The Art and Architecture of Islam, 1250–1800 (The Yale University Press Pelican History of Art Series)

The Alhambra, the Taj Mahal and the Tahmasp “Shahnama, ” these masterpieces of Islamic art were produced during the period from the Mongol conquest in the early thirteenth century and the advent of European colonial rule in the nineteenth. This book surveys the arts and architecture of the traditional Islamic lands during this era.