is essentially religious, and the offspring of the Koran, as Gothic architecture is of the Bible ; the prohibition to represent animal life caused them to seek for other means of decoration— inscriptions from the Koran, interwoven with geometrical... Mahometanism - Página 86por John Gibson Cazenove - 1856 - 128 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| University magazine - 1846 - 780 páginas
...religious, and the offspring of the Koran, as Gothic architecture is of the Bible. The prohibition to represent animal life, caused them to seek for...decidedly from nature, but translated through the loom ; lor it would seem that the Arabs in changing their wandering for a settled life, in striking the... | |
| 1855 - 1394 páginas
...religious, and the offspring of the Koran, as Gothic ' architecture is of the Bible. The prohibition to represent ' animal life, caused them to seek for...plant it in a form more solid, had transferred the luxu' rious shawls and hangings of Cashmere, which had adorned their ' former dwellings, to their new,... | |
| Richard Ford - 1855 - 518 páginas
...religious, and the offspring of the Koran, as Gothic architecture is of the Bible. The prohibition to represent animal life caused them to seek for other...would seem that the Arabs, in changing their wandering fora settled life, in striking the tent to plant it .in a form more solid, had transferred the luxurious... | |
| John Murray (Firm) - 1855 - 544 páginas
...religious, and the offspring of the Koran, as Gothic architecture is of the Bible. The prohibition to represent animal life caused them to seek for other...through the loom ; for it would seem that the Arabs, in chancing their wandering fora settled life, in striking the tent to plant it in a form more solid,... | |
| Robert Scott Burn - 1857 - 138 páginas
...interwoven with geometrical ornaments and flowers, not drawn directly from nature, but translated from the loom ; for it would seem that the Arabs, in changing their wandering for a settled life — supplanting the tent by a form more solid — had transferred the luxurious shawls and hangings... | |
| William Henry Davenport Adams - 1866 - 138 páginas
...religious, and the offspring of the Koran, as Gothic architecture is of the Kible. The prohibition to represent animal life caused them to seek for other means of decoration—inscriptions from the Koran, interwoven -with geometrical ornaments and flowers, not drawn... | |
| H. Alcmar - 1877 - 376 páginas
...religious, and the offspring of the Koran, as Gothic architecture is of the Bible ; the prohibition to represent animal life caused them to seek for other...striking the tent to plant it in a form more solid, has transferred the luxurious shawls and hangings of Cashmere, which had adorned their former dwellings,... | |
| Ronda - 1883 - 304 páginas
...religious, and the offspring of the Koran, as Gothic architecture is of the Bible ; the prohibition to represent animal life caused them to seek for other...striking the tent to plant it in a form more solid, have transferred the luxurious shawls and hangings of Cashmere, which had adorned their former dwellings,... | |
| 1841 - 436 páginas
...essentially religious — the offspring of the Koran, as Gothic architecture of the Bible. The prohibition to represent animal life caused them to seek for other...through the loom ; for it would seem that the Arabs in exchanging their wandering for a settled life — in striking the tent to plant it in a form more solid,... | |
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