Creating medieval Cairo : empire, religion, and architectural preservation in nineteenth-century Egypt /
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"This book argues that the historic city we know as Medieval Cairo was created in the nineteenth century by both Egyptians and Europeans against a background of four overlapping political and cultural contexts: namely, the local Egyptian, Anglo-Egyptian, Anglo-Indian, and Ottoman imperial milieux. Addressing the interrelated topics of empire, local history, religion, and transnational heritage, historian Paula Sanders shows how Cairo's architectural heritage became canonized in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The book also explains why and how the city assumed its characteristically Mamluk appearance and situates the activities of the European-dominated architectural preservation committee (known as the Comiť) within the history of religious life in nineteenth-century Cairo. Sanders explores such varied topics as the British experience in India, the Egyptian debate over religious reform, and the influence of The Thousand and One Nights on European notions of the medieval Arab city ... this volume examines the unacknowledged colonial legacy that continues to inform the practice of and debates over preservation in Cairo."
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xv, 216 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references (pages 188-206) and index. :
9774160959
Ṣāliḥ Lamʻī Muṣṭafá fī arwiqat al-turāth al-ʻimrānī : Minṭaqat Makkah al-Mukarramah, al-Mamlakah al-ʻArabīyah al-Saʻūdīyah /
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Raqm al-īdāʻ: 706/1443. :
464 pages : illustrations (some color), plans (some color) ; 25 x 33 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references (pages 460- 463). :
9786038014493
6038014497
Ṣāliḥ Lamʻī Muṣṭafá fī arwiqat al-turāth al-ʻimrānī : Minṭaqat al-Riyāḍ, al-Mamlakah al-ʻArabīyah al-Saʻūdīyah /
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Raqm al-īdāʻ: 1262/1443. :
308 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, plans (some color) ; 25 x 33 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references (pages 302- 306). :
9786038014516
6038014519
Ṣāliḥ Lamʻī Muṣṭafá fī arwiqat al-turāth al-ʻimrānī : Minṭaqat al-Madīnah al-Munawwarah, al-Mamlakah al-ʻArabīyah al-Saʻūdīyah /
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Raqm al-īdāʻ: 360/1443. :
268 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, plans (some color) ; 25 x 33 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265- 267). :
9786038014486
6038014489
Architecture, power and religion in Lebanon : Rafiq Hariri and the politics of sacred space in Beirut /
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In Architecture, Power and Religion in Lebanon , Ward Vloeberghs explores Rafiq Hariri's patronage and his posthumous legacy to demonstrate how religious architecture becomes a site for power struggles in contemporary Beirut. By tracing the 150 year-long history of the Muhammad al-Amin Mosque - Lebanon's principal Sunni mosque - and the subsequent development of the site as a commemoration venue, this account offers a unique illustration of how architecture, religion and power become discursively and visually entangled. Set in a multi-confessional society marked by social inequalities and political fragmentation, this interdisciplinary study analyses how architectural practice and urban reconfigurations reveal a nascent personality cult, communal mourning, and the consolidation of political territory in relation to constantly shifting circumstances.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004307056 :
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
Modern Middle-Class Housing in Tehran : Reproduction of an Archetype: Episodes of Urbanism 1945-1979 /
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"In Modern Middle-Class Housing in Tehran - Reproduction of an Archetype, Rana Habibi offers an engaging analysis of the modern urban history of Tehran during the Cold War period: 1945-1979. The book, while arguing about the institutionalism of modernity in the form of modern middle-class housing in Tehran, shows how vernacular archetypes found their way into the construction of new neighborhoods. The trajectory of ideal modernism towards popular modernism, the introduction of modern taste to traditional society through architects, while tracing the path of transnational models in local projects, are all subjects extensively expounded by Rana Habibi through engaging graphical analyses and appealing theoretical interpretations involving five modern Tehran neighborhoods"--
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004443709
9789004443686
The Religious and Cultural Landscape of Ottoman Manastır /
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In this ground-breaking work on the Ottoman town of Manastir (Bitola), Robert Mihajlovski, provides a detailed account of the development of Islamic, Christian and Sephardic religious architecture and culture as it manifested in the town and precincts. Originally a town on the edge of the Via Egnatia, this small provincial town gradually developed into a significant administrative, military, religious, cultural and intellectual centre for the Balkans; a vibrant place, nurturing progressive multi-cultural and multi-confessional values with considerable influence on the formation of modern Balkan identities. The present work is the culmination of thirty years of research using primary source material from archives and chronicles and the monuments themselves for the purpose of both preserving and extending the boundaries of current knowledge. It offers a comprehensive biography of a great cultural knot in the Balkans and offers a rich source for further use by scholars, students and non-technical readership alike.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004465268
9789004465251