Books of The Tareq Rajab Museum
The Harmony of Letters
- Islamic Calligraphy from The Tareq Rajab Museum -
Nabil F. Safwat, Géza Fehérvári & Mohamed Zakariya
Nabil F. Safwat, Géza Fehérvári & Mohamed Zakariya
Author: Jehan S. Rajab
Publisher: Radcliffe Press
Publication Date: 31/12/1993
Print Length: 224 pages
ISBN-10: 1850437750
ISBN-13: 978-1850437758
In the form of a journal, this book tells the story of the author’s experiences in Kuwait during the Iraqi invasion. Jehan Rajab chronicles her fight to preserve normality in the face of persecution and to save the Tareq Rajab Museum, her workplace, from destruction.
Author: Jehan S. Rajab
Publisher: Kegan Paul International
Publication Date: 04/01/1989
Print Length: 256 pages
ISBN-10: 0710302835
ISBN-13: 978-0710302830
Through comparisons of styles, textiles, embroidery, and jewelry of townsfolk, villagers, and nomads in different regions, this book follows the development of styles from the early 1900’s to the present. Many photographs date to the time of British control; while later photographs are, more courteously, of costumes without people.
Author: Géza Fehérvári & Iman R. Abdulfattah
Publisher: Tareq Rajab Museum
Publication Date: 2012
Print Length: 110 pages
ISBN-10: 9948169360
The large, richly decorated metal door in the Tareq Rajab Museum in Kuwait exhibits a historical inscription giving the name and title of Mamlūk Sultan Barqūq, the founder of the line of the Burjī Mamlūks, and the date of completion as Rabi’ ul-Awwal, 788AH/AD April, 1386. In spite of this inscription some scholars claimed, that the door was made by an Egyptian metalworker towards the end of the 19th century. Decorative details, but more importantly, the chemical analyses which were carried out at the Oxford Archaeological Research Laboratory contratdict this, suggesting late dating.
Author: Tareq S. Rajab
Publisher: Tareq Rajab Museum
Publication Date: 01/01/2001
Print Length: 96 pages
In the development of fine art in Kuwait, Tareq S. Rajab explores his early years in Old Kuwait, during which, he developed a fascination and love for art. The book follows Tareq on his journey to Britain in 1953, after which, his life would change forever. The book encompasses many of Tareq’s drawings and paintings through the years, and allows the reader to observe the evolution of his work from the 1950’s through to the 1990’s.
Author: Géza Fehérvári
Publisher: I.B. Tauris
Publication Date: 31/12/1998
Print Length: 128 pages
ISBN-10: 1860643639
ISBN-13: 978-1860643637
Pottery of The Islamic World presents the history and development of Islamic pottery. This guide includes Islamic and Fatimid period lustre wares, early Persian lustre, rare items from the Ilkhanid period, and a wide variety of Timurid vessels.
Author: Jehan S. Rajab
Publisher: Tareq Rajab Museum
Publication Date: 08/09/2003
Print Length: 104 pages
ISBN-10: 9948851471
ISBN-13: 9789948851479
A Glimpse of the Marshes and the Marsh Arabs in the 1960’s takes a photographic look at their lives at that period. Not so long after that the water feeding the Marshes began to diminish. Saddam Hussein drained them almost completely and many Marsh people took refuge in Iran. Some fled to live in the towns in Iraq, and some were horribly massacred. Most of the marshes dried up to a cracked dusty, saline and barren desert. A way of life that had lasted for 5,000 years came to an end and a small but interesting lifestyle ended, so making the world a more arid and standardized place. There is probably an ecological price to be paid which will affect not just Iraq, but the whole Gulf area. At any rate, there are bound to be changes that will slowly make themselves apparent. Changes of this kind are not always beneficial.
Author: Nabil F. Safwat, Géza Fehérvári & Mohamed Zakariya
Publisher: Asian Civilisations Museum
Publication Date: 01/01/1997
Print Length: 120 pages
ISBN-10: 9813018755
ISBN-13: 978-9813018754
This book catalogues an exhibition at the Asian Civilisations Museum, Singapore, of objects drawn from the collection of the Tareq Rajab Museum, Kuwait. Islamic calligraphic art on manuscripts, textiles, and metal and ceramic objects is examined and beautifully illustrated.
Author: Jehan S. Rajab
Publisher: Tareq Rajab Museum
Publication Date: 31/12/1997
Print Length: 80 pages
ISBN-10: 1860643108
ISBN-13: 978-1860643101
The diversity of the Arabian Peninsula is seen not only in its landscapes and peoples, but also in its jewellery styles, which differ markedly from state to state. The Sultanate of Oman possessed, and still possesses, some of the most skilled silversmiths in Arabia. The silver jewellery they produce is of a quality and beauty unsurpassed in the Arab world, and this is an introduction to the subject. There are colour illustrations of khanjars (the characteristic T-shaped dagger of Oman), necklaces, anklets, bracelets, hair decorations and earrings, together with an informative textual background to their history, manufacture and styles.
Author: Denise Rajab
Publisher: Tareq Rajab Museum
Publication Date: 2013
Print Length: 162 pages
ISBN-10: 9948440803
Zsolnay Pottery spans over 150 years which has embraced many decorative elements of great artistic and historical interest. The period of Islamic influence is especially significant to any collector as many pieces are beginning to be exceptionally sought after. In recent years, the interest has turned towards the decorative arts of the Middle Eastern region. It is no surprise that the richly decorative form of ornament made a great impression on the European market in the 19th Century. So popular were these types of wares that many pottery workshops sent designers to the East to sketch elements of interest, enabling the production of pieces of pottery that were practically identical to many aspects of Islamic art.
This publication has been specifically written for amateur collectors and especially anyone interested in this particular development of Hungarian pottery. The description and analysis of pieces by comparison alongside objects from the Tareq Rajab Museum in Kuwait has been remarkable, and the similarities quite extraordinary.
Author: Denise Rajab
Publisher: Tareq Rajab Museum
Publication Date: 01/01/2006
Print Length: 300 pages
ISBN-10: 9948857429
ISBN-13: 978-9948857426
This simple biography of self-taught Victorian artist David Roberts RA is different from any other publications that have been written. This book contains a brief encounter of his life; it includes engravings of his trip to France, Spain and North Africa as well as the most famously known travels around Egypt, Nubia and the Holy Land.
It also contains some unpublished insights from his private letters housed at the National Library of Scotland.
David Roberts was born in 1796 to a poor family in Stockbridge on the outskirts of Edinburgh. As a small boy, he had been blessed with a rare talent, beginning his career as an apprentice and ending his life as one of the most respected Orientalists of the 19th Century.
This publication gives a good encounter of his work as well as his generous and sometimes troubled life. Although he lived most of his life in London, he never lost his Scottish mannerism that stayed with him until his death in 1864.
Author: Géza Fehérvári
Publisher: I.B. Tauris
Publication Date: 1/04/2000
Print Length: 448 pages
ISBN-10: 1860644309
ISBN-13: 9781860644306
Geza Fehervari presents the history of ceramics in the Islamic world through a wide and comprehensive collection of objects spanning all periods and regions of the Islamic world, including the results of the author’s own excavations in Iran, Egypt and North Africa. In discussing the alluring tile work of the Islamic artistic tradition, particularly the faience mosaics found in Iran and Central Asia during the fourteenth century, the author also discusses buildings which were decorated by this technique. Ceramics of the Islamic World draws largely on the rich collection of the Tareq Rajab Museum, with its great strength in early Islamic pottery.
Author: Jehan S. Rajab
Publisher: Tareq Rajab Museum
Publication Date: January 1999
Print Length: 147 pages
“Failaka Island – Ikaros of the Arabian Gulf” by Jehan Sayid Rajab is a record of times spent on a beautiful island. The limitless charms of Failaka captivated Jehan from the very first. Its long and in many ways obscure history still contains many puzzles. Even the well-documented Greek period of Alexander the Great leaves many questions unanswered. Its ancient name remains a mystery and no one has found a plausible explanation of its origin, although the one the author argues has some strengths.
This is not a scientific analysis of the social and cultural strata of the population of the island of Failaka, nor is it a detailed historical study of its ancient past. This is an illustrated introduction to the island as we knew it in the early 1960’s and a reminder of its endless charms before the final destruction by the Iraqi invaders in 1990.
Author: Jehan S. Rajab & Tareq S. Rajab
Publisher: Tareq Rajab Museum
Publication Date: 01/01/2004
Print Length: 158 pages
ISBN-10: 9948851498
ISBN-13: 9789948851493
Doors have always played a pivotal role in architecture and are focal points in any house. When houses had simple exteriors; doors were lavished with all that was lacking in the facade of the building. The Middle East has had a long door making tradition and the Arabian Peninsula countries from Kuwait to the Yemen have created beautiful examples which have influenced countries as far a field as East Africa and India.
Author: Jehan S. Rajab
Publisher: Tareq Rajab Museum
Publication Date: January 2002
Print Length: 52 pages
ISBN-10: 9948851404
ISBN-13: 9789948851400
Costumes from The Arab World illustrates a few of the Tareq Rajab Museum’s dresses and gives some information about them. There is an amazing amount of history and background connected to the costumes, but it is not true they remained static over a long period. Nothing remains static with folk costumes as other influences and different materials and colours appear and tastes always change slightly. One example might be the huge sleeves (possibly originating with the Mongols) on some of the Jordanian tribal dresses. Over time the sleeves have shrunk and almost disappeared to be now held behind the shoulders with a strap. Hand embroidery is hardly ever worked now. One goes to a dressmaker and machine embroideress and looks through her swatch of patterns and chooses the colours of the embroidery threads. The result is always delightful and this pays tribute to the sense of colour and design that the women still show so clearly. It will be a sad day when these dresses disappear in favour of the modern fashion of ‘globalisation’.
Author: Tareq S. Rajab
Publisher: Tareq Rajab Museum
Publication Date: 01/01/1997
Print Length: 227 pages
“Glimpses From the Recent Past Kuwait 1960-1965″” provides a selection of photographs taken by Tareq S. Rajab from 1960-1965 to illustrate some of the extensive changes that ultimately transformed the image of Kuwait entirely. .
Author: Tareq S. Rajab
Publisher: Tareq Rajab Museum
Publication Date: 01/01/2003
Print Length: 273 pages
ISBN-10: 9948851463
ISBN-13: 978-9948851462
“Glimpses from Kuwait 60-06” provides a selection of photographs taken by Tareq S. Rajab from 1960-2006 to illustrate some of the extensive changes that ultimately transformed the image of Kuwait entirely. Originally nicknamed “The Pearl of The Gulf”, the discovery of oil in 1946 would change Kuwait forever, with the charming and handsome architecture of the old city ultimately giving way to the alien architecture of modern concrete buildings.
Author: Tareq S. Rajab
Publisher: Tareq Rajab Museum
Publication Date: 01/01/2005
Print Length: 234 pages
ISBN-10: 9948857402
“Glimpses From The Recent Past Kuwait 1960-1980 (Part II) provides a selection of photographs taken by Tareq S. Rajab from 1960-1980 to illustrate some of the extensive changes that ultimately transformed the image of Kuwait entirely.
Author: Jehan S. Rajab
Publisher: Radcliffe Press
Publication Date: 31/12/1999
Print Length: 176 pages
ISBN-10: 1860645496
ISBN-13: 9781860645495
Born abroad into a professional British family, the author grew up in the typical colonial environment to which the English middle class exported their lifestyle and tastes. Rajab, now married to a Kuwaiti, has combined her mother’s recipes with the chronicle of a childhood from a bygone world.
