TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lerner,Mike
AU  - Bluemel,James
AU  - Januszczak,Waldemar
ED  - Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)  
TI  - Islamic art: India and the Middle East 
T2  - Films for humanities & sciences
AV  - N6260 .I823 2007
PY  - 2007///], c2005
CY  - Princeton, N.J.
PB  - Films for the Humanities & Sciences, 
KW  - Jāmi‘ al-Umawī al-Kabīr (Damascus, Syria)
KW  - Islamic art
KW  - History.
KW  - Islamic architecture
KW  - India.
KW  - Middle East.
KW  - Taj Mahal (Agra, India)
N1  - Music, Simon Russell; camera, Simon Niblett; editor, Oscar Chan; Narrator, Waldemar Januszczak
N2  - "In this program, art critic Waldemar Januszczak travels through the heart of the Middle East and beyond to study a wide range of Islamic architecture, decoration, and art objects. Providing helpful historical background on the       faith -- with an eye on the explosive spread of early Islamic culture -- the program examines the pristine beauty of India's Taj Mahal as well as one of the world's oldest surviving mosques, and what may be its most     spectacular: the Great Mosque in the Syrian capital of Damascus. Dispelling the myth that Islam forbids all pictorial images, Januszczak analyzes mosaics commissioned by Umayyad caliphs Al-Walid I and II -- including one     uninhabited cityscape that seems to depict heavenly paradise." -- Container
ER  -