Islamic Bindings and Bookmaking
FAIN: GM-*1740-80
University of Chicago (Chicago, IL 60637-5418)
John Carswell (Project Director: February 1980 to October 1990)
To support an interpretive exhibition of Islamic medieval bookbinding showing the art and craft of Islamic book production and the importance of the Islamic book, especially the Qur'an, in the culture and life of the Islamic world.