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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Umayyad mosque of Damascus
    sub title: art, faith and empire in early Islam
  name:
    name part: George, Alain
    name part: 1979-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2021
    copyright date: 2021
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  language:
    language term: ara
  language:
    language term: ara
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 261 pages : illustrations (some color), plans ; 30 cm.
  abstract: The Umayyad Mosque of Damascus is one of the oldest continuously used religious sites in the world. The mosque we see today was built in 705 CE by the Umayyad caliph al-Walid on top of a fourth century Christian church that had been erected over a temple of Jupiter. Incredibly, despite the recent war, the mosque has remained almost unscathed, but over the centuries has been continuously rebuilt after damage from earthquakes and fires. In this comprehensive biography of the Umayyad Mosque, Alain George explores a wide range of sources to excavate the dense layers of the mosque's history, also uncovering what the structure looked like when it was first built with its impressive marble and mosaic-clad walls. George incorporates a range of sources, including new information he found in three previously untranslated poems written at the time the mosque was built, as well as in descriptions left by medieval scholars. He also looks carefully at the many photographs and paintings made by nineteenth-century European travelers, particularly those who recorded the building before the catastrophic fire of 1893.
  note: Alain George.
  note: Appendices in Arabic with English translation.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: a-sy---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Jāmiʻ al-Umawī al-Kabīr (Damascus, Syria)
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Umayyad dynasty
  subject:
    topic: Mosques
    geographic: Syria
    geographic: Damascus
  classification: 726/.209569144
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Gingko Library art series
  identifier: 9781909942455
  identifier: 1909942456
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 210412
    record change date: 20220105155548.0
    record identifier: in00004366946