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 This new paperback edition includes a previously unpublished index, designed to make the book more user-friendly.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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... function of the major Islamic building types within the medieval society which produced them . Accordingly each chapter deals with a single type of building . This is a relatively novel procedure in works on Islamic architecture , which ...
... function of the minaret . Cer- tainly these rarer words suggest that the minaret had other functions besides the call to prayer ; but here too caution is required , since still more words are used for ' mausoleum ' and are applied to ...
... function . ETYMOLOGY As usual , the etymology of the words used to describe this kind of building is instructive . These words suggest a wide range of functions , and it is characteristic of Islamic architecture that a simple building ...
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Problems and Approaches | 1 |
The Mosque | 31 |
The Minaret | 129 |
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