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Bibliography - Middle Eastern Arts, Culture and History

An excellent source of inspiration for costume design are the arts and crafts from the around the Middle East. This list of books includes works that discuss cultural production throughout Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia and India. Many of these works are exhibition catalogs that include a great deal of luscious imagery. Unfortunately, art books are frequently expensive and go out of print quickly.

Ammoun, Denise. Crafts of Egypt. American University of Cairo Press: Cairo 1991.

Basilov, Vladimir. Nomads of Eurasia. University of Washington Press: Seattle 1989.

Bloom, Jonathan and Sheila S. Blair. Islamic Arts. Phaidon Press:New York 1997.

Brend, Barbara. Islamic Art. Harvard University Press: Cambridge, Mass. 1991.

Farooqi, Anis. Art of India and Persia. D. K. Publishers' Distribuaters: New Delhi 1979.

Irwin, Robert. Islamic Art in Context: Art, Architecture and the Literary World. Harry N. Abrams:New York 1997.

Islam in the Balkans: Persian Art and Culture of the 18th and 19th Centuries. Royal Scottish Museum: Edinburgh 1979.

Jereb, James F. Arts and Crafts of Morocco. Chronicle Books: San Francisco 1995.

Khalter, Johannes. The Arts and Crafts of Syria. Thames and Hudson: London 1992.

Khalter, Johannes. The Arts and Crafts of Turkestan. Thames and Hudson: New York 1983.

Khalter, Johannes. Heirs to the Silk Road: Uzbekistan. Tames and Hudson: New York 1997.

Lewis, Barnard. The World of Islam: Faith, People, Culture. W. W. Norton & Co.: New York 1992.

Pope, Arthur Upham. A Survey of Persian Art from Prehistoric Times to the Present. Oxford University Press: London 1964-65.

Rice, David T. Constantinople from Byzantium to Istanbul. Stein and Day: New York 1965.

Rice, David T. Islamic Art. Praeger: New York 1965.

Rogers, J. M. Mughal Miniatures. Thames and Hudson: London 1993.

Titley, Norah M. Persian Painting: Fourteenth Century. Marg/Arnold-Heinemann: New Delhi 1977.

Topham, John. Traditional Crafts of Saudi Arabia. Stacey International: London 1981.

Welch, Stuart Cary. Persian Painting. George Braziller: New York 1996.