Glass from Islamic Lands

The wonder and vitality of Islamic glass are revealed in this extraordinary publication, the first major study in over seventy years.

Glass objects rarely bear inscriptions that provide vital information, and throughout history they were shipped long distances, often to be discarded or melted and re-formed. In a triumph of patient scholarship, Stefano Carboni draws on a huge range of sources in many languages and from many disciplines in order to overcome these research difficulties. The boo...