Domes Arches And Minarets

Author : Phil Pasquini
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780967001616
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Domes, Arches and Minarets written by Phil Pasquini and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique book by traces the history and development of Islamic-inspired architecture in the U.S. from the earliest Spanish-Moorish buildings constructed in the 1700s to the more contemporary buildings of the 21st century. With more than 100 original color photographs of buildings from across America, Domes, Arches and Minarets discusses the origins, influences and inspiration that has created this very distinctive and rich part of the American cityscape.

Author : Jonathan M. Bloom
Publisher : Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Art
ISBN 13 : 9781474437226
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Minaret written by Jonathan M. Bloom and published by Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Art. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bloom reveals that the Minaret, long understood to have been invented in the early years of Islam as the place from which the muezzin gives the call to prayer, was actually invented some two centuries later to be a visible symbol of Islam. Drawing on buildings, archaeological reports, medieval histories, geographies, and early Arabic poetry, he reinterprets the origin, development, and meanings of the minaret and provides a sweeping historical and geographical tour of the minaret's position as the symbol of Islam.

Author : Robert Hillenbrand
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Architecture of Ottoman Jerusalem written by Robert Hillenbrand and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A well illustrated introduction to the splendid public monuments of Ottoman Jerusalem, including mosques, madrasas, Sufi convents, minarets, fountains and the famous structures of the Haram.

Author : Ahmad Sanusi Hassan
Publisher : Penerbit USM
ISBN 13 : 9838616648
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Anatolia to Bosnia: Perspectives on Pendentive Dome Mosque Architecture (Penerbit USM) written by Ahmad Sanusi Hassan and published by Penerbit USM. This book was released on with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book consists of eight topics which discusses on pendentive dome mosque architecture. It contributes architectural design knowledge which emphasizes on sustainable development based on Islamic perspective in the mosque architecture in Anatolia and Bosnia as well as in the Balkan region. The mosque design should become the model (primary reference) to other building designs because the design postures an act and intention of the man’s prostration to the God’s natural built environment. This book also discusses on Ottoman mosque architecture in Anatolia and its influence to the mosque design in Bosnia Herzegovina and the Balkan region. All topics are supported by either analytical or literature findings, which can benefit the future research, education and practices.

Author : G Passerini
Publisher : WIT Press
ISBN 13 : 1784662518
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Islamic Heritage Architecture and Art II written by G Passerini and published by WIT Press. This book was released on 2018-07-18 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papers presented at the 2nd International Conference on Islamic Heritage Architecture and Art are contained in this volume. The conference attracted important research highlighting the significance of Islamic heritage architecture and art to the world and its influence across different regions. The papers deal with the design of many types of buildings in Islamic countries, including not only the better known public buildings like mosques, mausolea, citadels and forts, but also houses and gardens, engineering works such as bridges and dams, irrigation systems and many others which have also had a profound impact on society. Traditional architecture and urban environment in most Islamic countries is now being eroded by overemphasis on a global type of architecture and city planning. As a consequence, many regions are losing their identity. The included studies review these developments in the light of what classical Islamic urban design and architecture has to offer modern society. Research contained in this book provides an analysis of the materials employed and the types of structural elements used, particularly those unique to Islamic architecture. Associated topics covered include music, textiles and ceramics, which are essential parts of the architectural fabric. Also looked at are construction materials, including not only stone and brick but also more perishable materials like adobe, wood and reeds. The preservation of heritage features also requires the development of appropriate conservation techniques in response to the different materials used and the ways structural forms work, including under extreme conditions, such as earthquakes. Academics, researchers, practitioners and government employees actively involved in the topic of Islamic heritage architecture and art will find this publication of interest.

Author : Jonathan M. Bloom
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Minaret, Symbol of Islam written by Jonathan M. Bloom and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1989 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using buildings, archaeological reports, medieval histories, geographies and early Arabic poetry, this book reinterprets the origin, development and meanings of the minaret. explaining how the tower became identified with Islam. Bloom shows how the introduction of the tower into the mosque marked a major shift in the iconography of architecture and how the tower, once a sign of political and royal power, became associated with religious architecture. Charting the spread of the minaret throughout the Islamic lands until its universal acceptance as a sign, Bloom concludes with an overview of subsequent developments once the minaret had become the symbol of Islam.

Author : DIANA. DARKE
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1911723472
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book STEALING FROM THE SARACENS written by DIANA. DARKE and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Akel Isma'il Kahera
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793646880
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Place of the Mosque written by Akel Isma'il Kahera and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-06-14 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Place of the Mosque: Genealogies of Space, Knowledge, and Power extends Foucault’s analysis, Of Other Spaces, and the “ideological conflicts which underlie the controversies of our day [and] take place between pious descendants of time and tenacious inhabitants of space.” This book uses Foucault’s framework to illuminate how mosques have been threatened in the past, from the Cordóba Mosque in the eighth century, to the development of Moorish aesthetics in the United States in the nineteenth century, to the clashes surrounding the building of mosques in the West in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Akel Kahera uses Foucault’s genealogy to elaborate on and study the subjects that are caught in the emergence of a battle—the social and political will to power, the networks of power, and the rituals of power—within the interstitial space. In going beyond individual buildings to broader geographical and genealogical dimensions of the power struggles, The Place of the Mosque reconciles the public space experience, governmentality, and micro powers, paving the way for a new philosophical language. Expanding architectural and urban regional approaches, Kahera shows the biopolitical significance of the problem of space.

Author : Michael Frishkopf
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477312463
Total Pages : 477 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Music, Sound, and Architecture in Islam written by Michael Frishkopf and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together the perspectives of ethnomusicology, Islamic studies, art history, and architecture, this edited collection investigates how sound production in built environments is central to Muslim religious and cultural expression.

Author : Doris Behrens-Abouseif
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004096264
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Islamic Architecture in Cairo written by Doris Behrens-Abouseif and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1992 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For architecture or history students or interested travellers, presents descriptions, histories, photographs, plans, and drawings of detail for buildings erected in the Egyptian capital from the earliest Islamic through the Ottoman periods. References to the Survey Map of the Islamic Monuments of Cairo aid readers in finding the buildings. A reprint of the 1989 publication. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR