In the shadow of the church : the building of mosques in early medieval Syria /

In the shadow of the church : the building of mosques in early medieval Syria /

In his book In the Shadow of the Church: The Building of Mosques in Early Medieval Syria Mattia Guidetti examines the establishment of Muslim religious architecture within the Christian context in which it first appeared in the Syrian region, contributing to the debate on the transformation of late...

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Main Author: Guidetti, Mattia.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]

Series: Arts and Archaeology of the Islamic World 08.
Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2017, ISBN: 9789004325999.

Subjects:

To 1500
Mosques > Syria > History > To 1500.
Church architecture > Influence.
Building materials > Recycling > History > Syria > To 1500.
Islam and architecture > Syria > History > To 1500.
Architecture and society > Syria > History > To 1500.
Architecture and society.
Building materials > Recycling.
Islam and architecture.
Mosques.
Syria.
History.

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Call Number: NA4670

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction
  • After the Conquest: The Entangled Lives of Churches and Mosques
  • The Contiguity of Churches and Mosques
  • In and Out of Place
  • Material Transfers in the Early Medieval Mediterranean: Marble Columns from Churches to Mosques
  • More Christianorum: Marble and Columns in Early Medieval Mosques
  • Epilogue
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Plates.