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.
Islamic Art and Patronage
This publication serves as a catalogue of an exhibition of more than 100 objects from The al-Sabah Collection as well as a group of essays tracing the evolution of Islamic art and patronage. This travelling exhibition opened at the Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg in 1990, travelled for almost 20 years to 23 museums throughout the world, until returning home to Kuwait in 2009.
Islamic Art and Patronage, Sharjah
This catalogue was reprinted for the IAP exhibition at Sharjah Museum of Islamic Civilization, Sharjah, UAE 2008 featuring coloured photos of the 109 pieces in the exhibition, with details in Arabic & English – and a brief of the different periods of art from Islamic lands.
Pre-Islamic Carpets and Textiles from Eastern Lands
This book features a unique collection of carpets and textile fragments from the pre-Islamic and early Islamic world. The Sasanian fragments fill a substantial gap in the early history of pile carpets, dating from the second to the eighth century AD, and make a valuable contribution of the understanding of local artistic traditions. The second half of the book is devoted to post-Sasanian and Sogdian silks dating from the sixth to the tenth century.
Chess and Other Games Pieces from Islamic Lands
10th in a series of T&H publications on The al-Sabah Collection, this book provides the definitive catlogue of this outstanding group of games pieces, with more than 300 striking new images. Specially commissioned scientific testing has allowed many of these objects to be dated with precision for the first time. An additional section listing medieval chessmen from museums and private collections worldwide, some previously unpublished, adds a unique contextual dimension.
Arts of the Hellenized East
The al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait, houses one of the world’s most spectacular collections of ancient silver vessels and other objects made of precious metals. Dating from the centuries following Alexander the Great’s conquest of Iran and Bactria in the middle of the 4th century BCE up to the advent of the Islamic era, the beautiful bowls, drinking vessels, platters and other objects in this catalogue suggest that some of the best Hellenistic silverwork was not made in the Greek heartlands, but in this eastern outpost of the Seleucid empire. 6th in the T&H series on TASC.
TOMBSTONES in Dar al-Athar al-Islamiyyah, Kuwait
This 1989 study of Islamic tombstones held in The al-Sabah Collection provides extensive information about the documentative nature of such pieces. The book also looks at the historic significance, intrinsic beauty and the craftsmanship involved in creating each tombstone.
