Carswell, the former Director of the Islamic Department at Sotheby's, introduces Iznik ceramics in eight chapters with approximately 100 color and b&w illustrations. This style of the Ottoman Empi
In the summer of 1974, against the backdrop of the Lebanese Civil War, ceramics expert and Morgan sports car enthusiast John Carswell set off with his young family from their home in Beirut on an expe
In this classic work George Hourani deals with the history of the sea trade of the Arabs in the Indian Ocean from its obscure origins many centuries before Christ to the time of its full extension to
