The Great Mosque of Damascus : Studies on the Makings of an Umayyad Visual Culture /

The celebrated Great Mosque of Damascus was built in the early eighth century by the Umayyad caliph al-Walīd b. 'Abd al-Malik. This book provides a detailed study of this Mosque. Using textual, visual, and archaeological evidence, the author attempts to reconstruct some of the basic formal and...

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Main Author: Flood, Finbarr (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2000.

Series: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495.
Islamic History and Civilization ; 33.

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Architecture, Medieval > Syria > Damascus.

Architecture, Medieval.

Islamic architecture > Syria > Damascus.

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