Mamluk history through architecture : monuments, culture and politics in medieval Egypt and Syria /: monuments, culture and politics in medieval Egypt and Syria. (2010)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Nasser Rabbat.
• Other Names: Rabbat, Nasser O
• Contents: The changing concept of Mamluk in the Mamluk Sultanate in Egypt and Syria -- Representing the Mamluks in Mamluk historical writing -- Perception of architecture in Mamluk sources -- Architects and artists in Mamluk society : the perspective of the sources -- The mosaics of the Qubba al-Zahiriyya in Damascus : a classical Syrian medium acquires a Mamluk signature -- The militarisation of taste in medieval Bilad al-Sham -- Al-Azhar mosque : an architectural chronicle of Cairo's history -- Documenting building in the Waqf system -- The Iwans of the Madrasa of Sultan Hasan -- Qasr : an agent of monumentality in Mamluk architecture -- Mamluk throne halls : Qubba or Iwan -- Writing the history of Islamic architecture in Cairo -- The ideological significance of the Dar al'Adl in the medieval Islamic orient -- 'Ajib and Gharib : artistic perception in medieval Arabic sources -- The formation of the neo-Mamluk style on modern Egypt.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : I.B.Tauris
• Publication Date: 2010
• Extent: 1 online resource (288 pages)
• Subjects: 962.02; Architecture, Mameluke -- Egypt; Architecture, Mameluke -- Syria; Mamelukes; Architecture, Mameluke; Mamelukes; Mameluken -- Architektur; Architektur -- Mameluken; Islamische Architektur -- Gesellschaft -- Syrien -- Geschichte Mittelalter; Islamische Architektur -- Gesellschaft -- Ägypten -- Geschichte Mittelalter; Egypt -- History -- 1250-1517; Syria -- History -- 1260-1516; Egypt; Syria; Syrien -- Geschichte Mittelalter; Ägypten -- Geschichte Mittelalter; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781786723864; 1786723867
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