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Title: International studio
Year: 1897 (1890s)
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Subjects: Art Decoration and ornament
Publisher: New York
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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madeliels of Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Syria; then, in041 at Nehavend, not far from the southern shoresof the Caspian, they gained a decisive victoryover Persia. Accepting Islam, she became a mereprovince of the huge empire, the Caliphate, com-
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PORTRAIT, PROBABL1 1l ill! VOI NC SHAH TAHMASP,\:\ SULTAN MAHMUD PROPERTY 01 BOSTON MIII I IX! \RTS M A K ( II ICJ22 twenty-one inceRnAcionAL posed of all the lands conquered by the Arabs,the whole of Spain save Asturias being ere longadded to the domain. There is no reason to suppose that the Arabs,at the date of Nehavend, were fitted to giveartistic tuition to Persia. During long centuriesbefore this she had been famous in main crafts.And nearly all the finest of the earlier mosques,built in Syria and Mesopotamia, were designed byarchitects bom vanquished Iran. Nevertheless,made as she was, by her conquest, a part of thesame realm as Egypt, she was brought into con-siderably closer touch than she had knownrecently, with the immemorial Egyptian culture.And the Arabs having intercourse with Byzan-tium, acquaintance with her art likewise shortlygrew much wider with the Persians than everheretofore. Centuries prior to the advent olIslam, Egypt had fashioned books, with pictorialembellis

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