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Mamluk history through architecture : monuments, culture and politics in medieval Egypt and Syria /
Mamluk architecture is key to the social history of the period. Analysing Mamluk constructions as a form of communication and documentation as well as a cultural index, Mamluk History Through Architecture shows how the buildings mirror the complex-and historically unique-military, political, social...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
I.B. Tauris,
2010.
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| Colección: | Library of Middle East history ;
v. 21. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The changing concept of Mamluk in the Mamluk Sultanate in Egypt and Syria
- Representing the Mamluks in Mamluk historical writing
- Perception of architecture in Mamluk sources
- Architects and artists in Mamluk society : the perspective of the sources
- The mosaics of the Qubba al-Zahiriyya in Damascus : a classical Syrian medium acquires a Mamluk signature
- The militarisation of taste in medieval Bilad al-Sham
- Al-Azhar mosque : an architectural chronicle of Cairo's history
- Documenting building in the Waqf system
- The Iwans of the Madrasa of Sultan Hasan
- Qasr : an agent of monumentality in Mamluk architecture
- Mamluk throne halls : Qubba or Iwan
- Writing the history of Islamic architecture in Cairo
- The ideological significance of the Dar al'Adl in the medieval Islamic orient
- 'Ajib and Gharib : artistic perception in medieval Arabic sources
- The formation of the neo-Mamluk style on modern Egypt.