Islamic Architecture Through Western Eyes. Volume 1, Spain, Turkey, India and Persia / Michael Greenhalgh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Greenhalgh, Michael, author.

Series:

Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2023.

Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2023

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islamic architecture--Sources.

Islamic architecture.

Travelers' writings.

Islamic countries--Description and travel.

Islamic countries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (390 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, The Netherlands : Koninklijke Brill NV, [2023]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book, the first of three, offers an anthology of Western descriptions of Islamic religious buildings of Spain, Turkey, India and Persia, mostly from the seventeenth to early twentieth centuries, taken from books and ambassadorial reports. As travel became easier and cheaper, thanks to viable roads, steamships, hotels and railways, tourist numbers increased, museums accumulated eastern treasures, illustrated journals proliferated, and photography provided accurate data. The second volume covers some of the religious architecture of Syria, Egypt and North Africa, while the third deals with Islamic palaces around the Mediterranean. All three deal with the impact of Western trade, taste and imports on the East, and examine the encroachment of westernised modernism, judged responsible for the degradation of Islamic styles.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Michael Greenhalgh

Copyright page / Michael Greenhalgh

Preface for the Three Volumes / Michael Greenhalgh

Illustrations / Michael Greenhalgh

Chapter 1 Introduction / Michael Greenhalgh

Chapter 2 Churches, Mosques and Travellers / Michael Greenhalgh

Chapter 3 Spain / Michael Greenhalgh

Chapter 4 Constantinople and Adrianople with a Note on Greece / Michael Greenhalgh

Chapter 5 Asia Minor / Michael Greenhalgh

Chapter 6 India and Persia / Michael Greenhalgh

Chapter 7 Coda: Mecca and Medina / Michael Greenhalgh

Bibliography – Sources / Michael Greenhalgh

Bibliography – Modern Scholars / Michael Greenhalgh

Index / Michael Greenhalgh

Illustrations / Michael Greenhalgh.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Print version: Greenhalgh, Michael Islamic Architecture Through Western Eyes: Spain, Turkey, India and Persia

ISBN:

9789004524859

OCLC:

1354207804

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004524859 DOI