Studies in Arab Architecture / / Bernard O'Kane.

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• VerfasserIn: O'Kane, Bernard,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Collected Papers in Islamic Art : CPIA
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (560 p.) :; 2 B/W illustrations; 267 colour illustrations

Curates a selection of key articles by Bernard O’Kane that combine analyses of monuments in the Arab world with overviews of the central elements of Iranian architectureCovers the key elements of architecture in countries from Morocco to IndiaIncludes subjects ranging from decoration to plan typesSituates the monuments within their social and political contextsIncludes over 200 photographs, many published in colour for the first timeThis lavishly illustrated volume – with many images previously unpublished in colour – collects 18 articles by Bernard O’Kane on a wide variety of topics in Arab architecture. The essays range from from Morocco to India, and from the earliest periods of Islam to the present day. He concentrates on monuments in Egypt and Syria, analysing topics such as the borrowings between domestic and religious architecture, studies of individual buildings and mutual influences between Iran and Egypt.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Preface -- CHAPTER ONE. Mughal Tilework: Derivative or Original? -- CHAPTER TWO. Architecture and Court Cultures of the Fourteenth Century -- CHAPTER THREE. The Mausoleum of Yayha al-Shabih Revisited (with Bahia Shehab) -- CHAPTER FOUR. The Mosques of Egypt: An Introduction -- CHAPTER FIVE. Residential Architecture of the Darb Zubayda -- CHAPTER SIX. The Design of Cairo’s Masonry Domes -- CHAPTER SEVEN. James Wild and the Mosque of Bashtak, Cairo -- CHAPTER EIGHT. The Great Mosque of Hama Redux -- CHAPTER NINE. Ayyubid Architecture in Cairo -- CHAPTER 10. The Nine-bay Plan in Islamic Architecture: Its Origin, Development and Meaning -- CHAPTER ELEVEN. The Arboreal Aesthetic: Landscape, Painting and Architecture from Mongol Iran to Mamluk Egypt -- CHAPTER TWELVE. Domestic and Religious Architecture in Cairo: Mutual Influences -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN. The Ziyāda of the Mosque of al-Ḥākim and the Development of the Ziyāda in Islamic Architecture -- CHAPTER FOURTEEN. The Mosque -- CHAPTER FIFTEEN. Monumentality in Mamluk and Mongol Art and Architecture -- CHAPTER SIXTEEN. The Madrasa of Badr al-Dīn al-ʿAynī and its Tiled Miḥrāb (with Laila Ibrahim) -- CHAPTER SEVENTEEN. The Rise of the Minaret -- CHAPTER EIGHTEEN. Review of Michael Hamilton Burgoyne and Donald Richards, Mamluk Jerusalem: An Architectural Study -- CHAPTER NINETEEN. Widening the Horizons for the Study of Islamic Architecture -- Index