Description

Wonders of Creation: Art, Science, and Innovation in the Islamic World explores intersections of art and science in Islamic intellectual and visual culture from the 8th century to the present day using the lens of “wonder” as defined by the celebrated 13th-century Islamic cosmography, The Wonders of Creation and Rarities of Existence. This influential text describing the wonders of the universe was written in Arabic and Persian by the scholar Zakariyya ibn Muhammad al-Qazwini (d. 1283).

Hardcover
285 Pages