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Part One: The “Elements” of Sciences and Crafts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2022

Carol Bier*
Affiliation:
The Textile Museum, Washington, DC, USA
Elaheh Kheirandish*
Affiliation:
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

Abstract

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Copyright © Association For Iranian Studies, Inc 2008

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References

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2 Özdural, Alpay, “Omar Khayyam, Mathematicians and Conversazione with the Artisans,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 54 (1995): 5471CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Özdural, Alpay, “Mathematics and Arts: Connections between Theory and Practice in the Medieval Islamic World,” Historia Mathematica, 27 (2000): 171201CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Saliba, George, “Artisans and Mathematicians in Medieval Islam,” Journal of the American Oriental Society, 119/4 (1999): 637645CrossRefGoogle Scholar, review of Gulru Necipoğlu, The Topkapı Scroll: Geometry and Ornament in Islamic Architecture (Topkapı Palace Museum Library MS H., 1956) with an essay on the geometry of muqarnas by M. al-Asad (Santa Monica, 1995).