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'A truly extraordinary achievement...demonstrates a history which has never been clarified before and provides a truly stunning sequence of drawings. Both drawings and explanations are novel and original.' Olegar Grabar, Times Literary Supplement 'A splendid volume...A true model for analytical writing about architecture.' J.M.Rogers, Bulletin of the school of Oriental and African Studies

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Antonio Fernandez-Puertas has been studying the Alhambra palaces since 1968 and was director of the Museo Nacional de Arte Hispanomusulman until 1992. In 1980-81 he won the chair of Muslim Art at the University of Granada and now devotes his time to research and university lecturing. A member of numerous prestigious Spanish and foreign learned institutions, he has published extensively on Hispano-Muslim art and its antecedents in Oriental Umayyad art, as well as on the epigraphy of Islamic Spain and Fatimid Egypt. He is acknowledged as the outstanding world authority on Nasrid art and the Alhambra.

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