Islam : early architecture from Baghdad to Cordoba / Henri Stierlin ; photographs, Anne and Henri Stierlin
2002, Edition Unstated. Köln ; New York : Taschen. Fine paperback copy. Particularly well-preserved; tight, bright and clean. Item #446983
ISBN: 3822817864
Physical description; 240 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 30 cm. Notes; Subtitle on cover: Early architecture from the 7th to the 13th century. Includes bibliographical references (page 237) and indexes. Contents; The origins of Islam -- The Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem: The first masterpiece of Islamic art -- The Great Mosque of the Umayyads of Damascus: A monument in the image of paradise -- Umayyad palaces: agricultural estates in the deserts of Syria and Palestine -- Umayyad spendor in Cordoba: An Arab civilization in Spain -- The grandeur of the Abbasid Caliphate: Mesopotamia, center of the Islamic world -- The diversity of Muslim Egypt: from the Sunni sultans to the Fatimid caliphs -- The disintegration of the Far Western empire: from Aghlabid Ifriqiya to the Maghred of the Almohads -- Upheavals in the Near East: the rise of the Ayyubids and the decline of the Abbasids -- New concepts of space. Subject; Islamic architecture. Architecture, Medieval. Islam. Islamic art.
Price: €10.95