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Muslim places of worship in Cyprus
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ISBN: 9963389503 9789963389506 Year: 2005 Publisher: Nicosia Association of Cypriot Archaeologists

The story of Islamic architecture
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ISBN: 1859641083 Year: 1999 Publisher: Reading Garnet

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There is perhaps no better place to observe how a living faith like Islam functions in its architectural setting than in the Great Mosque at Damascus. It is also the most appropriate place to begin a history of Islamic architecture since it was built in 715 and is the oldest congregational mosque in the Muslim world. Despite its antiquity, Richard Yeomans believes that the activity observed in the mosque today bears witness to an extraordinary continuity of worship and social behaviour reaching back nearly 1400 years to the Prophet Muhammad's own mosque in Medina. Using a broad historical narrative to explain the religious, social and political influences that shape the Islamic architectural form, "The Story of Islamic Architecture" reveals an architectural splendour that despite its diversity has coherence and continuity. Beginning with a brief description of the Muslim faith, the introductory chapters of this book illustrate how religious attitudes determine the form and function of Islamic art and architecture. The book then considers the genesis of a distinctly Islamic architecture from the first monuments when the Umayyad Caliphate, bringing with it political and mercantile acumen but scarce architectural knowledge, was totally dependent on the art, craft and building skills of the indigenous population in the countries it had conquered. These early monuments illustrate how the story of Islamic architecture is one of continuing adaptation, change and innovation in response to the complex cultural and racial diversity which constitutes the Muslim nation. The book then charts the gradual evolution and eventual emergence of a distinctive Arab identity in ninth-century Iraq, Tunisia and Egypt


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Die Moschee : Grundformen sakraler Baukunst.
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ISBN: 3760881084 Year: 1978 Publisher: Zürich Artemis


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Cairo of the Mamluks : a history of the architecture and its culture.
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ISBN: 9781845115494 184511549X Year: 2007 Publisher: London Tauris


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Muqarnas = : Muqarnas.
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ISSN: 22118993 07322992 Year: 1983 Publisher: New Haven : Leiden : Yale University Press, Brill

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Muqarnas is sponsored by The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. The program is dedicated to the study of Islamic architecture and urbanism, visual arts, and conservation and rehabilitation in an effort to respond to the cultural and educational needs of a diverse Islamic world. In Muqarnas articles are being published on all aspects of Islamic visual culture, historical and contemporary, as well as articles dealing with unpublished textual primary sources.


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Islamic architecture on the move : motion and modernity
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ISBN: 9781783206384 Year: 2016 Publisher: Bristol ; Chicago : Intellect Books,

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Even a casual observer can spy traces of Islamic architecture and design on buildings all over the world, a reminder that artistic traditions and visual culture have never been limited to their region or country of origin, but rather are highly diffusible. This book brings together scholars from architectural studies, design, art history, and other fields to challenge and expand concepts of Islamic architecture. Ranging from eighteenth-century Ottoman tents to manifestations of Islamic motifs in 1960s Hawaii, this richly illustrated volume raises key questions about Islamic architecture, and, more broadly, about how we can rethink our understanding of material, artistic, and cultural mobility in the modern world.


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Islamic architecture
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ISBN: 0810910101 9780810910102 Year: 1977 Publisher: New York (N.Y.): Abrams

Islamic arts
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ISBN: 071483176X Year: 1997 Publisher: London : Phaidon press,

Understanding Islamic architecture
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ISBN: 0700714383 131502876X 1136851313 0700714375 9781136851315 9781315028767 9780700714377 9780700714384 9781136851384 9781136851452 1136851380 Year: 2002 Publisher: London New York, N.Y.

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The ongoing debate among practitioners and in academia about the meaning and understanding of Islamic architecture will be energized by this book. It contains essays by architects and academics from various parts of the world which clarify how the carious disciplines of the design profession can be employed to build in the spirit of Islam.

Divided into three sections the book covers:

*meaning from Faith, which draws meaning from the Islamic faith in order to propose a built environment that is universally beneficial
*analysis of History, which examines historical buildings

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