Earthen architecture in Muslim cultures : historical and anthropological perspectives / edited by St�ephane Pradines.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pradines, Stéphane, editor.

E.J. Brill (Firm)

Series:

Arts and archaeology of the Islamic world ; v. 10.

Arts and archaeology of the Islamic world ; volume 10

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Building, Adobe--Islamic countries.

Building, Adobe.

Earth construction--Islamic countries.

Earth construction.

Building, Clay--Islamic countries.

Building, Clay.

Earth houses--Islamic countries.

Earth houses.

Historic buildings--Islamic countries.

Historic buildings.

Islamic countries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 283 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Introduction: an architecture for the caliph and the poor / Stephane Pradines

1. Adobe as an Islamic Standard: Vernacular Cosmopolitics / Rolando Melo da Rosa

2. The Great Mosque of Timbuktu: Seven Centuries of Earthen Architecture / Bertrand Poissonnier

3. The Periphery Walls of Sijilmasa, a Medieval Islamic City in Morocco: Contribution to the Identification of Typological and Functional Variability of the Pise Technique / Francois-Xavier Fauvelle, Elarbi Erbati, Romain Mensan and Axel Daussy

4. Draa Valley: Tighremt and Igherm, Morocco / Marinella Arena and Paola Raffa

5. The Use of Earth in the Construction of the Q�ur in Southeastern Algeria / Mounia Chekhab-Abudaya

6. Identity and Architecture: The Fatimid Walls in Cairo / Stephane Pradines

7. Mud Brick Architecture in �Ha�dramawt-Yemen under the Qu�aiti and Kathiri Sultanates / Christian Darles

8. Building on the Shoreline: Insights into the Use of Earth in the Architecture of the Late 18th and 19th Centuries in Qatar / Moritz Kinzel

9. Residential Compounds: Earthen Architecture in the Central Desert of Iran / Atri Hatef Naiemi

10. Traditions of Monumental Decoration in the Earthen Architecture of Early Islamic Central Asia / Paul D. Wordsworth

11. Ottoman Earth Architecture in Buda (1541-1686) / Adrienn Papp

12. Between Tradition and Modernity: Building with Earth in a Contemporary City / Elizabeth Golden.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Leiden, Netherlands Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Online version: Earthen architecture in Muslim cultures.

ISBN:

9789004356337

9004356339

Publisher Number:

99987556896

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Restricted for use by site license.