The Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts: thirteen centuries of glory from the Umayyads to the Ottomans

Abstract

"Exhibiting the largest hand-made carpet collection in the world (1,700 pieces), the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts is a unique place to visit in Istanbul, Turkey. This album presents the best samples from among a large inventory of forty thousand pieces of Islamic art that represent not only Seljuk and Ottoman empires but also Umayyads, Abbasids, Andalusia, Safavid Empire, and other Muslim states and civilizations across North Africa and Caucasia. Alongside carpet exhibition, the museum also hosts 13,000 manuscripts, a beautiful collection of wooden works, tiles, stone pieces, and other samples of Islamic decorative arts."--BOOK JACKET.