Islamic Art and Patronage, Riyadh
This catalogue was printed for the Islamic Art & Patronage exhibition at The National Museum, King Abdul Aziz Historical Centre-Riyadh, 2000 featuring coloured photos of the pieces in the exhibition, with details in Arabic & English – and a brief of the different periods of art from Islamic lands.
Islamic Art and Patronage, Cairo
This catalogue was printed for the Islamic Art & Patronage exhibition at Mohammad Mahmoud Khalil Museum, Cairo 1999 featuring coloured photos of the pieces in the exhibition, with details in Arabic & English – and a brief of the different periods of art from Islamic lands.
Islamic Art in the Kuwait National Museum
An introduction to The al-Sabah Collection and a commemorative volume marking the opening of the new Museum of Islamic Art in the Kuwait National Museum (1983).
Européenennes sur la Civilisation Islamique & Arabe
A catalogue on the occasion of the exhibition of the first European publications on the Arabic-Islamic civilisation from The al-Sabah Collection, Dar al-Athar al-Islamiyyah, on display at the Institut de Monde Arabe in Paris 1989
Al-Fann: Art from the Islamic Civilization from The al-Sabah Collection
This volume illustrates 300 from among the most beautiful objects in The al-Sabah collection and, for those exploring the Islamic world for the first time, describes its culture and art on a chronological (from the early days to the great sixteenth-century empires) and thematic basis (calligraphy, geometric decoration, arabesques and figurative art). Lastly, there is a section dedicated to jewels, for which the collection is renowned worldwide.
Splendors of the Ancient East: Antiquities from The al-Sabah Collection
This 2013 exhbition catalogue presents a selection of ancient artefacts from The al-Sabah Collection, most of them displayed for the first time. It illustrates 100 of the most beautiful and important ancient objects in the Collection, most never before reproduced in print. Covering a time span of some 4,000 years, from the Bronze Age up to the dawn of the Islamic era, ‘Splendors of the Ancient East’ presents some of the most beautiful objects in the Near East and beyond including Central and South Asia.
Ziena Splendor of the Indian Courts
The Selection of objects shown in this book are all from The al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait. The Indian subcontinent is a land naturally rich in gems and original home of the connoisseurship of gemstones and jewelled arts. From ancient times its master jewellers developed a wide array of unique techniques and made it home to the most highly developed range of jewelled arts on earth.
Treasury of the World: Jewelled Arts of India in the Age of the Mughals
The jewelled arts are more higly developed in the Indian Subcontinent than anywhere else in the world and reached their peak in the period of the Mughals. This full-colour presentation of its fabulously varied achievements, with over 300 photographs accompanied the major exhibition of the same title, which opened at the British Museum, London in mid-2001, then to 11 major museums in the USA, Europe, Russia and the Far East until returning to Kuwait in 2011.
Metalwork from the Arab World and the Mediterranean
This volume, the latest in the series on the treasures of The al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait, presents metalwork made in Multiple Islamic countries from the early Islamic period through the end of the Ottoman era in the nineteenth century. The pieces include exquisite platters, serving vessels, candlesticks, and pen boxes produced for royal courts, in addition to many beautifully decorated bronze domestic items, such as bowls, lunch boxes, door knockers, buckets, and lamps.
The book was published in English and it includes documented definitions in Arabic of the art pieces depicted in the book, which amount to 350 color illustrations.
Carpets from Islamic Lands
This catalogue features more than forty of the finest classical carpets created in Egypt, turkey, Persia, the Caucasus and India between 16th and 19th centuries, along with several important pre-Islamic carpet fragments. It describes this spectacular collection in the context of the history of Islamic art, recounting the fascinating stories behind individual carpets and celebrating their intricate designs and unparalleled craftsmanship.
