Book of gifts and rarities = Kitab al-hadāyā wa al-tuḥaf : selections compiled in the fifteenth century from an eleventh-century manuscript on gifts and treasures / translated from the Arabic, with introduction, annotations, glossary, appendices, and indices by Ghāda al Hijjāwī al-Qaddūmī ; forewords by Oleg Grabar and Annemarie Schimmel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ibn al-Zubayr, Aḥmad ibn al-Rashīd, active 11th century.

Contributor:

Qaddūmī, Ghādah Ḥijjāwī.

Series:

Harvard Middle Eastern monographs ; 29.

Harvard Middle Eastern monographs ; 29

Language:

Arabic

English

Subjects (All):

Islamic art objects.

Physical Description:

xiv, 535 pages, 18 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 21 cm.

Other Title:

Kitāb al-hadāyā wa al-tuḥaf

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Distributed for the Center for Middle Eastern Studies of Harvard University by Harvard University Press, [1996]

Summary:

This work is a translation and study of a ninth- through fifteenth-century manuscript, "Kitab al-Hadaya wa al-Tuhaf." The manuscript furnishes a wealth of varied information offering insights into the period immediately preceding Islam and extending through the first four centuries of Islamic rule.

Notes:

Attributed to al-Rashīd ibn al-Zubayr.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [401]-409) and index.

ISBN:

0932885136

OCLC:

55746924