Studies in Arab architecture Bernard O'Kane.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

O'Kane, Bernard, author.

Series:

Collected Papers in Islamic Art

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islamic architecture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (570 pages)

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2021]

Summary:

This lavishly illustrated volume - with many images previously unpublished in colour - collects 18 articles by Bernard O'Kane on a wide variety of topics in Arab architecture.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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Figures

Preface

CHAPTER ONE. Mughal Tilework: Derivative or Original?

CHAPTER TWO. Architecture and Court Cultures of the Fourteenth Century

CHAPTER THREE. The Mausoleum of Yayha al-Shabih Revisited (with Bahia Shehab)

CHAPTER FOUR. The Mosques of Egypt: An Introduction

CHAPTER FIVE. Residential Architecture of the Darb Zubayda

CHAPTER SIX. The Design of Cairo’s Masonry Domes

CHAPTER SEVEN. James Wild and the Mosque of Bashtak, Cairo

CHAPTER EIGHT. The Great Mosque of Hama Redux

CHAPTER NINE. Ayyubid Architecture in Cairo

CHAPTER 10. The Nine-bay Plan in Islamic Architecture: Its Origin, Development and Meaning

CHAPTER ELEVEN. The Arboreal Aesthetic: Landscape, Painting and Architecture from Mongol Iran to Mamluk Egypt

CHAPTER TWELVE. Domestic and Religious Architecture in Cairo: Mutual Influences

CHAPTER THIRTEEN. The Ziyāda of the Mosque of al-Ḥākim and the Development of the Ziyāda in Islamic Architecture

CHAPTER FOURTEEN. The Mosque

CHAPTER FIFTEEN. Monumentality in Mamluk and Mongol Art and Architecture

CHAPTER SIXTEEN. The Madrasa of Badr al-Dīn al-ʿAynī and its Tiled Miḥrāb (with Laila Ibrahim)

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN. The Rise of the Minaret

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN. Review of Michael Hamilton Burgoyne and Donald Richards, Mamluk Jerusalem: An Architectural Study

CHAPTER NINETEEN. Widening the Horizons for the Study of Islamic Architecture

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Other Format:

Print version: O'Kane, Bernard Studies in Arab Architecture

ISBN:

1-4744-7491-8

1-4744-7490-X

OCLC:

1289811815