| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 376 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Contents |
Intro -- Contents -- Preface for the Three Volumes -- Illustrations -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- 1 Overview -- 2 Crusades in East and West -- 3 Contacts through Trade Trigger Westernised Modernisation -- 4 Constantinople -- 5 Arrangement of the Book -- Chapter 2 Churches, Mosques and Travellers -- 1 Westerners Travel around the East -- 1.1 Maps and Street Plans -- 2 Ambassadors Study the Empire -- 2.1 Prosperity -- 2.2 Amenability -- 2.3 Survivability -- 3 Viewing Mosque Architecture -- 3.1 Mosques, Churches and Antiquities: The Diet of Greece and Rome |
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4 Drawing Mosque Exteriors and Interiors -- 5 A Conflicting Mix of Ideas and Beliefs -- 6 Forgotten? Westerners and the Eastern Crusades -- 7 Dress and Doctors -- 8 Western Habits and Actions Offend Muslims: Footwear and Spitting -- 9 The End of Islam? The Empire in Decline? -- 9.1 Disparities between West and East -- 9.2 Dilapidated Buildings and Imperial Decline -- 10 The Various Inhabitants of the Empire -- 11 Architecture in the Empire: Wood, Maintenance and Competence -- 11.1 Wooden Houses -- 11.2 Maintenance of Mosques and Other Foundations -- 11.3 The Turks as Builders |
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12 Advice to Western Travellers from Western Authors -- 12.1 The Costs of Travel -- 13 East Is East: The Development of Curiosity Travel -- 13.1 Writing Travel Books -- 13.2 The Illustrated Book -- Chapter 3 Spain -- 1 Christians versus Muslims -- 2 The Alhambra, Granada (Reconquered 1492) -- 3 Charles V and Architecture -- 4 Córdoba: the Great Mosque (Mezquita) -- 4.1 Adverse Criticisms of the Mezquita -- 4.2 Madinat al-Zahra Near Córdoba -- 5 Seville (Recaptured in 1248) -- 6 Girault de Prangey and Arab Architecture -- Chapter 4 Constantinople and Adrianople with a Note on Greece |
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1 The Imperial Firman -- 2 The Ottoman Building Programme -- 3 Collecting Manuscripts in Constantinople -- 4 Adrianople -- 4.1 Üç Şerefeli Mosque -- 4.2 Selimiye Mosque -- 4.3 The Beyazidiye -- 5 Constantinople -- 6 Cityscape: "'Tis Distance Lends Enchantment to the View" -- 6.1 Domes and Minarets -- 6.2 Other Points of View -- 7 Cityscape: Strolling the Streets -- 7.1 An Overview of Mosques -- 7.2 Mosques and Cleanliness -- 8 Seeing Hagia Sophias Everywhere They Look: Royal Mosques -- 8.1 The Beyazide/Bajazet -- 8.2 Hagia Sophia -- 8.3 Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Descriptions |
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8.4 Eighteenth Century Descriptions -- 8.5 Nineteenth Century Descriptions -- 8.6 Nineteenth Century Criticisms -- and Spolia -- 8.7 Slippers and Bad Behaviour -- 8.8 Mosaics -- 8.9 Later Nineteenth Century Opinions -- 9 Domes, Minarets, and Dimensions -- 9.1 Domes and Their History in the West -- 9.2 A Note on Christopher Wren -- 9.3 Domes and Their History in the East -- 9.4 The Dome of Hagia Sophia -- 10 Some Constantinople Mosques Visited by Travellers -- 10.1 Kuchuk H. Sophia -- 10.2 Sultan Achmet (1609-1616) -- 10.3 Süleymaniye (1550-57) -- 10.4 Early Accounts -- 10.5 The Ninteenth Century -- 10.6 Hagia Sophia as the Model for the Süleymaniye |
| Summary |
This book, the first of three, offers an anthology of Western descriptions of Islamic religious buildings of Spain, Turkey, India and Persia, mostly from the seventeenth to early twentieth centuries, taken from books and ambassadorial reports. As travel became easier and cheaper, thanks to viable roads, steamships, hotels and railways, tourist numbers increased, museums accumulated eastern treasures, illustrated journals proliferated, and photography provided accurate data. The second volume covers some of the religious architecture of Syria, Egypt and North Africa, while the third deals with Islamic palaces around the Mediterranean. All three deal with the impact of Western trade, taste and imports on the East, and examine the encroachment of westernised modernism, judged responsible for the degradation of Islamic styles |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 21, 2023) |
| Subject |
Islamic architecture -- Sources
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Travelers' writings.
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travel literature.
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Islamic architecture
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Travel
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Travelers' writings
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| SUBJECT |
Islamic countries -- Description and travel
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| Subject |
Islamic countries
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| Genre/Form |
Sources
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789004524842 |
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9004524843 |
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9789004524859 |
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9004524851 |
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