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 :
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Le waqf de la mosquée des Omeyyades de Damas. Le manuscrit ottoman d'un inventaire mamelouk établi en 816-1413 /
: In French with Arabic manuscripts in fasimile. and in transcription with facing French translation; abstractsin French, English and Arabic. : 741 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm. : Includs bibliographical references and index. : 9782351597378
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
al-Azhar fi ̄alf ʻām /
: "Wa-sayajid al-qariʾ fi hathihi al-ṭabʻah mulḥaqan min iʻdād idārat al-silsilah yataḍaman bayānan bimā jadda ʻala al-Azhar wa-hayātihi al-mukhtalifah fi al-fatrah al-akhīrah, maʻa tarjamah mujazah li-Shīūkh al-Azhar wa-qādatihi": p. 7. : 168 pages ; 20 cm. : Includes bibliographical references.
Jāmiʻ al-Qarawīyīn : al-masjid wa-al-jāmiʻah bi-madīnat Fās : mawsūʻah li-tārīkhuhā al-miʻmārī wa-al-fikrī /
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At head of title: Fī tārīkh al-Maghrib.
Added t.p., v. 1: al-Qaraouiyyine; v. 2: La Mosquée Alqaraouiyn. :
3 volumes (871 p.) : illstrations ; 29 cm. :
Bibliography: v. 1, p. 21-[40]