Studies in Arab Architecture
Published on 1. November 2021
Book
Hardback
560 pages
978-1-4744-7488-7 (ISBN)
Description
This lavishly illustrated volume - with many images previously unpublished in colour - collects 18 articles by Bernard O'Kane on a wide variety of topics in Arab architecture.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. He concentrates on monuments in Egypt and Syria, analysing topics such as the borrowings between domestic and religious architecture, studies of individual buildings and mutual influences between Iran and Egypt.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
2 black and white illustrations, 267 colour illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 249 mm
Width: 175 mm
Thickness: 36 mm
Weight
1247 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4744-7488-7 (9781474474887)
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Studies in Arab Architecture
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Edinburgh University Press
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Bernard O'Kane
Studies in Arab Architecture
E-Book
08/2021
1st Edition
Edinburgh University Press
€128.99
Available for download
Person
Bernard O'Kane is Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture at the American University in Cairo. He is the author of Timurid Architecture in Khurasan (1987), Studies in Persian Art and Architecture (1996) and Early Persian Painting (2003); and the editor of Treasures of Islamic Art in the Museums of Cairo (2006).
Content
1. Mughal Tilework: Derivative or Original?; 2. Architecture and Court Cultures of the 14th Century; 3. The Mausoleum of Yayha al-Shabih Revisited, with Bahia Shehab; 4. Introduction in The Mosques of Egypt; 5. Residential Architecture of the Darb Zubayda; 6. The Design of Cairo's Masonry Domes; 7. James Wild and the Mosque of Bashtak; 8. The Great Mosque of Hama Redux; 9. Ayyubid Architecture in Cairo; 10. The Nine-Bay Plan in Islamic Architecture: Its Origin, Development and Meaning; 11. The Arboreal Aesthetic: Landscape, Painting and Architecture from Mongol Iran to Mamluk Egypt; 12. Domestic and Religious Architecture in Cairo: Mutual Influences; 13. The Ziyada of the Mosque of al-?akim and the Development of the Ziyada in Islamic Architecture; 14. The Mosque; 15. Monumentality in Mamluk and Mongol Art and Architecture; 16. The Madrasa of Badr al-Din al-'Ayni and Its Tiled Mi?rab, with Laila Ibrahim; 17. The Rise of the Minaret; 18. Review of M. Burgoyne, D.S. Richards, Mamluk Jerusalem: An Architectural Study.