The production of meaning in Islamic architecture and ornament / Yasser Tabbaa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tabbaa, Yasser, 1948- author.

Series:

Collected papers in Islamic art.

Edinburgh scholarship online.

Collected papers in Islamic art

Edinburgh scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islamic architecture.

Architecture, Medieval.

Islam and art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (557 pages)

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2022.

Summary:

This volume collects Yasser Tabbaa's investigative and interpretive articles on medieval Islamic architecture, ornament and gardens in Syria and Iraq, with comparisons to Anatolia, Egypt, North Africa and Spain, within the context of the political divisions and theological ruptures of the Islamic world between the 11th and 13th centuries.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Figures

Preface

Part I. Syria

Part II. Iraq

Part III. Domes

Part IV. Writing

Part V. Gardens

Part VI. Shrines

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2021.

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 5, 2022).

Other Format:

Print version: Tabbaa, Yasser The Production of Meaning in Islamic Architecture and Ornament

ISBN:

1-4744-8221-X

1-3995-0939-X

1-4744-8220-1

OCLC:

1289798308