Studies in Arab architecture /
This lavishly illustrated volume, with many images previously unpublished in color, collects eighteen articles by Bernard O'Kane on a wide variety of topics in Arab architecture. The essays range from from Morocco to India, and from the earliest periods of Islam to the present day. He concentra...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2021].
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| Series: | Collected papers in Islamic art.
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| Summary: | This lavishly illustrated volume, with many images previously unpublished in color, collects eighteen articles by Bernard O'Kane on a wide variety of topics in Arab architecture. The essays range from from Morocco to India, and from the earliest periods of Islam to the present day. He concentrates on monuments in Egypt and Syria, analyzing topics such as the borrowings between domestic and religious architecture, studies of individual buildings and mutual influences between Iran and Egypt. |
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| Physical Description: | xiv, 552 pages : chiefly color illustrations, plans ; 26 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1474474888 9781474474887 |