Islamic Art and Literature Author:Grabar, Oleg All he wanted was a

All he wanted was a girlfriend

With the help of an old slave

it wasn't so easy to leave religion behind

and the methods of Hadith criticism (al-jarh wa al-ta'dil) and classification

Islamic Art and Literature Author:Grabar, Oleg All he wanted was aEdited by Oleg Grabar, one of the leading experts in Islamic art history, along with Cynthia Robinson, this book breaks new ground in the field of Middle Eastern art history. While illuminated manuscripts from Persia and the Arab world are outstanding masterpieces of art, only recent scholarship in Islamic visual culture includes written sources in its consideration of the relationships between the textual and visual worlds. Likewise, scholars of