| The Prince's School of Traditional Arts | University of Waterloo PhD thesis |
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| Timurid Art and Culture — Iran and Central Asia in the Fifteenth Century eds Golombek, L | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History |
| van den Hoeven, Saskia, van der Veen, Maartje | |
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| The aim, however, is never merely to ornament, but rather to transfigure | Much of the art of Islam, whether in architecture, ceramics, textiles or books, is the art of decoration — which is to say, of transformation |