egypt, the Middle East, South Asia and China responded and changed under the pressure of invaders fleeing growing environmental degradation in the surrounding deserts.







A Turkish and English Lexicon


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