| ISBN |
088402329X |
| 9780884023296 |
| Title |
Middle East garden traditions : unity and diversity / edited by Michel Conan |
| Publisher |
Washington, DC ; Cambridge, MA : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, and Spacemaker Press ; distributed by Harvard University Press, 2007 |
| Physical desc. |
363 p. ; ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 27 cm. |
| Note |
Papers presented at the 31st Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture, "held at the Freer and Sackler Galleries, April 27-28, 2007, and co-organized by Dumbarton Oaks and the Freer and Sackler Galleries" -- T.p. verso. |
| CBL illustrations: p. 246 (T 413 f. 22b, 23a) |
| Bibliography etc. |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Contents |
Learning from Middle East garden traditions / Michel Conan. -- The rose and the balsam: the garden as a source of perfume and medicine / Yizhar Hirschfeld. -- Soil improvement and agricultural pesticides in antiquity: examples from archaeological research in Israel / Yotam Tepper. -- An approach to the visual analysis of the gardens of Al-Andalus / Antonio Almagro. -- Ornamental plants in agricultural and botanical treatises from Al-Andalus / Expiración Garciá Sánchez and J. Estaban Hernández Bermejo. -- The garden strategy of the Almohad sultans and their successors (1157-1900) / Mohammed El Faïz; transl. by Maryrica Ortiz Lottman. -- Princely Safavid gardens: stage for rituals of imperial display and political legitimacy / Mahvash Alemi. -- The royal gardens of Farāhābad and the fall of Shah Sultan Husayn revisited / Jean-Do Brignoli. -- My garden is Hindustan: the Mughal padshah's realization of a political metaphor / Ebba Koch. -- Questions about the political significance of Mughal garden waterworks / James L. Wescoat Jr. -- Matrakçi Nasuh and Evliya Çelebi: perspectives on Ottoman gardens (1534-1682) / Nurhan Atasoy. -- Unity and diversity of Mughal garden experiences / Abdul Rehman and Shama Anbrine. -- Gardens at the Kağıthane commons during the Tulip period (1718-1730) / B. Deniz Çalış. -- Rajput gardens and landscapes / Jennifer Joffee and D. Fairchild Ruggles. -- From the Andalusí garden to the Andalusian garden: remnants and re-creation / José Tito Rojo and Manuel Casares Porcel. -- Gardens of Afghanistan / Benedict Bull. |
| Meeting |
Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture |
| Subject |
Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- T 413 |
| Gardens, Islamic -- History -- Congresses |
| Gardens -- Islamic countries -- History -- Congresses |
| Gardens, Mogul Congresses |
| Added name(s) |
Conan, Michel 1939- ed. |
| Added name(s) - Corporate |
Dumbarton Oaks |
| Freer Gallery of Art |
| Arthur M. Sackler Gallery (Smithsonian Institution) |
| Meeting Name |
Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture (31st) . 2007 , Washington, D.C. |
