(Izdošanas datums: 10-Jul-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009345170)
Examines how Delhis Sultanate and Mughal architecture, dating from the twelfth to the seventeenth centuries, became modern monuments and were assimilated and ordered into public consciousness as spaces for tourism, leisure, and intellectual contemp...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 17-Jun-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: American University in Cairo Press, ISBN-13: 9781649031877)
This volume offers an exploration of the Christian-Islamic encounter in a pan-Mediterranean context, through an array of new research papers based on micro-historical case studies of the religious arts, architecture, and material culture. The new Me...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 30-Apr-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN-13: 9781399543538)
This is the first major book about Islamic stucco, and the central theme is the re-examination of the uses of stucco in architecture across the Islamic world in the pre-modern period.The book engages with new methodological approaches, includi...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 27-Jan-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Peter Lang AG, ISBN-13: 9783631909850)
This book highlights an understudied experiment at the intersection of 19th-century European and Islamic architectural histories. It draws attention to a significant body of buildings designed by architects trained in Central Europe for use by Mus...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 21-Nov-2024, Hardback, Izdevniecība: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781805260974)
A revealing history of Islamic architectural influence on Europes cathedrals, palaces and monuments. Who really built Europes finest Romanesque monuments? Abbots and bishops presiding over holy sites receive mentions aplenty throughout hist...Lasīt vairāk
This book addresses the reception of Islamic visual culture by the northern Iberian kingdoms, by systematically comparing works of art from both sides and fleshing out their historical context. The study includes figurative and iconographic motifs,...Lasīt vairāk
When we walk into a gallery, we have a fairly good idea where the building begins and ends; and inside, while observing a painting, we are equally confident in distinguishing between the painting-proper and its frame and borders. Yet, things are o...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 21-May-2024, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Pennsylvania State University Press, ISBN-13: 9780271096766)
Explores the foundation and development of Marrakesh during the Almoravid and Almohad dynasties, drawing upon recent work in archaeology, urban studies, and landscape preservation--...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 09-May-2024, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781911723479)
Against a backdrop of Islamophobia, Europeans are increasingly airbrushing from history their cultural debt to the Muslim world. But this legacy lives on in some of Europes most recognizable buildings, from Notre-Dame Cathedral to the Houses of Parl...Lasīt vairāk
Structured as five microhistories c. 632-705, this book offers a counternarrative for the formation of Islamic architecture and the Islamic state. It adopts a novel periodization informed by moments of historical violence and anxiety around caliphal...Lasīt vairāk
The Place of the Mosque probes a host of discursive formationsspaces of public assembly and social interaction, quotidian practices, disputed sites, and biopoliticswhile critiquing their peculiar anomalies. It goes beyond architectural criticism...Lasīt vairāk
Before the Mughal style came to dominate the Islamic architecture of the Indian sub-continent, Bengal and its rulers had developed their own forms. The mosque architecture of the Independent Sultanate period (from the 14th to the 16th centuries) repr...Lasīt vairāk
This volume, the second of three, offers an anthology of Western descriptions of Islamic religious buildings in Syria, Egypt and North Africa, mostly from the seventeenth to early twentieth centuries, taken from travel books and ambassadorial reports...Lasīt vairāk
Providing an introduction to the artistic and architectural traditions of the Islamic world, A Story of Islamic Art explores fifty case studies, taken from different regions of the Islamic world and from the seventh to the twenty-first ce...Lasīt vairāk
An introduction to the artistic and architectural traditions of the Islamic world Providing an introduction to the artistic and architectural traditions of the Islamic world, A Story of Islamic Art...Lasīt vairāk
This book provides a detailed overview of the origin and development of Islamic religious architecture while contextualizing it within the history of Islam in Kashmir between early fourteenth and mid-eighteenth century in a framework of syncretism....Lasīt vairāk
A richly illustrated historyand sourcebook spanning theworld of Islamic architecture. Islamic architecture is a broad topic, covering some 1,400 years up to the present day. The richness of building types, regional styles, and architectural d...Lasīt vairāk
Sacred Precincts examines non-Muslim religious sites in the Islamic world, revealing how architecture responds to contextual issues and traditions. It explores urban contexts; issues of identity; design; construction; transformation and the history o...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : The Biennial Hamad bin Khalifa Symposium on Islamic Art
(Izdošanas datums: 13-Jun-2023, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Yale University Press, ISBN-13: 9780300267495)
A timely examination, through the dual lenses of culture and climate change, of the profound ecological awareness that has characterized Islamic visual traditions The Islamic world finds itself increasingly at the epicenter of our escalating...Lasīt vairāk
Keppel Archibald Cameron Creswell (1879-1974) developed an early interest in Islamic architecture, which became his main area of research at the time of his military posting in Egypt, in 1916. His publications are still fundamental research tools for...Lasīt vairāk
An alternative view of Islamic cities that challenges the Western conception of them as labyrinthine Introducing a new concept of urban space, Cities and Metaphors encourages a theoretical realignment of how the city is exper...Lasīt vairāk
This book discusses architectural excellence in Islamic societies drawing on textual and visual materials, from the Aga Khan Documentation Centre at MIT, developed over more than three decades. At the core of the discussion are the efforts, proces...Lasīt vairāk
The first major English-language publication of the Tekkieh Moaven and his fascinating Persian tilesA wonderful narrative insight of the ancient guardian SojdehpurColorful illustrations presenting tiles with floral, calligra...Lasīt vairāk
This book explores the construction processes and the mechanisms of transmission of knowledge between the eastern and western Mediterranean lands from the late Roman period to the early centuries of Islam....Lasīt vairāk
A comprehensive introduction for scholars and practitioners to the state of Islamic architecture as a field of inquiry and a snapshot of the issues and challenges facing the field today. This book brings together established experts,...Lasīt vairāk
