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* O'Kane, Bernard. Treasures of Islam: Artistic Glories of the Muslim World. Duncan Baird, dist. by Sterling. 2007. 224p. photogs. bibliog. index. ISBN 978-1-84483483-9. $35. DEC ARTS
The Islamic religion and its cultural influences stretch far and wide across the Asian, Arab, and Mediterranean lands extending from western China and India in the east to Spain and Morocco in the west. O'Kane's (The Iconography of Islamic Art) remarkable book captures the beauty and elegance of Islam's most notable architectural sites and artifacts. These treasures are grouped into chapters relating to Islam's origins and empire as well as its various regional leaders and dynasties; the …