The Garden of the Mosques : Hafiz Hüseyin al-Ayvansarayî's Guide to the Muslim Monuments of Ottoman Istanbul /
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This is an annotated translation of what is perhaps the most important Ottoman literary source for the Islamic monuments of the Ottoman capital, Istanbul: Hafız Hüseyin bin Ismail Ayvansarayî's Hadikat al-Cevami (The Garden of Mosques). Long recognized by Turkish scholars as a unique source for the city's architecture and urban form, the text, which was completed in 1195/1780 and revised and enlarged between 1248/1832-33 and 1253/1838 by Ali Sati, contains separate descriptions of each of Istanbul's more than 800 mosques, plus accounts of its medreses, tombs, tekkes and other monuments. The annotations place each of these buildings within the city's urban plan and provide biographical information about the patrons, architects and other personalities mentioned in the text. An introductory essay gives an account of Ayvansarayî's life and works, describes the various manuscript versions of the text and reviews the cartographic resources available for the study of Istanbul's urban form.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
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Masājid Miṣr min sanat 21 ilá sanat 1365 H(sanat 641 ilá sanat 1946 M) : majmūʻah min al-manāẓir al-mulawwanah wa-ghayr al-mulawwanah li-ahamm al-masājid fī Miṣr maʻa nubdhah tārīk...
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Introd. dated : 1954.
Two maps on 2 folded leaves (Kharīṭat al-Qāhirah tubayyinal-āthār al-Islāmīyah) and their index (Fihris al-āthār al-Islāmīyah bi-madīnat al-Qāhirah. 11, 14, 12 pages ; 40 cm.[Cairo] : Maṣlaḥat al-Misāḥah, 1951) in pocket. :
2 volumes : illustrations (some color), color maps, plans ; 44 cm.
al-Qāhirah al-Islāmīyah : masājid Maydān Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn /
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"Islamic Cairo : mosques of Salah al-Din Square / [designed & executed by Amal M. Safwat El-Alfy]."
Added title page: Islamic Cairo mosques of Salah al-Din Square. :
44, 45 pages, 40 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), 1 folded map, folded plans ; 24 cm.
The Mosques of Egypt /
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Less than ten years after the death of the Prophet Muhammad, the new religion of Islam arrived in Egypt with the army of Amr ibn al-As in AD 639. Amr immediately established his capital at al-Fustat, just south of modern Cairo, and there he built Africa's first mosque, one still in regular use today. Since then, governors, caliphs, sultans, amirs, beys, pashas, among others, have built mosques, madrasas, and mausoleums throughout Egypt in a changing sequence of Fatimid, Ayyubid, Mamluk, Ottoman, and modern styles. Here, a leading historian of Islamic art and culture celebrates the great variety of Egypt's mosques and related religious buildings, from the early congregational mosques, through the medieval mausoleum--madrasas, to the neighborhood mosques of the Ottoman and modern periods. With outstanding architectural photography and authoritative descriptive texts, this book will be valued as the finest on the subject by scholars and general readers alike. Includes more that 80 of the country's most historic mosques, with more than 500 color photographs. -- Inside jacket flap.
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xxxix, 359 pages : illustrations ; 31 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references ( pages 351-356) and index. :
9789774167324