Medieval Monuments of Central Asia : : Qarakhanid Architecture of the 11th and 12th Centuries / / Richard Piran McClary.
Studies the surviving pre-Mongol monuments of Islamic architecture in Central AsiaThe first complete overview of the corpus of Qarakhanid monuments, with a detailed overview of the extant Soviet-era literature and a study of the inscriptionsIncludes archival images from Soviet-era publications showi...
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Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2020 |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Art : ESIA
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (344 p.) :; 37 B/W illustrations 184 colour illustrations 57 B/W line art |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Series Editor’s Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Note on Transliteration and Names
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER 1 Antecedent Structures in the Region
- CHAPTER 2 The Earliest Intact Tomb: Shah Fazl Tomb at Safid Buland
- CHAPTER 3 The Development of a Style: Three Qarakhanid Tombs at Uzgend
- CHAPTER 4 The Qarakhanid Architecture of Bukhara: a Study of the Namazgah, Maghak-i ‘Attari Mosque Portal and the Chashma-i Ayyub Mazar Portal
- CHAPTER 5 Qarakhanid Minarets
- CHAPTER 6 The Qarakhanid Aesthetic: Structural Methods and Decoration
- CHAPTER 7 Qarakhanid Epigraphy: the Calligraphic, Numismatic and Architectural Evidence
- CHAPTER 8 Urban Developments under the Qarakhanids: the Archaeological and Textual Evidence
- CONCLUSION
- Bibliography
- Gazetteer
- Index