Author: Stanley Lane-PoolePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
The Art of the Saracens in Egypt
Author: Stanley Lane-PoolePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
The Art of the Saracens in Egypt..
Author: Stanley Lane-PooleThe Arts of the Mamluks in Egypt and Syria
Author: Doris Behrens-AbouseifPublisher: V&R unipress GmbH
ISBN: 3899719158
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Based on the conference "The Arts of the Mamluks in Egypt and Syria" held at SOAS in 2009.
The Builder
Author: The Art Journal
Author: Creating Medieval Cairo
Author: Paula SandersPublisher: American Univ in Cairo Press
ISBN: 9789774160950
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
"In many areas it breaks new ground, asks new questions, and gives a far more sophisticated, nuanced presentation of preservation and conservation issues for Egypt than I have seen elsewhere . . .. [C]overs familiar territory in a totally new manner." - Jere Bacharach, University of Washington This book argues that the historic city we know as Medieval Cairo was created in the nineteenth century by both Egyptians and Europeans against a background of four overlapping political and cultural contexts: namely, the local Egyptian, Anglo-Egyptian, Anglo-Indian, and Ottoman imperial milieux. Addressing the interrelated topics of empire, local history, religion, and transnational heritage, historian Paula Sanders shows how Cairo's architectural heritage became canonized in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The book also explains why and how the city assumed its characteristically Mamluk appearance and situates the activities of the European-dominated architectural preservation committee (known as the Comité) within the history of religious life in nineteenth-century Cairo. Sanders explores such varied topics as the British experience in India, the Egyptian debate over religious reform, and the influence of The Thousand and One Nights on European notions of the medieval Arab city. Offering fresh perspectives and keen historical analysis, this volume examines the unacknowledged colonial legacy that continues to inform the practice of and debates over preservation in Cairo.
The art journal London
Author: American Journal of Archaeology
Author: Stealing from the Saracens
Author: Diana DarkePublisher: Hurst & Company
ISBN: 1787383059
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Europeans are in denial. Against a backdrop of Islamophobia, they are increasingly distancing themselves from their cultural debt to the Muslim world. But while the legacy of Islam and the Middle East is in danger of being airbrushed out of Western history, its traces can still be detected in some of Europe's most recognisable monuments, from Notre-Dame to St Paul's Cathedral. In this comprehensively illustrated book, Diana Darke sets out to redress the balance, revealing the Arab and Islamic roots of Europe's architectural heritage. She tracks the transmission of key innovations from the great capitals of Islam's early empires, Damascus and Baghdad, via Muslim Spain and Sicily into Europe. Medieval crusaders, pilgrims and merchants from Europe later encountered Arab Muslim culture in journeys to the Holy Land. In more recent centuries, that same route through modern-day Turkey connected Ottoman culture with the West, leading Sir Christopher Wren himself to believe that Gothic architecture should more rightly be called 'the Saracen style', because of its Islamic origins. Recovering this overlooked story within the West's long history of borrowing from the Islamic world, Darke sheds new light on Europe's buildings and offers rich insights into the possibilities of cultural exchange.
Hispano-Moresque Pottery in the Collection of the Hispanic Society of America
Author: Hispanic Society of AmericaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pottery
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description