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Mamluk history through architecture: monuments, culture and politics in medieval Egypt and Syria

Mamluk history through architecture: monuments, culture and politics in medieval Egypt and Syria
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ISBN 1845119649 (hbk.)
9781845119645 (hbk.)
Author Rabbat, Nasser O.
Title Mamluk history through architecture : monuments, culture and politics in medieval Egypt and Syria / [by] Nasser Rabbat
Publisher London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2010
Physical desc. xiv, 261 p. ; ill. (b&w), plans ; 26 cm.
Series Library of Middle East history 21
Bibliography etc. Includes bibliographical references (p. 238-251) and index
Contents Pt. 1: Unpacking Mamluk sources. The changing concept of Mamluk in the Mamluk sultanate in Egypt and Syria -- Representing the Mamluks in Mamluk historical writing -- Perception of architecture in Mamluk sources -- Architects and artists in Mamluk society: the perspective of the sources -- Pt. 2: Architecture as history. The mosaics of the Qubba al-Zahiriyya in Damascus: a classical Syrian medium acquires a Mamluk signature -- The militarisation of taste in medieval Bilad al-Sham -- Al-Azhar Mosque: an architectural chronicle of Cairo's history -- Pt. 3: Architecture and language. Documenting buildings in the waqf system -- The iwans of the madrasa of Sultan Hasan -- Qasr: an agent of monumentality in Mamluk architecture -- Mamluk throne halls: qubba or iwan -- Pt. 4: Architecture as cultural index. Writing the history of Islamic architecture in Cairo -- The ideological significance of the Dar al-ʻAdl in the medieval Islamic Orient -- ʻAjib and gharib: artistic perception in medieval Arabic sources -- The formation of the neo-Mamluk style in modern Egypt.
Subject Mamelukes
Architecture, Mameluke -- Egypt
Architecture, Mameluke -- Egypt -- Cairo
Architecture, Mameluke -- Syria
Islamic architecture
Egypt -- History -- 1250-1517
Syria -- History -- 1260-1516
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