Islamic Architecture: Form, Function and MeaningEdinburgh University Press, 1994 - 645 páginas Winner of the American Publishers Association's Award for an outstanding Professional and Scholarly title and the Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion 1996 from the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain. In a dazzling display of erudition, Robert Hillenbrand surveys the major building-types of the Islamic World: religious architecture (the mosque, the minaret, the madrasa), the mausoleum 'between Heaven and Earth', and the caravansarai and the palace representing the secular side. All the building-types are discussed in art-historical terms, with the interplay of form and function taken as the underlying theme of the analysis. All are comprehensively illustrated with a full range of colour and black-and-white photographs, analytical drawings, thumbnail comparative assemblies and ground plans. This major reference work, covering from Spain to Afghanistan and c. 700 to c. 1700, is a source of fascination for all seeking to appreciate the rich heritage of the Islamic World. Recurrent themes and patterns take on a wider significance - a persistent reminder that the Islamic faith and the particular type of society which it engendered makes light of vast gulfs of time and space. Key Features
Available in Hardback (originally published in 1994) and a revised paperback edition published in 2000. This new paperback edition includes a previously unpublished index, designed to make the book more user-friendly. |
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... Mamluk amirs in architectural projects , and for their desire to make financial provision for their descendants . SYRIAN MADRASAS AFTER 1250 Just as the madrasas of Syria in the 12th and early 13th centuries yield valuable data not ...
... Mamluk madrasas in Syria is advertised by the addition of a minaret ( Saffahiya madrasa built by the gadi Ibn al - Saffah in 868/1464 , and Ansariya madrasa , both in Aleppo ) . Attention so far has been focused on the Mamluk madrasas ...
... Mamluk madrasas . Secondly , its location in a favoured site along the inner façade of the Haram al- Sharif would confer baraka on it to an unusual degree . Earlier in the Mamluk period several madrasas had been erected along the Haram ...
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Problems and Approaches | 1 |
The Mosque | 31 |
The Minaret | 129 |
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