Treasures of Islam

Treasures of Islam presents a vivid portrait of the culturalheritage of Islam and its great treasures - an illuminatingcommentary places the creations of Muslim craftspeople in the appropriate geographical, historical and artistic contexts and explains the significance of the faith?s use of colour andtexture, through calligraphy, sculpture, architecture and manyother art forms. Although Islam is the most recent of the majormonotheistic traditions to have emerged, it has produced oneof the most glorious cultural legacies of any of the great faiths.For more than a millennium Islam?s faithful followers havecreated a rich legacy of sacred art and architecture, from lucid religious texts to some of the most spiritually upliftingbuildings ever constructed.