The Origin of the Cruciform Plan of Cairine Madrasas
Author | : Keppel A. C. Creswell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 54 |
Release | : 1922 |
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Author | : Keppel A. C. Creswell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 54 |
Release | : 1922 |
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ISBN | : |
Author | : Kir A C Creswell, Sir |
Publisher | : Hardpress Publishing |
Total Pages | : 126 |
Release | : 2012-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781290384926 |
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Author | : Aydin Mehmed Sayili |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 714 |
Release | : 1941 |
Genre | : Islam and science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Leo Ary Mayer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 406 |
Release | : 1933 |
Genre | : Arabs |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jāmiʻat al-Iskandarīyah. Kullīyat al-Ādāb |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 796 |
Release | : 1959 |
Genre | : Arabic literature |
ISBN | : |
Author | : D. Fairchild Ruggles |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 205 |
Release | : 2020-05-19 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 0190873205 |
Shajar al-Durr--known as "Tree of Pearls"--began her remarkable career as a child slave, given as property to the Ayyubid Sultan Salih of Egypt. She became his favorite concubine, was manumitted, became the sultan's wife, served as governing regent, and ultimately rose to become the legitimately appointed sultan of Egypt in 1250 after her husband's death. Shajar al-Durr used her wealth and power to add a tomb to his urban madrasa; with this innovation, madrasas and many other charitably endowed architectural complexes became commemorative monuments, a practice that remains widespread today. A highly unusual case of a Muslim woman authorized to rule in her own name, her reign ended after only three months when she was forced to share her governance with an army general from the ranks of the Mamluks (elite slave soldiers) and for political expediency to marry him. Despite the fact that Shajar al-Durr's story ends tragically with her assassination and hasty burial, her deeds in her lifetime offer a stark alternative to the continued belief that women in the medieval period were unseen, anonymous, and inconsequential in a world that belonged to men. This biography--the first ever in English--will place the rise and fall of the sultan-queen in the wider context of the cultural and architectural development of Cairo, the city that still holds one of the largest and most important collections of Islamic monuments in the world. D. Fairchild Ruggles also situates the queen's extraordinary architectural patronage in relation to other women of her own time, such as Aleppo's Ayyubid regent. Tree of Pearls concludes with a lively discussion of what we can know about the material impact of women of both high and lesser social rank in this period, and why their impact matters in the writing of history.
Author | : Finbarr Barry Flood |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 1442 |
Release | : 2017-06-16 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1119068576 |
The two-volume Companion to Islamic Art and Architecture bridges the gap between monograph and survey text by providing a new level of access and interpretation to Islamic art. The more than 50 newly commissioned essays revisit canonical topics, and include original approaches and scholarship on neglected aspects of the field. This two-volume Companion showcases more than 50 specially commissioned essays and an introduction that survey Islamic art and architecture in all its traditional grandeur Essays are organized according to a new chronological-geographical paradigm that remaps the unprecedented expansion of the field and reflects the nuances of major artistic and political developments during the 1400-year span The Companion represents recent developments in the field, and encourages future horizons by commissioning innovative essays that provide fresh perspectives on canonical subjects, such as early Islamic art, sacred spaces, palaces, urbanism, ornament, arts of the book, and the portable arts while introducing others that have been previously neglected, including unexplored geographies and periods, transregional connectivities, talismans and magic, consumption and networks of portability, museums and collecting, and contemporary art worlds; the essays entail strong comparative and historiographic dimensions The volumes are accompanied by a map, and each subsection is preceded by a brief outline of the main cultural and historical developments during the period in question The volumes include periods and regions typically excluded from survey books including modern and contemporary art-architecture; China, Indonesia, Sub-Saharan Africa, Sicily, the New World (Americas)
Author | : Paula Sanders |
Publisher | : American University in Cairo Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2008-01-01 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1617972304 |
This book argues that the historic city we know as Medieval Cairo was created in the nineteenth century by both Egyptians and Europeans against a background of four overlapping political and cultural contexts: the local Egyptian, Anglo-Egyptian, Anglo-Indian, and Ottoman imperial milieux. Addressing the interrelated topics of empire, local history, religion, and transnational heritage, historian Paula Sanders shows how Cairo's architectural heritage became canonized in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The book also explains why and how the city assumed its characteristically Mamluk appearance and situates the activities of the European-dominated architectural preservation committee (known as the Comité) within the history of religious life in nineteenth-century Cairo. Offering fresh perspectives and keen historical analysis, this volume examines the unacknowledged colonial legacy that continues to inform the practice of and debates over preservation in Cairo.
Author | : Doris Behrens-Abouseif |
Publisher | : V&R unipress GmbH |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 3899719158 |
Based on the conference "The Arts of the Mamluks in Egypt and Syria" held at SOAS in 2009.
Author | : Doris Abouseif |
Publisher | : I.B. Tauris |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 2007-10-24 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : |
This history of Mamluk architecture spans three centuries and examines the monuments of the Mamluks in their social, political and urban context, during the period of their rule (1250-1517). This book displays the multiple facets of Mamluk patronage, and also provides a succinct discussion of the sixty key monuments built in Cairo by the Mamluk sultans. A richly illustrated volume with color photographs, plans and isometric drawings, this will be an essential reference work for scholars and students of the art and architecture of the Islamic world as well as art historians and historians of late medieval Islamic history.