Download or read book Rebuilding Anatolia After the Mongol Conquest written by Patricia Blessing and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with the Mongol conquest of Anatolia in 1243, and ending with the demise of the Ilkhanid Empire in the 1330s, this book considers how the integration of Anatolia into the Mongol world system transformed architecture and patronage in this frontier region. Blessing considers the monuments built during this period alongside written sources i

Download or read book Bibliography of Art and Architecture in the Islamic World 2 vols written by Susan Sinclair and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-04-03 with total page 1508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the tradition and style of the acclaimed Index Islamicus, the editors have created this new Bibliography of Art and Architecture in the Islamic World. The editors have surveyed and annotated a wide range of books and articles from collected volumes and journals published in all European languages (except Turkish) between 1906 and 2011. This comprehensive bibliography is an indispensable tool for everyone involved in the study of material culture in Muslim societies.

Download or read book Rome in the East written by Warwick Ball and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-01-04 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this lavishly illustrated and arresting study, Warwick Ball presents the story of Rome's overwhelming fascination with the East through a coverage of the historical, architectural and archaeological evidence unparalleled in both breadth and detail. This was a fascination of the new world for the old, and of the mundane for the exotic - a love affair that took literal form in the story of Antony and Cleopatra. From Rome's legendary foundation by Aeneas and the Trojan heroes as the New Troy, through the installation of Arabs as Roman emperors, to the eventual foundation of the new Rome by a latter-day Aeneas at Constantinople, the East took over Rome, - and Rome eventually ditched Europe to the barbarians. Rome in the East overturns the received wisdom about Rome as the bastion of European culture. Newly available in paperback, and illustrated with almost 300 photographs, plans and drawings, its accessible and comprehensive approach makes it an ideal resource for both the academic and general reader.

Download or read book The Great Mosque of Damascus written by Finbarr Flood and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-07-26 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focussing on the Great Mosque of Damascus, this volume discusses the scope and significance of the building campaign undertaken by the Umayyad caliph al-Walid b. ‘Abd al-Malik (86-96/705-15), and its implications for the development of early Islamic visual culture.

Download or read book Companion Encyclopedia of Archaeology written by Graeme Barker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-08-13 with total page 1267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive, fully illustrated Companion answers the need for an in-depth archaeology reference that provides authoritative coverage of this complex and interdisciplinary field. The work brings together the myriad strands and the great temporal and spatial breadth of the field into two thematically organized volumes. In twenty-six authoritative and clearly-written essays, this Companion explores the origins, aims, methods and problems of archaeology. Each essay is written by a scholar of international standing and illustrations complement the text.

Download or read book Temples and Sanctuaries in the Roman East written by Arthur Segal and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 849 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lavishly illustrated volume presents a comprehensive architectural study of 87 individual temples and sanctuaries built in the Roman East between the end of the 1st century BCE and the end of the 3rd century CE, within a broad region encompassing the modern states of Syria, Lebanon, Israel and Jordan. Religious architecture gave faithful expression to the complexity of the Roman East and to its multiplicity of traditions pertaining to ethnic and religious aspects as well as to the powerful influence of Imperial Rome. The source of this power lay in the uniformity of the architectural language, the inventory of forms, the choice of styles and the spatial layout of the buildings. Thus, while temples have an eclectic character, there is an underlying unity of form comprising the podium, the stairway between the terminating walls (antae) and the columns along the entrance front - in other words, the axiality, frontality and symmetry of the temple as viewed from outside. The temples and sanctuaries studied in this volume demonstrate individual nuances of plan, spatial design, location in the sanctuary and interrelations with the immediate vicinity but can be divided into two main categories: Vitruvian temples (derived from Hellenistic-Roman architecture) and Non-Vitruvian temples (those with plans and spatial designs that cannot be analysed according to architectural criteria such as those defined by Vitruvius). The individual descriptions presented focus solely upon the analysis of the external and internal space of the temples of all types and do not involve any cultural or ethnic discussion.

Download or read book The Islamic Villa in Early Medieval Iberia written by GlaireD. Anderson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 1029 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the aristocratic villas and court culture of C?ba, during its 'golden age' under the reign of the Umayyad dynasty (r. 756-1031 AD), this study illuminates a key facet of the secular architecture of the court and its relationship to the well-known Umayyad luxury arts. Based on textual and archaeological evidence, it offers a detailed analysis of the estates' architecture and gardens within a synthetic socio-historical framework. Author Glaire Anderson focuses closely on the C?ban case study, synthesizing the archaeological evidence for the villas that has been unearthed from the 1980s up to 2009, with extant works of Andalusi art and architecture, as well as evidence from the Arabic texts. While the author brings her expertise on medieval Islamic architecture, art, and urbanism to the topic, the book contributes to wider art historical discourse as well: it is also a synthetic project that incorporates material and insights from experts in other fields (agricultural, economic, and social and political history). In this way, it offers a fuller picture of the topic and its relevance to Andalusi architecture and art, and to broader issues of architecture and social history in the caliphal lands and the Mediterranean. An important contribution of the book is that it illuminates the social history of the C?ban villas, drawing on the medieval Arabic texts to explain patterns of patronage among the court elite. An overarching theme of the book is that the C?ban estates fit within the larger historical constellation of Mediterranean villas and villa cultures, in contrast to long-standing art historical discourse that holds villas did not exist in the medieval period.

Download or read book In Search of Kings and Conquerors written by Lisa Cooper and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-01-28 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the height of her career, Bell journeyed into the heart of the Middle East retracing the steps of the ancient rulers who left tangible markers of their presence in the form of castles, palaces, mosques, tombs and temples. Among the many sites she visited were Ephesus, Binbirkilise and Carchemish in modern-day Turkey as well as Ukhaidir, Babylon and Najaf within the borders of modern Iraq. Lisa Cooper here explores Bell's achievements, emphasizing the tenacious, inquisitive side of her extraordinary personality, the breadth of her knowledge and her overall contribution to the archaeology of the Middle East. Featuring many of Bell's own photographs, this is a unique portrait of a remarkable life.

Download or read book The Architecture of Alexandria and Egypt C 300 B C to A D 700 written by Judith McKenzie and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This masterful history of the monumental architecture of Alexandria, as well as of the rest of Egypt, encompasses an entire millennium—from the city’s founding by Alexander the Great in 331 B.C. to the years just after the Islamic conquest of A.D. 642. Long considered lost beyond recall, the architecture of ancient Alexandria has until now remained mysterious. But here Judith McKenzie shows that it is indeed possible to reconstruct the city and many of its buildings by means of meticulous exploration of archaeological remains, written sources, and an array of other fragmentary evidence. The book approaches its subject at the macro- and the micro-level: from city-planning, building types, and designs to architectural style. It addresses the interaction between the imported Greek and native Egyptian traditions; the relations between the architecture of Alexandria and the other cities and towns of Egypt as well as the wider Mediterranean world; and Alexandria’s previously unrecognized role as a major source of architectural innovation and artistic influence. Lavishly illustrated with new plans of the city in the Ptolemaic, Roman, and Byzantine periods; reconstruction drawings; and photographs, the book brings to life the ancient city and uncovers the true extent of its architectural legacy in the Mediterranean world.

Download or read book Interdisciplinary Studies on Ancient Stone written by Association for the Study of Marble and Other Stones used in Antiquity. International Symposium and published by Institut Catala D'Arqueologia Classica. This book was released on 2012 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Origins of the Colonnaded Streets in the Cities of the Roman East written by Ross Burns and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-26 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The colonnaded axes define the visitor's experience of many of the great cities of the Roman East. How did this extraordinarily bold tool of urban planning evolve? The street, instead of remaining a mundane passage, a convenient means of passing from one place to another, was in the course of little more than a century transformed in the Eastern provinces into a monumental landscape which could in one sweeping vision encompass the entire city. The colonnaded axes became the touchstone by which cities competed for status in the Eastern Empire. Though adopted as a sign of cities' prosperity under the Pax Romana, they were not particularly 'Roman' in their origin. Rather, they reflected the inventiveness, fertility of ideas and the dynamic role of civic patronage in the Eastern provinces in the first two centuries under Rome. This study will concentrate on the convergence of ideas behind these great avenues, examining over fifty sites in an attempt to work out the sequence in which ideas developed across a variety of regions-from North Africa around to Asia Minor. It will look at the phenomenon in the context of the consolidation of Roman rule.

Download or read book Age of Transition written by Edward Bleiberg and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2015 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building on the groundbreaking 2012 exhibition “Byzantium and Islam: Age of Transition,” which explored the transformations and continuities in the Byzantine Empire from the seventh to the ninth century, the present volume extends the exhibition catalogue’s innovative investigation of cultural interaction between Christian and Jewish communities and the world of Islam. Eleven essays by internationally distinguished scholars address such topics as the transmission of Christian imagery to the Mediterranean, icons preserved in The Holy Monastery of Saint Catherine at Sinai, interaction between Jewish communities and the Muslim world, the purposeful mutilation of figurative floor mosaics in places of worship, the evolution of classical and Byzantine motifs in a new cosmology for Muslim rulers, and interconnections in the realm of music. Each essay provides compelling evidence that the era of transition from Byzantine to Islamic rule in the eastern Mediterranean and North Africa resulted in unprecedented cultural cross-fertilization and significantly affected the development of the Mediterranean world for centuries to come.

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Download or read book The Encyclopaedia of Islam written by H. A. R. Gibb and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1996 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oleg Grabar, 'Michael Meinecke and His Last Book.' Thomas Leisten, 'Mashhad al-Nasr: Monuments of War and Victory in Medieval Islamic Art.' Jere L. Bacharach, 'Marwanid Umayyad Building Activities: Speculations on Patronage.' Nuha N.N. Khoury, 'The Meaning of the Great Mosque of Cordoba in the Tenth Century.' Nasser Rabbat, 'Al-Azhar Mosque: An Architectural Chronicle of Cairo's History.' Howyda N. Al-Harithy, 'The Complex of Sultan Hasan in Cairo: Reading between the Lines.' Michael Cooperson, 'Baghdad in Rhetoric and Narrative.' Aptullah Kuran, 'A Spatial Study of Three Ottoman Capitals: Bursa, Edirne, and Istanbul.' Filiz aĥman and Zeren Tanindi, 'Remarks on Some Manuscripts at the Topkapi Palace Treasury in the Context of Ottoman-Safavid Relations.' Yildirim Yavuz, 'The 1922-26 Restoration Project of the Masjid al-Aqsa by Mimar Kemalettin.' Anthony Welch, 'A Medieval Center of Learning in India: The Haus Khas in Delhi.' Alpay zdural, 'On Interlocking Similar or Corresponding Figures and Ornamental Patterns of Cubic Equations.'

Download or read book Ernst Herzfeld and the Development of Near Eastern Studies 1900 1950 written by Ann Gunter and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2005-02-01 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As archaeologist, philologist, and historian, German scholar Ernst Herzfeld (1879–1948) significantly shaped the study of the prehistoric to Islamic Near East. His life and work are reassessed and situated within decisive developments in research and politics in the 20th century, providing new insights into the historiography of the Near East.

Download or read book Caesarea Reports and Studies written by Kenneth G. Holum and published by British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited. This book was released on 2008 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume represents the fourth publication of interim reports from the land and sea excavations at Caserea Maritima in Israel. The results cover the full spectrum of settlement at the site, from c.300 BC to the nineteenth century, but here with a focus on the Byzantine and Islamic periods.

Download or read book Studies in Jewish Civilization 26 written by Leonard J. Greenspoon and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Twenty-Sixth Annual Klutznick-Harris Symposium, October 27 and October 28, 2013, in Omaha, Nebraska."