Early Islamic Textiles from Along the Silk Road: The al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait Religion & Spirituality the distinctive landscapes in which

the distinctive landscapes in which they are set

Charles Pictet

and Mickalene Thomas

The man who commissioned it

Early Islamic Textiles from Along the Silk Road: The al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait Religion & Spirituality the distinctive landscapes in whichA remarkable collection of textiles made in Islamic lands and traded along the Silk Road, most of which are published here in paperback for the first time. The al Sabah Collection, Kuwait, holds a spectacular array of ancient textiles created in Islamic lands, mostly from the ninth to the fifteenth centuries CE, and traded along the Silk Road, the network of ancient trade routes that linked China, Central Asia, and the Mediterranean for more than