Format:
1 Online-Ressource (XIII, 376 Seiten)
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Illustrationen
ISBN:
9789004524859
Series Statement:
Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2023
Content:
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
Note:
English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004524842
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Islamic Architecture through Western Eyes: Spain, Turkey, India and Persia : Volume 1 Leiden : Brill, 2023 ISBN 9789004524842
Language:
English
Keywords:
Islamische Architektur
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Wahrnehmung
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Beschreibung
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Geschichte
DOI:
10.1163/9789004524859
Author information:
Greenhalgh, Michael 1943-
