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ajiss-963	Gaber, Tammy	Islamic Geometric Design: By Eric Broug (New York: Thames & Hudson, 2013. 256 pages full color.)	2015.0	5	.pdf	application/pdf	1773	70	48	The subject of Islamic geometric design has been described in numerous ways: Keith Critchlow’s Islamic Patterns and Syed Jan Abbas and Amer Shaker Salman’s Symmetries of Islamic Geometrical Patterns, both highly esoteric interpretations; Owen Jones’ Grammar of Ornament, Emile Prisse d’Avennes’ L’Art arabe d’apres les monuments du Kaire, and Jules Bourgoin’s Arabic Geometrical Pattern and Design, all descriptions of drawing collections; and even as a theme for countless “coffee table” books resplendent with glossy photographs of exotic patterns and colors. In prac- tical terms, every design begins as a circle and a series of circles – however, these are relegated mostly to the background construction of geometric pat- Book Reviews 127 terns; few circles appear in Islamic geometric design after the eleventh century.	cache/ajiss-963.pdf	txt/ajiss-963.txt