Islamic Architecture through Western Eyes: Spain, Turkey, India and Persia

Volume 1

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

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This book, the first of three, offers an anthology of Western descriptions of Islamic religious buildings of Spain, Turkey, India and Persia, mostly from the seventeenth to early twentieth centuries, taken from books and ambassadorial reports. As travel became easier and cheaper, thanks to viable roads, steamships, hotels and railways, tourist numbers increased, museums accumulated eastern treasures, illustrated journals proliferated, and photography provided accurate data. The second volume covers some of the religious architecture of Syria, Egypt and North Africa, while the third deals with Islamic palaces around the Mediterranean. All three deal with the impact of Western trade, taste and imports on the East, and examine the encroachment of westernised modernism, judged responsible for the degradation of Islamic styles.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2022-12-01
Mått155 x 235 x 30 mm
Vikt775 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor376
FörlagBrill
ISBN9789004524842

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ContentsPreface for the Three VolumesList of Illustrations1 Introduction1 Overview2 Crusades in East and West3 Contacts through Trade Trigger Westernised Modernisation4 Constantinople5 Arrangement of the Book2 Churches, Mosques and Travellers1 Westerners Travel around the East2 Ambassadors Study the Empire3 Viewing Mosque Architecture4 Drawing Mosque Exteriors and Interiors5 A Conflicting Mix of Ideas and Beliefs6 Forgotten? Westerners and the Eastern Crusades7 Dress and Doctors8 Western Habits and Actions Offend Muslims: Footwear and Spitting9 The End of Islam? The Empire in Decline?10 The Various Inhabitants of the Empire11 Architecture in the Empire: Wood, Maintenance and Competence12 Advice to Western Travellers from Western Authors13 East Is East: The Development of Curiosity Travel3 Spain1 Christians versus Muslims2 The Alhambra, Granada (Reconquered 1492)3 Charles V and Architecture4 Córdoba: the Great Mosque (Mezquita)5 Seville (Recaptured in 1248)6 Girault de Prangey and Arab Architecture4 Constantinople and Adrianople with a Note on Greece1 The Imperial Firman2 The Ottoman Building Programme3 Collecting Manuscripts in Constantinople4 Adrianople5 Constantinople6 Cityscape: “‘Tis Distance Lends Enchantment to the View”7 Cityscape: Strolling the Streets8 Seeing Hagia Sophias Everywhere They Look: Royal Mosques9 Domes, Minarets, and Dimensions10 Some Constantinople Mosques Visited by Travellers11 Topkapi / Seraglio12 Greece: Athens13 Tripolitza5 Asia Minor1 On and Off the Beaten Track2 Aleppo3 Alexandria Troas4 Ankara5 Ayasoluk – Selçuk – Ephesus6 Bursa7 Cyzicus8 The Dardanelles and Its Cannon9 Erzerum10 Karaman, Mut and Nigde11 Konya12 Lampsacus13 Magnesia / Manisa14 Miletus15 Mylasa16 Nicaea17 Pergamum18 Smyrna6 India and Persia1 India2 Persia3 Collecting Persian Tiles4 A Miscellany of Mosques7 Coda: Mecca and MedinaBibliography – SourcesBibliography – Modern ScholarsIndexIllustrations