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Islamic Art

Studies in Medieval Islamic Architecture
Vol I

by Robert Hillenbrand

30 x 24cm 524 pp. 229 illus.
£150.00
Publication: 2001
ISBN 1 899828 14 1
Cloth Bound

See also:
Vol II

Professor Hillenbrand has written extensively over the last twenty-five years on Islamic architecture from Spain to India and from the seventh to the twentieth century. He has paid consistent attention to the architecture of Iran, focusing particularly on the Saljuq period (11th-12th centuries), but has also worked on Umayyad monuments in the Levant between 660 and 750 A.D., a period when Islamic architecture came of age. Apart from recording unfamiliar buildings, he has increasingly concerned himself with the iconographic significance of Muslim buildings

The papers in these two volumes closely reflect these interests. Some present primary material, others attempt to explore the achievements of a specific period or dynasty while yet others analyse the religious, royal, or political context of an important monument or school of architecture. The opportunity has been taken to add illustrations to articles, and to provide additional notes and a comprehensive index.

Contents

Preface
The Legacy of the Dome of the Rock
The Ornament of the World - Cordoba
A Pair of Medieval Tomb Towers in Van
La dolce vita in Early Islamic Syria: the Evidence of Later Umayyad Palaces
Islamic Art at the Crossroads: East and West at Mshatta
Some Observations on the Use of Space in Medieval Islamic Buildings
Eastern Islamic Influneces in Syria: Raqqa and Qal'at Ja'bar in the Later Twelfth Century
Islamic Art, Architecture and Archaeology
The Classical Heritage in Islamic Art: the Case of Medieval Architecture
The Use of Spatial Devices in the Great Mosque of Cordoba
Islamic Art and Architecture
Political Symbolism in Early Indo-Muslim Mosque Architecture: the Case of Ajmir
Qur'anic Epigraphy in Medieval Islamic Architecture
Cresswell and Contemporary Central European Scholarship
Turco-Iranian Elements in the Medieval Architecture of Pakistan - the Case of the Tomb of Rukn-i 'Alam at Multan
Mamluk Caravansarais in Galilee
The Dervish Lodge. Architecture, Art and Sufism in Ottoman Turkey
Reflections on O. Aslanapa's Turkish Art and Architecture
Traditional Architecture in the Arabian Peninsula
Musalla
Qasr Kharana re-examined
Occidental Oriental: Islamic Influences in the Art of Britain and America
Splendour and Austerity. Islamic Architectural Ornament. The Monument
Reviews of M. Meinecke, Die Madrasa des Amir Mitqal
C. Ewert and J.-P. Wisshak, Forschungen zur almohadischen Moschee. I. Vorstafen
E. C. Dodd and S. Khairallah, The Image of the World