Islamic architecture through Western eyes. Volume 2, Syria, Egypt and North Africa / by Michael Greenhalgh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Greenhalgh, Michael.

Contributor:

E.J. Brill (Firm)

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islamic architecture--Sources.

Islamic architecture.

Travelers' writings.

Islamic countries--Description and travel.

Islamic countries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (429 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2024]

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Preface to the Three Volumes

List of Illustrations

Chapter 1 Introduction

1 The Crusades and Their Impact

2 Contacts Through Trade

3 Manuscripts Throughout the Empire

4 Nineteenth-century Travel and Tourism

5 Jerusalem and Cairo

6 The survival of Islam

7 Muslims, Christians and Jews

8 Dress and Stability: Two Disparities between West and East

9 Arrangement of the Book

Chapter 2 Syria and the Holy Land

1 Mosques and How to Enter Them

2 Sketching Islamic Antiquities: Paper and Panoramas

3 Acre: Djezzar's Mosque

4 Baalbek

5 Damascus

5.1 Cityscape

5.2 Mausolea of Saladin and Bibars

5.3 Green Mosque (Es-Sinaniyeh)

5.4 Umayyad Mosque

5.5 Peeping through the Gates

5.6 Local and European Dress

5.7 Viewing the Mosque from An Upper-storey Window

5.8 Pashas, Trade and Revolt

5.9 The 1860s: Pliant Governors, Fanatical Locals

5.10 From the 1870s: Easy Access

5.11 1893: the Mosque Burns

6 Gaza and Nablus

7 Hebron

7.1 A Brighter Future for Entry by Christians?

8 Baghdad (Present-day Iraq)

9 Jerusalem

9.1 Cityscape

9.2 The Contentious City

9.3 Jerusalem as a Cash Cow: Christians and Jews

9.4 The "Mosque of David"

9.5 The Holy Sepulchre

10 The Haram al Sharif and Its Monuments

10.1 The Platform of the Haram

10.2 Accessing the Haram

10.3 Christians View the Haram from the "House of Pilate"

10.4 The Dome of the Rock

10.5 Accessing the Dome after the Mid-19th Century

11 Ramla/Rama

12 Sidon

Chapter 3 Alexandria and Cairo

1 Alexandria's Mosques

2 Alexandria's and Cairo's Reuse of Antiquities

3 The Pyramids

4 Cairo

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Cairo for Christians

4.3 The French Occupation and Cairo's Monuments

4.4 Prosperity and Decline

4.5 Advice for Guided Visitors to Cairo

4.6 Cityscape

4.7 Minarets and Domes

4.8 Mosques

4.9 State of the Streets

4.10 State of the Mosques, and Access

4.11 Mosque/Madrasa of Al-Azhar (970 etc. #97)

4.12 Mosque of 'Amr (827 #319)

4.13 Mosque of Ahmed Ibn Tulun (876-9 #220)

4.14 Mosque/Madrasa/Mausoleum of Sultan Hasan (1356-1359 #133)

4.15 Mosque/Madrasa/Mausoleum of Sultan al-Mansur Qalawun (AD 1284-5 #43)

4.16 Mosque of al-Hakim (990-1013 #15)

4.17 Mosque/Mausoleum of Sultan al-Muayyad Shaykh (AD 1415-22 #190)

4.18 The Ghuriya (Mosque/Madrasa/Mausoleum of Sultan al-Ghuri, 1503-5 #189)

5 Boulaq

6 The Delights of the Citadel

6.1 The Great Diwan of Saladin/Joseph's Hall

6.2 Mosque of Sultan al-Nasir Muhammad (AD 1318-35 #143)

6.3 Mosque of Muhammad Ali (1833-57 #503)

7 Northern and Southern Cemeteries

7.1 Mosque/Mausoleum of Sultan al-Ashraf Qaytbay (r. 1468-96 #99)

8 Cairo, Modernism and Islamic Survivals

8.1 Restoration and Reconstruction

8.2.1 Museums and Old Monuments

Chapter 4 North Africa

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1 Setting the Scene

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

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 06, 2024).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Other Format:

Print version: Greenhalgh, Michael Islamic Architecture Through Western Eyes: Volume 2

ISBN:

9789004540873

9004540873

Publisher Number:

40032273530

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