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It is a sign of the growing maturity of the field of Islamic art history that there are already many introductory surveys. Some attempt to cover all regions and periods, though it is more common for these books to establish chronological and geographical boundaries. More recently, introductions to the study of Islamic material and visual…
Detail of Buddha image in carved into the rock face in mahāparinibbāṇa on the Phu Wiang Mountain range, Chaiyaphum province, Thailand. Late 8th to early 9th century. Author’s photograph. The Khorat Plateau is a landscape of some 155,000 square kilometres of what is now northeast Thailand and central Laos. Despite the rich evidence for the…