Studies in Arab Architecture
1st Edition
Published on 20. August 2021
560 pages
978-1-4744-7490-0 (ISBN)
Description
Curates a selection of key articles by Bernard O'Kane that combine analyses of monuments in the Arab world with overviews of the central elements of Iranian architecture
- Covers the key elements of architecture in countries from Morocco to India
- Includes subjects ranging from decoration to plan types
- Situates the monuments within their social and political contexts
- Includes over 200 photographs, many published in colour for the first time
This lavishly illustrated volume - with many images previously unpublished in colour - collects 18 articles by Bernard O'Kane on a wide variety of topics in Arab architecture.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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Content
- Intro
- STUDIES IN ARAB ARCHITECTURE
- Copyright
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- 1. Mughal Tilework: Derivative or Original?
- 2. Architecture and Court Cultures of the Fourteenth Century
- 3. The Mausoleum of Yayha al-Shabih Revisited (with Bahia Shehab)
- 4. The Mosques of Egypt: An Introduction
- 5. Residential Architecture of the Darb Zubayda
- 6. The Design of Cairo's Masonry Domes
- 7. James Wild and the Mosque of Bashtak, Cairo
- 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-Hakim 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-Dın al-Aynı and its Tiled Mihrab (with Laila Ibrahim)
- 17. The Rise of the Minaret
- 18. Review of Michael Hamilton Burgoyne and Donald Richards, Mamluk Jerusalem: An Architectural Study
- 19. Widening the Horizons for the Study of Islamic Architecture
- Index
