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Falnama: The book of omens. With contributions Maria Mavroudi, Kathryn Babayan, Cornell H. Fleischer,Julia Bailey, Wheeler M. Thackston, Jr., and Sergei Tourkin.

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Falnama: The book of omens. With contributions Maria Mavroudi, Kathryn Babayan, Cornell H. Fleischer,Julia Bailey, Wheeler M. Thackston, Jr., and Sergei Tourkin.

by Edited by MASSUMEH FARHAD, SERPIL BAGCI

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Washington D.C.: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery / Smithsonian Institution, 2009. Soft cover. New. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Paperback. Folio. (32 x 24 cm). In English. 346, [2] p., color ills. Falnama: The book of omens. With contributions Maria Mavroudi, Kathryn Babayan, Cornell H. Fleischer,Julia Bailey, Wheeler M. Thackston, Jr., and Sergei Tourkin. Whether by consulting the position of the planets, casting horoscopes or interpreting dreams, the art of divination was widely practised throughout the Islamic world. The most splendid tools ever devised to foretell the future were illustrated texts known as the "Falnama" ("Book of Omens"). Notable for their monumental size, brilliantly painted compositions and unusual subject matter, the manuscripts, created in Safavid Iran and Ottoman Turkey in the 16th and early 17th centuries, are the centre piece of "Falnama: The Book of Omens". This is the first book ever devoted to these extraordinary manuscripts, which remain largely unpublished, and sheds new light on their artistic, cultural and religious significance.

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Khalkedon Rare Books, IOBA, ESA TR (TR)
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Title
Falnama: The book of omens. With contributions Maria Mavroudi, Kathryn Babayan, Cornell H. Fleischer,Julia Bailey, Wheeler M. Thackston, Jr., and Sergei Tourkin.
Author
Edited by MASSUMEH FARHAD, SERPIL BAGCI
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Soft cover
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Paperback
Publisher
Arthur M. Sackler Gallery / Smithsonian Institution
Place of Publication
Washington D.C.
Date Published
2009
Size
Folio - over 12 - 15" tall
Keywords
ORT Islamic manuscripts of the Collection Omen Ottoman History of the arts Art Turkish and Islamic art
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Turkish and Islamic art;

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Khalkedon Books is selling rare, collectible and scholarly books on Turkish and Islamic world from Central Asia to Andalusia since 2009 with a speciality books, documents in Ottoman Turkish and manuscripts. Khalkedon Books has a large catalog which you may make detailed search about archaeology, architecture, Turkish and Islamic arts, Turkology, Turkish / Turkic linguistica, numismatics, Middle East, sufizm, travel books, Turkish painting, Byzantium, Alevism and Bektashism, memoirs, Kurds, Lazs, Caucasus, Balkans, Armenians, Judaica, Greeks, Photography, Ottomania, Seljuks subjects etc. We have a bookstore in Kadikoy (with its ancient name: Khalkedon) and we now hold more than 100,000 titles in two huge warehouses in Istanbul except our bookstore. We are member of IOBA (Independent Online Bookseller Association) since 2015 and your orders will be shipped in three business days by registered with a tracking number. Therefore we send all of our books guaranteed.

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