Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

The essays in this book represent an up to date research and investigation into the various aspects of heritage and sustainability in the Islamic Built environments with an analysis of the problems that these cities face, as they confront the forces of gl

Urban renewal --- Sustainable development --- City planning --- Islamic cities and towns.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

The purpose of this book, is to draw attention to the sites of life, politics and culture where current and past generations of the Islamic world have made their mark. Unlike many previous volumes dealing with the city in the Islamic world, this one has been specially expanded not only to include snapshots of historical fabric but also to deal with the transformation of this fabric into modern and contemporary urban entities.

Islamic cities and towns --- Cities and towns --- History --- Social life and customs --- Intellectual life --- History. --- Intellectual life. --- Social life and customs. --- Villes islamiques --- Villes --- Histoire --- Islamic countries --- Pays musulmans --- Moeurs et coutumes --- Vie intellectuelle --- Cities and towns, Islamic --- Muslim cities and towns --- Global cities --- Municipalities --- Towns --- Urban areas --- Urban systems --- Human settlements --- Sociology, Urban --- Islamic cities and towns - Islamic countries - History --- Islamic cities and towns - Islamic countries - Social life and customs --- Islamic cities and towns - Islamic countries - Intellectual life --- Cities and towns - Islamic Empire --- Pays islamiques

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

This volume is an inter-disciplinary endeavour which brings together recent research on aspects of urban life and structure by architectural and textual historians and archaeologists, engendering exciting new perspectives on urban life in the pre-modern Islamic world. Its objective is to move beyond the long-standing debate on whether an 'Islamic city' existed in the pre-modern era and focus instead upon the ways in which religion may (or may not) have influenced the physical structure of cities and the daily lives of their inhabitants. It approaches this topic from three different but inte

Islam --- History of civilization --- Cities and towns --- Islamic cities and towns --- History. --- Global cities --- Municipalities --- Towns --- Urban areas --- Urban systems --- Human settlements --- Sociology, Urban --- Cities and towns, Islamic --- Muslim cities and towns

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

This book contains articles on historic cities of the Islamic world, ranging from West Africa to Malaysia, which over the centuries have been centres of culture and learning and of economic and commercial life, and which have contributed much to the consolidation of Islam as a faith and as a social and political institution. The articles have been taken from the second edition of the Encyclopaedia of Islam, completed in 2004, but in many cases expanded and rewritten. All have been updated to include fresh historical information, with note of contemporary social developments and population statistics. The book thus delineates the urban background of Islam has it has evolved up to the present day, highlighting the role of such great cities as Cairo, Istanbul, Baghdad and Delhi in Islamic history, and also brings them together in a rich panorama illustrating one of mankind's greatest achievements, the living organism of the city.

Ciudades musulmanas --- Vida urbana --- Cities and towns --- City and town life --- Islamic cities and towns --- City life --- Town life --- Urban life --- Sociology, Urban --- Cities and towns, Islamic --- Muslim cities and towns --- Global cities --- Municipalities --- Towns --- Urban areas --- Urban systems --- Human settlements --- History. --- Villes islamiques --- Villes --- Histoire --- Dictionnaires --- Empire islamique

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

The first urban study of the Iranian city of Maibud over its 6000-year history Persian cities are part of a corridor of civilisation with settlements straddling thousands of years. Taking Maibud as a case study, Eisa Esfanjary traces the evolution of ancient settlements chronologically, thematically and methodologically. Maibud provides the basis from which a new interpretive approach is developed, being a city that has a history of several millennia yet has a scale that renders it manageable with archaeological remains that range across several phases of building development. An archetypal example of middle-sized Persian cities, it affords insights into the entire urban landscape and its spatial, functional and morphological iterations. Within this overall picture, a methodology is developed to explore various morphological elements of the city, the three key components of which are the town plan, the building type, and construction materials. The inter-relationships between these three components are explained in order to formulate an approach to support the management and conservation of the historic urban landscape. Combining a rigorous survey and observation of the standing structures with scarce archaeological and written sources, this book sheds light on Islamic urbanism in general and Islamic urbanism in Iran particularly

Islamic cities and towns --- Architecture --- Architecture, Western (Western countries) --- Building design --- Buildings --- Construction --- Western architecture (Western countries) --- Art --- Building --- Cities and towns, Islamic --- Muslim cities and towns --- Cities and towns --- History. --- Design and construction --- Iran --- Maybud (Iran) --- Meybod (Iran) --- Maybod (Iran) --- Maibod (Iran) --- ميبد (ايران) --- Meibod (Iran) --- República Islâmica do Irã --- Irã --- Persia --- Northern Tier --- Islamic Republic of Iran --- Jumhūrī-i Islāmī-i Īrān --- I-lang --- Paras-Iran --- Paras --- Persia-Iran --- I.R.A. --- Islamische Republik Iran --- Islamskai︠a︡ Respublika Iran --- I.R.I. --- IRI --- ايران --- جمهورى اسلامى ايران --- Êran --- Komarî Îslamî Êran --- Buildings, structures, etc. --- Landscape archaeology --- Cities and towns, Ancient --- Cities and towns, Medieval --- Architecture, Primitive