| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 552 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), plans (black and white, and colour) |
| Series |
Collected papers in Islamic art |
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Collected papers in Islamic art.
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| Contents |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Preface -- CHAPTER ONE. Mughal Tilework: Derivative or Original? -- CHAPTER TWO. Architecture and Court Cultures of the Fourteenth Century -- CHAPTER THREE. The Mausoleum of Yayha al-Shabih Revisited (with Bahia Shehab) -- CHAPTER FOUR. The Mosques of Egypt: An Introduction -- CHAPTER FIVE. Residential Architecture of the Darb Zubayda -- CHAPTER SIX. The Design of Cairo's Masonry Domes -- CHAPTER SEVEN. James Wild and the Mosque of Bashtak, Cairo -- CHAPTER EIGHT. The Great Mosque of Hama Redux -- CHAPTER NINE. Ayyubid Architecture in Cairo -- CHAPTER 10. The Nine-bay Plan in Islamic Architecture: Its Origin, Development and Meaning -- CHAPTER ELEVEN. The Arboreal Aesthetic: Landscape, Painting and Architecture from Mongol Iran to Mamluk Egypt -- CHAPTER TWELVE. Domestic and Religious Architecture in Cairo: Mutual Influences -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN. The Ziyāda of the Mosque of al-Ḥākim and the Development of the Ziyāda in Islamic Architecture -- CHAPTER FOURTEEN. The Mosque -- CHAPTER FIFTEEN. Monumentality in Mamluk and Mongol Art and Architecture -- CHAPTER SIXTEEN. The Madrasa of Badr al-Dīn al-ʿAynī and its Tiled Miḥrāb (with Laila Ibrahim) -- CHAPTER SEVENTEEN. The Rise of the Minaret -- CHAPTER EIGHTEEN. Review of Michael Hamilton Burgoyne and Donald Richards, Mamluk Jerusalem: An Architectural Study -- CHAPTER NINETEEN. Widening the Horizons for the Study of Islamic Architecture -- Index |
| Summary |
This lavishly illustrated volume - with many images previously unpublished in colour - collects 18 articles by Bernard O'Kane on a wide variety of topics in Arab architecture. The essays range from from Morocco to India, and from the earliest periods of Islam to the present day |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 01, 2022) |
| Subject |
Islamic architecture.
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ARCHITECTURE -- History -- Medieval.
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Islamic architecture
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781474474900 |
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147447490X |
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9781474474917 |
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1474474918 |
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