Les éléments décoratifs sur les peintures de la Cathédrale de Faras /
: Title on added title pages : Motywy dekoracyjne, ornamenty i wzory na malowidłach ściennych Katedry w Faras. : 128 pages, [103] pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 830101301X : 0137-6454 ;
Al-Qāhirah al-khidīwīyah : raṣd wa-tawthīq ʻimārat wa-ʻumrān minṭaqat wasaṭ al-madīnah /
: Another title: Kedivian Cairo - Identification and documentation of Urban-Architecture in Downtown Cairo. : 6, 331 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 33 x 33 cm. : Bibliography : page 330. : 9771704508
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
The Palace of Darius at Susa : the great royal residence of Achaemenid Persia /
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"Published in association with the Iran Heritage Foundation".
Translation of : Le palais de Darius à Suse : une résidence royale sur la route de Persépolis à Babylone. :
xxix, 507 pages : color illustrations, maps ; 31 cm :
Includes bibliographical references (pages 487-497) and index. :
1848856210 (hbk.)
9781848856219 :
Omnia
Concours pour le musée des Antiquités égyptiennes du Caire, 1895 /
: "Actes du colloque international tenu à l'Institut français d'archéologie orientale, Le Caire, 12 novembre 2007"--T.p. verso. : 256 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9782708408562
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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