The Art and Architecture of Islam 1250-1800

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The Art and Architecture of Islam 1250-1800 is written by Sheila S. Blair and published by Yale University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0300064659 (ISBN 10) and 9780300064650 (ISBN 13).

They discuss, for example, how the universal caliphs of the first six centuries gave way to regional rulers and how, in this new world order, Iranian forms, techniques, and motifs played a dominant role in the artistic life of most of the Muslim world; the one exception was the Maghrib, an area protected from the full brunt of the Mongol invasions, where traditional models continued to inspire artists and patrons. By the sixteenth century, say the authors, the eastern Mediterranean under the Ottomans and the area of northern India under the Mughals had become more powerful, and the Iranian models of early Ottoman and Mughal art gradually gave way to distinct regional and imperial styles.