{[Islamic Art –] Visual Arts [continued –] Early and Middle Periods of Islamic Art [continued (3)]}[20th April 1991]

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‘Middle period

‘The middle period in the development of Islamic art extends roughly from the year 1000[ce] to 1500[ce],* when** a strong central power*** with occasional regional political independence was replaced by a bewildering mosaic of overlapping dynasties. Ethnically this was the time of major Turkish and Mongol invasions that brought into the Muslim world new peoples and institutions. At the same time, Berbers, Kurds and Iranians, who had been within the empire since the beginning of Islam, began to play far more effective historical and cultural roles, short-lived for the Kurds, but uniquely important for the Iranians.

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*2048A~1024|J~1280|G~1536

**ie c[irca]1000[ce](ff?)

***ie c[irca]634[ce ] - c[irca]1000[ce]

****– ibid [Encyclopaedia Britannica 22:] 84-85

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