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
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... SURVIVING PRE- ILKHANID MADRASAS IN THE IRANIAN WORLD With such a plethora of literary evidence avail- able , it is ironic that Iran should retain so little in the way of pre - Mongol madrasas and that perhaps the two earliest buildings ...
... surviving or recorded in this period is probably about two hundred . The preponderance of sur- viving over vanished buildings is highly unusual in the medieval Islamic world and is unlikely to reflect the true state of affairs . But the ...
... surviving iwan , the natural conclu- sion to draw is that Clavijo's detailed description 272-273 , refers to this surviving iwan , especially as his 288-290 account tallies with the decoration it still bears . It is at this stage that ...
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Problems and Approaches | 1 |
The Mosque | 31 |
The Minaret | 129 |
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