HeyJaredZubair’s Bookshelf
Non-fiction treasures for the seeking soul —largely from the radiant realms of the East. Let the illumination begin!
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Expanding Contexts: Shifting Horizons in Islamic Art and Architecture (opens the original)
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What does the field of Islamic art history look like when its contexts keep expanding? And what new questions emerge when historians gather to test the boundaries of their discipline, from mosque architecture in heartland China to the arts of the early modern empires?<source type="im
What the Classics Did for Islam (opens the original)
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Did you know that the Quran contains Greek stories, or that an Ottoman sultan once visited Troy to admire the graves of Homer's heroes? What did the classical inheritance of Greece and Rome actually do for Islam?<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="19
Threads of Destiny: Kashmir, Paisley and the History of the Pashmina Shawl (opens the original)
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How did a tear-drop motif born in the looms of Kashmir come to bear the name of a Scottish mill town? And what happened when the fates of handloom weavers on two continents, thousands of miles apart, became unexpectedly intertwined?<img alt="" class="sizin
Palestine: A Primer (opens the original)
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How do you tell the story of the last hundred years of Palestine so that anyone—from a student to a general reader—can truly understand it? And what does that history look like when told by a family that has walked the streets of Jerusalem for a thousand years?<source typ
Empires of Faith: The History of the Middle East (opens the original)
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How did one region become the birthplace of the world’s great faiths and the crossroads of its mightiest empires? And why is understanding the Middle East’s deep past essential to making sense of its turbulent present?<img alt="" class="sizing-n
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