TY - BOOK ID - 64924184 TI - Building the caliphate : construction, destruction, and sectarian identity in early Fatimid architecture PY - 2020 SN - 9780300246827 030024682X PB - New Haven : ©2020 Yale University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Architecture, Fatimid KW - Islamic architecture KW - Fatimites KW - Arab architecture KW - Architecture, Arab KW - Architecture, Islamic KW - Architecture, Moorish KW - Architecture, Muslim KW - Architecture, Saracenic KW - Moorish architecture KW - Muslim architecture KW - Saracenic architecture KW - Religious architecture KW - Fatimid architecture KW - History KW - Africa, North KW - History. KW - 72.033.3 KW - 72.033.3 Architectuur van de Islam; Arabie in de Middeleeuwen KW - Architectuur van de Islam; Arabie in de Middeleeuwen KW - Islamic decoration and ornament KW - religious buildings KW - Fatimid KW - Architecture, Fatimid. KW - Islamic architecture. KW - Fatimites. KW - 647-1517 KW - North Africa. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:64924184 AB - "This groundbreaking study investigates the early architecture of the Fatimids, an Ismaili Shi'i Muslim dynasty that dominated the Mediterranean world from the 10th to the 12th century. This period, considered a golden age of multicultural and interfaith tolerance, witnessed the construction of iconic structures, including Cairo's al-Azhar and al-Hakim mosques and crucial renovations to Jerusalem's Dome of the Rock and Aqsa Mosque. However, it also featured large-scale destruction of churches under the notorious reign of al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, most notably the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem. Jennifer A. Pruitt offers a new interpretation of these and other key moments in the history of Islamic architecture, using newly available medieval primary sources by Ismaili writers and rarely considered Arabic Christian sources. Building the Caliphate contextualizes early Fatimid architecture within the wider Mediterranean and Islamic world and demonstrates how rulers manipulated architectural form and urban topographies to express political legitimacy on a global stage." -- ER -