Home / Browse / Art, Architecture & Design / Athar al-Islam w al-tarikhiya fi al-Ithiad al-Sufiyati. [Historical Monuments Of Islam in the U.S.S.R.]

BABAKHANOV, Ziyautdin (intro.)

Athar al-Islam w al-tarikhiya fi al-Ithiad al-Sufiyati. [Historical Monuments Of Islam in the U.S.S.R.]

Publisher: Tashkent: Moslem Religious Board of Central Asia and Kazakhstan, 1970

Stock code: 59894

Price: £500 Currency Conversion

First edition. Superb photographic record of Islamic buildings of the former Soviet Union in Central Asia - Samarkand, Shah-i-Zindah Mausoleum, Bibi Khanum Mosque, Gur Amir Mausoleum, Ullug Beg madrasah &c.; Bokhara, Mir-i-Arab madrasah, Khoja Zaineddin mosque, Kalan minaret &c.; also Khiva, Baku, Makhichevan. Uncommon in such a nice condition, with the integral slip-case.

Folio (400 × 300 mm). Original green cloth, title in white to spine and in black to upper board, green top-stain. In the original decorative card slip-case. 135 plates, 89 of them in colour, 48 pages of text in Arabic, Persian and Urdu, loosely inserted 55-page pamphlet with text translated into Russian, English and French. Spine a touch sunned, the slip-case a little rubbed, but an exceptionally well-preserved copy.

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