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Oleg Grabar, The Formation of Islamic Art (New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1973). Pp. 19+ 227; 131 illustrations.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2009

Michael G. Morony
Michael G. Morony
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University of California, Los Angeles
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International Journal of Middle East Studies , Volume 6 , Issue 4 , October 1975 , pp. 514 - 520
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1975

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References

page 516 note 1 Ettinghausen, Richard, From Byzantium to Sasanian Iran and the Islamic World (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1972), pp. 1–2.Google Scholar

page 516 note 2 Wendell, Charles, ‘Baghdâd: Imago Mundi, and Other Foundation Lore’, International Journal of Middle East Studies, 2 (1971), 99–128.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

page 519 note 1 Wensinck, A. J., Mystic Treatises by Isaac of Nineveh (Amsterdam: Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen, 1923), p. 6. In fact this attitude is already present in the Talmudic statement that an artist can ‘draw a figure on a wall but he cannot invest it with breath and spirit, bowels and intestines’, that only God can create life (B. Ber. 10a).Google Scholar