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Islamic gardens and landscapes
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9780812240252 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0812240251 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Author
Ruggles, D. Fairchild
Title
Islamic gardens and landscapes / [by] D. Fairchild Ruggles
Publisher
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008
Physical desc.
xii, 262 p., [16] p. of col. plates ; ill. (some col.), maps, plans ; 27 cm.
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Penn studies in landscape architecture
Note
CBL illustrations: p. 107 (T 413, f. 115v)
Bibliography etc.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-253) and index
Contents
The Islamic landscape: place and memory. -- Making the desert bloom: transforming an inhospitable earth. -- The science of gardening: agricultural and botanical manuals. -- Organizing the earth: cross-axial gardens and the chahar bagh. -- Trees and plants: botanical evidence from texts and archaeology. -- Representations of gardens and landscape: imagery in manuscript paintings, textiles, and other media. -- Imaginary gardens: gardens in fantasy and literature. -- The garden as Paradise: the historical beginnings of paradisiac iconography. -- The here and hereafter: mausolea and tomb gardens. -- A garden in landscape: the Taj Mahal and its precursors. -- Religion and culture: the adoption of Islamic garden culture by non-Muslims. -- Lists of gardens and sites.
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Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- T 413
Gardens, Islamic
Gardens, Mogul
Landscape architecture
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