Description:
A beautifully illustrated study of Al-Qazwini's 14th-century illustrated Arabic copy of a cosmographic encyclopedia entitled The Wonders of Creation and the Oddities of Existing Things, and the first-ever translations of the text into English.
Brief description: Stefano Carboni is the Director and CEO of the Art Gallery of Western Australia and Adjunct Professor at the University of Western Australia. He is author and editor of several books including Glass from Islamic Lands. The Al-Sabah Collection (2001) and Venice and the Islamic World 828-1797 (2007).