Architecture of the Islamic west : North Africa and the Iberian Peninsula, 700-1800 / Jonathan M. Bl...
Architecture of the Islamic west : North Africa and the Iberian Peninsula, 700-1800 / Jonathan M. Bl...
Architecture of the Islamic west : North Africa and the Iberian Peninsula, 700-1800 / Jonathan M. Bloom ; with drawings by Nicholas Warner.
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Publisher
New Haven : Yale University Press, 2020.
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GQ 2022/0052
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Language
English
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Physical content
319 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans (some color), maps ; 28 cm
Content type
text
still image
cartographic image
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Introduction and acknowledgments -- 1. Islamic architecture in Umayyad al-Andalus and Aghlabid Ifriqiya -- 2. Rival caliphates in the West during the tenth century -- 3. The long eleventh century: dissolution of empire -- 4. The Almoravids and Almohads, c. 1050-c. 1250 -- 5. The Nasrids in al-Andalu...
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Publisher
New Haven : Yale University Press, 2020.
Place of Publication
Connecticut
Date Published
2020.
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Summary
"Some of the most outstanding examples of world architecture, such as the Mosque of Cordoba, the ceiling of the Cappella Palatina in Palermo, the Giralda tower in Seville, and the Alhambra Palace in Granada, belong to the Western Islamic tradition. This architectural style flourished for over a thousand years along the southern and western shores o...
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Architecture of the Islamic west : North Africa and the Iberian Peninsula, 700-1800 / Jonathan M. Bloom ; with drawings by Nicholas Warner.
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North Africa and the Iberian Peninsula, 700-1800
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 294-309) and index.
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©2020
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GQ 2022/0052
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74VKarvvjQdl
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKarvvjQdl
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ISBN
0300218702
9780300218701
DDC
720.91767
MMS ID
991024441727002626
