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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Robert Hillenbrand |
ISBN: | 0231101325 9780231101325 0231101333 9780231101332 |
OCLC Number: | 30319450 |
Awards: | Association of American Publishers PROSE Award, 1994. |
Description: | xxvi, 645 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 26 cm |
Contents: | The scope of the enquiry: problems and approaches -- The Mosque -- The Minaret -- The Madrasa -- The mausoleum -- The Caravansarai -- The palace. |
Responsibility: | Robert Hillenbrand. |
Abstract:
This is the definitive survey of Islamic architecture. Working from a social, rather than a technical perspective, Hillenbrand shows how the buildings fulfilled their intended functions within the community. Lavishly illustrated.
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Elaborate and extensive... The brilliant dimension of this book is the author's investment in raising issues of intellectual inquiry. -- Howayda Al-Harithy Journal of the American Academy of Religion
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- Islamic architecture.
- Symbolism in architecture -- Islamic countries.
- Architecture islamique.
- Symbolisme en architecture -- Pays musulmans.
- Symbolism in architecture.
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