Al-Maktoum Institute Academic Press, 2004. — 732 p. — (Monograph on Islamic Jerusalem studies 4). This monograph aims to introduce a definition of al-Aqsa Mosque and to understand its architectural development and evolution in the early Muslim Period within the Cultural Context of the Site. The book is an innovative and creative work on al-Aqsa which reveals a new dimension on...
BAR Publishing, 2016. — 213 p. — (BAR International Series 2790). This book examines the development of the mosque from the hijra (A.H.1/A.D.622) to the fall of the Umayyad dynasty (A.H.133/A.D.750). The aims of the book are two-fold. Firstly, to consider how those mosques for which we only have literary evidence may be approached for study; and secondly, to trace the...
Edinburgh University Press, 2018. — 344 p. — (Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Art). This beautifully illustrated history of Safavid Isfahan (1501–1722) explores the architectural and urban forms and networks of socio-cultural action that reflected a distinctly early-modern and Perso-Shi‘i practice of kingship. An immense building campaign, initiated in 1590-91, transformed Isfahan...
Brill, 2007. — 317 p. — (Muqarnas 24). In Muqarnas articles are being published on all aspects of Islamic visual culture, historical and contemporary, as well as articles dealing with unpublished textual primary sources. Si̇bel Bozdoğan and Gülru Neci̇poğlu, Entangled Discourses: Scrutinizing Orientalist and Nationalist Legacies in the Architectural Historiography of the “Lands...
Taschen, 2002. — 226 p. La spécificité historique de l’Espagne par rapport au reste de l’Europe tient essentiellement à ses relations intenses avec l’Orient. Sous le commandement du Berbère Tarif ibn Malik, un petit détachement débarque à l’été 710 à l’ouest de Gibraltar. Les troupes islamiques qui le suivent quelques mois plus tard réussissent, en quelques années à peine, à...
Taschen, 2007. — 246 p. Hispano-Islamic (or Moorish-Andalusian) art and architecture combine elements of various traditions into a new, autonomous style. Among the outstanding architectural witnesses to this achievement are the Great Mosque in Cordova and the Alhambra in Granada, recognized and admired as part of the world's heritage right up to the present day. They are...
3rd printing. — The American University in Cairo Press, 1998. — 175 p. — ISBN10: 9774242033 / ISBN13: 978-9774242038. Known as the "Mother of the World", Cairo has one of the highest concentrations of Islamic architectural treasures in the world. This introduction to the subject begins with an analysis of the Cairo's urban growth from the Islamic conquest in 641 through to the...
Routledge, 2007. — 231 p. This volume is an inter-disciplinary endeavour which brings together recent research on aspects of urban life and structure by architectural and textual historians and archaeologists, engendering exciting new perspectives on urban life in the pre-modern Islamic world. Its objective is to move beyond the long-standing debate on whether an 'Islamic city'...
Routledge, 2014. — 273 p. — (Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Studies 17). This book is a study of Islamic architecture in Anatolia following the Mongol conquest in 1243. Complex shifts in rule, movements of population, and cultural transformations took place that affected architecture on multiple levels. Beginning with the Mongol conquest of Anatolia, and ending with the...
Yale University Press, 2020. — 323 p. An authoritative survey situating some of the Western world’s most renowned buildings within a millennium of Islamic history Some of the most outstanding examples of world architecture, such as the Mosque of Córdoba, the ceiling of the Cappella Palatina in Palermo, the Giralda tower in Seville, and the Alhambra Palace in Granada, belong to...
Brill, 2008. — xiv, 196 p. — (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 2. South Asia 2). — ISBN13 9789004163393. The British scholar John Burton-Page contributed numerous formative articles on Indian Islamic architecture for the Encyclopaedia of Islam over a period of 25 years. Assembled here for the first time, these offer an insightful overview of the subject, ranging from the...
Routledge, 1994. — 336 p. — (Variorum Collected Studies). Based on extensive architectural and archaeological research, these papers present a series of studies on the art, buildings, settlement patterns, and land use in Iraq, Yemen and Oman, from the pre-Islamic period to modern times. Many of the monuments and sites were studied here for the first time, and have subsequently...
BAR Publishing, 2001. — 312 p. — (BAR International Series 938). This volume is concerned with the religious architecture of the Sultanate of Oman, a missing chapter in the art history of the Islamic world. It originates from a series of lectures delivered in 1988. The book may be seen by the specialist as the first available documentation of buildings that are fully entitled...
BAR Publishing, 2010. — 301 p. — (BAR International Series 2130). The term khan can refer to urban and rural hostelries, relay stations of the Mamluk royal mail, fortresses, farmhouses, warehouses, and others. This multiplicity of meanings naturally complicates a study that aims at analysing only one of these functionsin this case the rural hostelries. The first comprehensive...
Aga Khan Award for Architecture, 1986. — 232 p. Proceedings of Seminar Ten in the series Architectural Transformations in the Islamic World. Held in Granada, Spain, April 21-25, 1986.
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 359 p. Palaces like the Aljafer a and the Alhambra rank among the highest achievements of the Islamic world. In recent years archaeological work at C rdoba, Kairouan and many other sites has vastly increased our knowledge about the origin and development of Islamic palatial architecture, particularly in the Western Mediterranean region. This...
Holle, 1976. — 113 S. — (Holle Kunstbibliothek). Die Begegnung der alten buddhistischen, jinisti- schen und hinduistischen Kulturen mit der neuen Religion des Islam wird besonders deutlich an Bauten in den heutigen Staaten Indien, Pakistan und Bangla Desh. Seit frühester Zeit bildeten die Inder kosmologische Symbole z. B. im buddhistischen Reliquienhügel, an den Decken...
De Boccard, 1931. — 190 p. L'objet principal de cette publication est de fournir aux historiens de r art islamique des documents aussi complets que possible sur les monuments turcs de l'Anatolie. Tous ces documents, relevés et photographies, sont inédits et, sauf de rares exceptions que je signalerai, les monuments auxquels ils se rapportent n'ont jamais été publiés. Voici dans...
Intellect Ltd, 2022. — 504 p. — (Critical Studies in Architecture of the Middle East). Through Islamic Architecture Today and Tomorrow, established experts, designers, and newer scholars from the world of ‘Islamic architecture’, broadly conceived, consider the field’s changing nature and continued relevance in our rapidly globalizing context. Reflective essays address the...
Intellect Ltd, 2022. — 488 p. — (Critical Studies in Architecture of the Middle East). Through Islamic Architecture Today and Tomorrow, established experts, designers, and newer scholars from the world of ‘Islamic architecture’, broadly conceived, consider the field’s changing nature and continued relevance in our rapidly globalizing context. Reflective essays address the...
Princeton University Press, 1988. — 538 p. An upsurge of interest in Islamic art and architecture creates the ideal climate for publication of this long-awaited comprehensive picture of the entire range of building activity sponsored by the Timurids during the fifteenth century, including the monumental, color-clad mosques, shrines, and mausoleums. The term "Timurid" here...
Princeton University Press, 1988. — 312 p. An upsurge of interest in Islamic art and architecture creates the ideal climate for publication of this long-awaited comprehensive picture of the entire range of building activity sponsored by the Timurids during the fifteenth century, including the monumental, color-clad mosques, shrines, and mausoleums. The term "Timurid" here...
San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1990. — 151 p. — ISBN: 0-87701-692-5. There are three good reasons for visiting Islamic Spain. The great monuments, such as the Alhambra at Granada or the mosque at Cordoba, are world-famous but there are other fine buildings which are less familiar. There are gaunt but romantic fortresses and towers. There is also the all- pervading memory of...
Solipsist Press, 1992. — 216 p. Oleg Grabar explores the level of uniqueness of the Alhambra by comparing it to similar like palaces in the past and the few written documents related to it. It is actually one of the first written critical analysis of it towards a wider field of Islamic art & architecture. I appreciate the caveat as to suggest that any new hypothesis, although...
Harvard University Press, 2006. — 246 p. The Dome of the Rock, the beautiful Muslim shrine in the walled Old City of Jerusalem, was fully restored to its original state in the last half-century. Thus, this structure, sited on the third holiest spot on earth for Muslims, is at once a product of the seventh century and almost entirely the work of our own times--a paradox in...
New York University Press, 1990. — 155 p. The subject of this book and of the lectures that led to it is simple enough: the celebrated Masjid-e Jomeh, or Friday Mosque, in Isfahan. It is difficult now to recapture my fascination as a graduate student and as a beginning teacher with some of its parts, like the court itself or the north dome; it was a fascination born of reading...
Brill, 2024. — 429 p. This volume, the second of three, offers an anthology of Western descriptions of Islamic religious buildings in Syria, Egypt and North Africa, mostly from the seventeenth to early twentieth centuries, taken from travel books and ambassadorial reports. (The third volume will deal with Islamic palaces around the Mediterranean.) As travel became easier and...
Routledge, 2021. — 241 p. This book traces the historical identity of Kashmir within the context of Islamic religious architecture between early fourteenth and mid-eighteenth century. It presents a framework of syncretism within which the understanding of this architectural tradition acquires new dimensions and possibilities in the region. In a first, the volume provides a...
I.B.Tauris, 2007. — 252 p. Before the Mughal style came to dominate the Islamic architecture of the Indian sub-continent, Bengal and its rulers had developed their own forms. The mosque architecture of the Independent Sultanate period (from the 14th to the 16th centuries) represents the most important element of the Islamic architecture of Bengal. This distinctive regional...
BAR Publishing, 2007. — 238 p. — (BAR International Series 1628). The conquest of Jerusalem by Saladin in 583/1187, after nearly nine decades of Frankish rule, opened a new era of cultural, socio-economic and architectural changes. The renewed political fervour that followed it gave a fresh impetus to an extensive building activity initiated by the Ayyubids, which signified a...
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture, 1983. — 250 p. Salam-Liebich attempts to thoroughly study Mamluk Tripoli's building program through a systematic analysis of what remains in Tripoli considered in relation to the architectural and decorative elements of medieval monument found elsewhere. Primary and secondary historical materials dealing with...
Rizzoli, 1990. — 71 p. This book represents over twelve years of Klaus Herdeg's work on the architecture of Iran and Turkistan. The principle purpose is to illustrate and explicate selected buildings, spaces, and city fabrics, rather than to give a traditional historical account of them. While the analysis of form and its associated meanings is primarily visual, the...
Edinburgh University Press, 2000. — 691 p. 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...
Edinburgh University Press, 2000. — 691 p. 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...
Edinburgh University Press, 2000. — 691 p. 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...
Electa, 1978. — 197 p. L'architettura islamica dal VII secolo ad oggi in Spagna, Medio Oriente, Anatolia, nord Africa, Asia centrale e India, illustrata con precisione scientifica nelle diverse interpretazioni locali. Dal pensiero di Maometto per il quale “la cosa più vana, che divora la ricchezza di un credente, è costruire”, alla moschea congregazionale, la forma più...
Electa, 1978. — 197 p. L'architettura islamica dal VII secolo ad oggi in Spagna, Medio Oriente, Anatolia, nord Africa, Asia centrale e India, illustrata con precisione scientifica nelle diverse interpretazioni locali. Dal pensiero di Maometto per il quale “la cosa più vana, che divora la ricchezza di un credente, è costruire”, alla moschea congregazionale, la forma più...
Harry N. Abrams, 1977. — 422 p. This book provides a history of Islamic architecture from the 7th century through the 17th century, in the Middle East, Africa, Spain, and India, including photographs and plans of the most significant and well known mosques, palaces, madrases, and other Islamic buildings in the world.
George Braziller — 1st Edition, 1963 — 128 pp. — ISBN10: 0807602124 / ISBN13: 978-0807602126 Islamic mosques and palaces — from Spain to Egypt — are among the glories of world architecture and are universally studied and admired. This profusely illustrated introduction vividly describes that style, symbolized by the domes of mosques, mosaic-lined arcades, and filigreed...
Dover Publications, 2005. — 128 p. Among the glories of world architecture, Islamic mosques and palaces — from Spain to Egypt and other parts of the Middle East — are universally studied and admired. This profusely illustrated introduction to that subject gives a lively account of the style of structures symbolized by domed mosques, mosaic-lined arcades, and filigreed...
London : Profile Books, 2004. — 215 p. "The Alhambra is the only Muslim palace to have survived from the Middle Ages. Built by a bloody and threatened dynasty of Muslim Spain, it was preserved as a monument to the triumph of Christianity. Every day tourists in their thousands are entranced by its superb site, its towers and courts, its fountained gardens, its honeycombed...
Oxford University Press, 2003. — 278 p. Arranged according to region, this volume introduces the student and general reader to the architectural splendors of the Islamic world. The book contains nearly 70 architectural drawings, close to 200 half-tone plates, and separate maps of eastern and western Islam. In addition, there is a glossary of the architectural terms relevant to...
Brill, 2008. — Vol. 1: xx, 676 p.; Vol. 2: vi, 818 p. — (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East 94). — ISBN13 9789004162402. The purpose of this book, is to draw attention to the sites of life, politics and culture where current and past generations of the Islamic world have made their mark. Unlike many previous volumes dealing with the city in the...
I.B.Tauris, 2017. — 265 p. The architecture of the Islamic world is predominantly considered in terms of a dual division between 'tradition' and 'modernity' - a division which, Saeid Khaghani here argues, has shaped and limited the narrative applied to this architecture. Khaghani introduces and reconsiders the mosques of eighth- to fifteenth-century Iran in terms of...
I.B.Tauris, 2017. — 265 p. The architecture of the Islamic world is predominantly considered in terms of a dual division between 'tradition' and 'modernity' - a division which, Saeid Khaghani here argues, has shaped and limited the narrative applied to this architecture. Khaghani introduces and reconsiders the mosques of eighth- to fifteenth-century Iran in terms of...
I.B.Tauris, 2017. — 265 p. The architecture of the Islamic world is predominantly considered in terms of a dual division between 'tradition' and 'modernity' - a division which, Saeid Khaghani here argues, has shaped and limited the narrative applied to this architecture. Khaghani introduces and reconsiders the mosques of eighth- to fifteenth-century Iran in terms of...
I.B.Tauris, 2017. — 265 p. The architecture of the Islamic world is predominantly considered in terms of a dual division between 'tradition' and 'modernity' - a division which, Saeid Khaghani here argues, has shaped and limited the narrative applied to this architecture. Khaghani introduces and reconsiders the mosques of eighth- to fifteenth-century Iran in terms of...
I.B.Tauris, 2017. — 265 p. The architecture of the Islamic world is predominantly considered in terms of a dual division between 'tradition' and 'modernity' - a division which, Saeid Khaghani here argues, has shaped and limited the narrative applied to this architecture. Khaghani introduces and reconsiders the mosques of eighth- to fifteenth-century Iran in terms of...
BAR Publishing, 2020. — 357 p. — (BAR International Series 3004). This book is the first systematic collection and discussion of dwellings in the Umayyad ‘cities’ (madāʾin) and ‘palaces’ (quṣūr) of Bilād al-Shām. Giuseppe Labisi offers an overview of the apartments within and identifies the architectural models that inspired Umayyad dwellings. This study also allows the precise...
London: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company. 1976. — 48 p.
In this book we shall see that as people from many countries with differing climates and types of building materials became followers - Muslims - each area produced the variations of buildings, mosques, schools, hospitals and houses best suited to its needs. Some were simple, others magnificent ; some were flat-roofed and...
British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara, 1958. — 120 p. — (British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara Occasional Publications 4). In the summer of 1953 a small expedition from the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara, which included the Director, Mr. Seton Lloyd and Dr. D. Storm Rice, spent two months at the modern harbourtown of Alanya, on the south coast of Turkey,...
British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara, 1958. — 108 p. — (British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara Occasional Publications 4). In the summer of 1953 a small expedition from the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara, which included the Director, Mr. Seton Lloyd and Dr. D. Storm Rice, spent two months at the modern harbourtown of Alanya, on the south coast of Turkey,...
Edinburgh University Press, 2020. — 344 p. — (Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Art). This is a comprehensive study of the surviving monuments of the Qarakhanids - an important yet little-known medieval dynasty that ruled much of Central Asia between the late 10th and early 13th centuries. Based on extensive fieldwork and many hard-to-find Russian sources, the book places the...
Edinburgh University Press, 2017. — 272 p. — (Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Art). This lavishly illustrated volume presents the major surviving monuments of the early period of the Rum Seljuqs, the first major Muslim dynasty to rule Anatolia. A much-needed overview of the political history of the dynasty provides the context for the study of the built environment which follows....
Aris & Phillips Ltd, 1981. — 161 p. While much of the architecture of the Islamic world has been extensively catalogued and studied, the often magnificent buildings of the Deccan have been largely ignored. The author of this exploration aims to fill this gap in a thorough and detailed manner, as she describes, catalogues and analyses buildings over the whole area.
Pierre Terrail, 2001. — 207 p. Fès, Marrakech, Meknès et Rabat sont l'oeuvre des six grandes dynasties qui ont régné sur le Maroc. Depuis le VIIIè siècle, situées au coeur d'un empire s'étendant à son apogée sur l'andalousie et toute l'afrique du nord, ces cités ont servi la puissance et le prestige de leurs souverains bâtisseurs soumises aux tribulations d'une histoire...
Thames and Hudson, 1995. — 290 p. From mosques to markets, from citadels to cemetries, this text is a survey of the entire field of Islamic architecture. Although Islamic buildings may make an immediate visual impact, it can be useful to know something of the society which they serve. This text relates the architecture to the social areas of religion, power structure, commerce...
Brill, 2024. — 182 p. — (Arts and Archaeology of the Islamic World 20). Structured as five microhistories c. 632-705, this book offers a counternarrative for the formation of Islamic architecture and the Islamic state. It adopts a novel periodization informed by moments of historical violence and anxiety around caliphal identities in flux, animating histories of the minbar,...
Edinburgh University Press, 2014. — 320 p. — (Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Art). The first illustrated, architectural history of the ‘Alid shrines, increasingly endangered by the conflict in Syria. The ‘Alids (descendants of the Prophet Muhammad) are among the most revered figures in Islam, beloved by virtually all Muslims, regardless of sectarian affiliation. This study argues...
Edinburgh University Press, 2021. — 568 p. — (Collected Papers in Islamic Art). 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...
Edinburgh University Press, 2021. — 674 p. — (Collected Papers in Islamic Art). This lavishly illustrated volume – with many images previously unpublished in colour – collects 25 articles by Bernard O’Kane on a wide variety of topics pertaining to Persian architecture in its widest sense. His analyses range from historiography and tilework to the development of the domes of...
Institut français d'archéologie orientale, 1933. — 64 p. — (Mémoires publiés par les membres de l'Institut français d'archéologie orientale du Caire 64). Il était dans nos intentions, alors que nous g-roupions les matériaux de notre ouvrage sur les palais et maisons du Caire, de consacrer aux hammams un très court chapitre. L'étude de cet élément indispensable des habitations...
Institut français d'archéologie orientale, 1933. — 143 p. — (Mémoires publiés par les membres de l'Institut français d'archéologie orientale du Caire 62). Confrontés avec les faits historiques, les témoignages aujourd'hui rares de l'architecture civile, et les textes, nous ont permis de donner un tableau d'ensemble de l'habitation musulmane, au Caire. Textes et vestiges se...
Archaeopress Publishing, 2021. — 341 p. Ramla presents a comprehensive overview of the history, archaeology and architecture of the city of Ramla from the time of its foundation as the capital of Umayyad Palestine around 715 until the end of Ottoman rule in 1917. It begins with a historical outline covering in turn the early Islamic (Robert Hoyland), Crusader (Peter Edbury),...
Brill, 2018. — 294 p. — (Arts and Archaeology of the Islamic World 10). This edited volume follows the panel “Earth in Islamic Architecture” organised for the World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES) in Ankara, on the 19th of August 2014. Earthen architecture is well-known among archaeologists and anthropologists whose work extends from Central Asia to Spain,...
Brill, 2022. — 369 p. — (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1: The Near and Middle East 163). This book is the first comprehensive synthesis on mosques in sub-Saharan Africa, bringing together sites from more than twenty states from sub-Saharan Africa; and more than 285 monuments, from the IXth to the XIXth centuries. This monograph is divided into three large geographical...
I.B.Tauris, 2010. — 263 p. — (Library of Middle East History). The most enduring testament to the Mamluk Sultanate is its architecture. Not only do Mamluk buildings embody one of the most outstanding medieval architectural traditions, Mamluk architecture is actually a key to the social history of the period. Analysing Mamluk constructions as a form of communication and...
CNRS Éditions, 2021. — 317 p. Au centre d'un cirque de montagnes, Ispahan surgit de l'aride plateau iranien. Une oasis d'où émergent des dômes étincelants, les hautes tourelles des minarets et la rumeur d'une cité caravanière. Depuis le xviie siècle, tous les voyageurs gardent un souvenir inoubliable de cette cité merveilleuse, alliant les atours d'une capitale d'Empire et les...
Brill, 2006. — 1160 S. — (Islamic History and Civilization 62). The book studies late 18th to mid-19th century Iranian architecture in mosques and madrasas, entering a widely unknown architectural period. The introduction places the buildings as religious and political architecture in the context of the early Qājār monarchy and the rising urban elites. The main part analyses...
Oxford University Press, 1918. — 406 p. This book does not pretend to be a History of Moslem Architecture — the style which is sometimes described as Arabic, but wrongly, for the Arabs, like the Goths, the Langobardi, the Normans, and the other Barbarian Invaders, brought no architecture of their own with them into the countries which they conquered. What they carried was the...
I.B.Tauris, 2011. — 307 p. — (British Institute of Persian Studies). The Safavid period represents an immensely rich chapter in the history of Iranian architecture. In this discussion of Safavid architecture in the context of its political, social and religious milieu, Kishwar Rizvi gives special consideration to the shrine of Shaykh Safi, built in AD 1334, as an important...
Helikon Kiadó, 1987. — 171 o. — (A múlt születése). Az Ezeregyéjszaka meséinek színterét elénk varázsló építészeti emlékek mecsetek, kegyhelyek, paloták, minaretek, sivatagi várkastélyok, citadellák, fürdk- leírása szolgál keretül a szerz számára, hogy megismertessen bennünket az iszlám kialakulásával, villámgyors terjedésének titkával, a hatalom gyakorlását elsegít politikai...
Klaus Schwarz, 1991. — 740 S. — (Islamkundliche Untersuchungen 144). Die Stadt Gaza Die Moscheen Die Madrasa Die Zāwiya Der Regierungspalast Die Qaisārīya Die nicht mehr erhaltene mamlukische Architektur Stil der mamlukischen Architektur der Stadt Gaza (Stilanalyse, lokale Bautraditionen, Vergleichsstudie, äußere Einflüsse, Entwicklung der architektonischen und ornamentalen...
Lienart, 2018. — 304 p. Des rives du Sénégal à la péninsule Ibérique, des côtes atlantiques aux portes de la Libye, ce fut un temps de conquérants portés par des idées religieuses. Ce fut aussi une époque d'intense création artistique. Entre 1055 et 1269, souverains almoravides et almohades offrirent à leur royaume l'une des plus belles parures monumentales de l'histoire de...
Taschen, 2009. — 237 p. — (Arquitectura Mundial). Para el ojo occidental, ciudades como Jerusalén, La Meca, Bagdad o El Cairo pueden parecer totalmente extrañas. No es sólo el estilo de vida lo que resulta poco familiar, sino también la arquitectura pasmosamente variada. Este volumen inspecciona más de seis siglos de arquitectura islámica, desde fines del siglo VII hasta...
The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997. — 334 p. In the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, the Ayyubid dynasty brought unprecedented architectural development to Aleppo, the most important city in medieval Syria. While early Islamic empires usually expressed their grandeur by founding new cities with vast extra-urban palaces, the Ayyubids asserted their power by...
Edinburgh University Press, 2021. — 556 p. — (Collected Papers in Islamic Art Series). This volume collects Yasser Tabbaa's investigative and interpretive articles on medieval Islamic architecture, ornament and gardens in Syria and Iraq, with comparative expansions into Anatolia, Egypt, North Africa and Spain. He examines the monuments, many of which have vanished in recent...
Ministry of Waqfs, 1949. — 318 p. Series of Views in Colour and Monochrome of the Principal Mosques of Egypt with a Brief Note on Each Monument describing its History and Architectural Features Accompanied by Detailled Plans and Maps.
Ministry of Waqfs, 1949. — 376 p. Series of Views in Colour and Monochrome of the Principal Mosques of Egypt with a Brief Note on Each Monument describing its History and Architectural Features Accompanied by Detailled Plans and Maps.
Ankara: Başkanlık Vakıflar Genel Müdürlüğü, 2008. — 192 s. Önsöz Her çağda olduğu gibi Anadolu Selçuklu ve Moğol döneminde de Sivas, tüm yönüyle önemini korudu. Tebriz'de bulunan Moğol hanları adına İlhanlı beyleri, çoğunlukla Sivas'ta veya duruma güre Kayseri de oturuyorlar, ülkeyi onlar atlına yönetiyorken sömürüyorlardı. O koşullarda bile Sivas'ta üç medrese yapıldı (1271)....
Citadelles & Mazenod, 2018. — 303 p. Symbole cardinal de l’Islam, la mosquée se décline, dans son ensemble comme dans son détail, en une myriade de formes – depuis la simplicité intemporelle de la maison du Prophète à Médine (VIIe siècle), jusqu'à la modernité radicale de la mosquée Sancaklar en Turquie (2013). Les missions qu’elle remplit s’avèrent tout aussi variées : lieu de...
Rizzoli, 2017. — 295 p. One of the most important and authoritative books to celebrate mosque architecture and Islamic design, featuring many exquisite newly commissioned photographs. This visually striking volume illustrates over sixty of the most venerated mosques from historic monuments such as the Great Mosque of Córdoba and Istanbul’s Süleymaniye Mosque to today’s most...
Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, 1982. — 170 S. Die vorliegende Arbeit hat zum Ziel, die Tragwände der frühislamischen Moscheen zu untersuchen. Die Bethallen dieser Moscheen sind fast immer Stützenhallen (Pfeiler- oder Säulenhallen) mit Bogenstellungen. Hallen mit geradem Gebälk bilden nur die Ausnahme. Außenwände und die flache Holzdecke haben hier angesichts der Präsenz...
German Jordanian University, 2020. — 648 p. Several thousand archaeological and historical sites have been registered on the territory of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan during recent decades. Given this abundance of cultural Heritage, it is surprising that there are still larger groups of monuments that have not yet been perceived neither by experts nor the general public. The...
I. B. Tauris, 2006. — 366 p. Magnificent castles and fortresses in remote, mountainous regions were built for refuge and defensive purposes by the Ismaili Muslims of Iran and Syria fleeing from persecution during the early middle ages. Often superior in construction to those built by the Crusaders, these castles withstood numerous offensives for over two centuries until the...
Presses de l'Université Paris-Sorbonne, 2011. — 338 p. Erigées entre les années 1170 et 1250, les forteresses ayyoubides figurent parmi les plus impressionnantes réalisations de l'architecture militaire proche-orientale. Pourtant elles sont depuis longtemps tenues dans l'ombre des châteaux construits par les croisés, sur lesquels ont porté de nombreux travaux depuis la fin du...
Presses de l'Université Paris-Sorbonne, 2011. — 338 p. Erigées entre les années 1170 et 1250, les forteresses ayyoubides figurent parmi les plus impressionnantes réalisations de l'architecture militaire proche-orientale. Pourtant elles sont depuis longtemps tenues dans l'ombre des châteaux construits par les croisés, sur lesquels ont porté de nombreux travaux depuis la fin du...
New York: University of California Press, 1992 — 260 p. — ISBN10: 0520074947; ISBN13: 978-052007494. Gathering architectural pieces from all over the world, the Paris Universal Exposition of 1867 introduced to fairgoers the notion of an imaginary journey, a new tourism en place. Through this and similar expositions, the world's cultures were imported to European and American...
Самарканд: МИЦАИ, 2022. — 362 с. — ISBN 978-9943-357-63-1. В книге в интересной и доступной форме повествуется об эволюции и закономерностях развития зодчества Бухарского оазиса и г. Бухары периода расцвета в XV–XVII вв., раскрываются его художественные, типологические, конструктивные и локальные особенности, а также взаимовлияния с зодчеством других регионов Центральной Азии и...
Монография. — Ташкент: San'at, 2009. — 144 с. + 80 с.: илл. Монография со ссылками на обширнейший список литературы. Пять веков (1360-1857 гг.) Темуридов раскрыты как выход Средней Азии от средневековья к Ренессансу и Реформации.
Симферополь, СГТ, 2008. — 320 с. — ISBN: 966-291-383-1 Книга представляет собой монографию, в которой авторы , на фоне глубокого описания исторического процесса в Крыму, знакомят читателей с целым рядом архитектурных , культурных , религиозных , этнических памятников мусульманской культуры народов Крымского полуострова , являющимися шедеврами культуры и историческими святынями...
Симферополь: СГТ, 2008. — 320 с. — ISBN: 978-966-2913-83-5
Книга представляет собой монографию, в которой авторы, на фоне глубокого описания исторического процесса в Крыму, знакомят читателей с целым рядом архитектурных, культурных, религиозных, этнических памятников мусульманской культуры народов Крымского полуострова, являющимися шедеврами культуры и историческими святынями...
Симферополь, 1863. — 76 с.
Крымъ ежегодно привлекаетъ множество посѣтителей — путешественниковъ, какъ русскихъ, такъ и иностранцевъ, особенно въ лѣтнее время. Главные пункты, куда обыкновенно спѣшатъ всѣ пріѣзжіе — это Южный берегъ Крыма, Севастополь, и Бахчисарай или, правильнѣе—Багчесерай. Южный берегъ привлекаетъ всякаго полюбоваться дивными красотами природы и самой...
М.: Прогресс-Традиция, 2018. — 480 c. — ISBN: 978-5-89826-465-9 В книге рассматривается история мусульманской архитектуры на территории современной Турции от прихода в Анатолию тюрков в XI в. до установления гегемонии Османов в середине XV в. В центре внимания оказывается мечеть, ее композиционно-планировочные принципы и региональные варианты, процесс формирования нового типа...
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М.: Прогресс-Традиция, 2017. — 276 c., 315 илл. В книге анализируются памятники средневекового исламского зодчества, описанные в книге "Сафарнама" (Книга путешествия) персидско-таджикского поэта, философа, путешественника и проповедника XI в. Насира Хусрава. Жажда познания мира и сущности бытия заставили его совершить семилетнее странствие из Хорасана в страны Ближнего и...
Алматы: САГА, 2001. — 255 с. — ISBN 9965-443-05-X Задача, которую поставил перед собой автор книги-атласа – Хашимов Мурадхан Абдурахманович, сводилась к тому, чтобы объединить встречающийся в различных литературных источниках обширный материал о религиозных и духовных памятниках Центральной Азии и дать широкому кругу читателей обобщенные сведения о них. Автором в результате...
Худжанд: Вароруд, 2002. — 62 c.+28 с.: илл. — (Архитектурные памятники Центральной Азии).
Книга посвящена истории создания одного из величайших архитектурных памятников Средней Азии - Мавзолея Шейха Муслихиддина в городе Худжанде.
М.: Прогресс-Традиция, 2014. — 232 c. — ISBN: 978-5-89826-412-3 Книга посвящена становлению архитектуры современной мечети, лучшие образцы которой входят в противоречие с классической мечетью арабского или иранского типа. Полное обследование всего корпуса современных мечетей не входит в задачу автора. Мечеть изначально нацелена на трансформативность своей формы, трансформациям...
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