UID:
almafu_9959230645102883
Format:
1 online resource (246 p.)
ISBN:
1-134-09649-6
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1-134-09650-X
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1-280-94351-3
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9786610943517
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0-203-94647-2
Series Statement:
SOAS/Routledge studies on the Middle East ; 6
Content:
This volume is an inter-disciplinary endeavour which brings together recent research on aspects of urban life and structure by architectural and textual historians and archaeologists, engendering exciting new perspectives on urban life in the pre-modern Islamic world. Its objective is to move beyond the long-standing debate on whether an 'Islamic city' existed in the pre-modern era and focus instead upon the ways in which religion may (or may not) have influenced the physical structure of cities and the daily lives of their inhabitants. It approaches this topic from three different but inte
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; ILLUSTRATIONS; CONTRIBUTORS; ABBREVIATIONS; NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION; 1. INTRODUCTION; PART I: THE GENESIS OF 'ISLAMIC' CITIES; 2. AN URBAN STRUCTURE FOR THE EARLY ISLAMIC CITY: An archaeological hypothesis; 3. THE FOUNDATION LEGEND OF FEZ AND OTHER ISLAMIC CITIES IN LIGHT OF THE LIFE OF THE PROPHET; 4. THE CITY OF SULTAN KALA, MERV, TURKMENISTAN: Communities, neighbourhoods and urban planning from the eighth to the thirteenth century; PART II: POWER AND THE CITY; 5. POWER AND THE CITY IN THE ISLAMIC WEST FROM THE UMAYYADS TO THE ALMOHADS
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6. CEREMONIAL AND SACRED SPACE IN EARLY FATIMID CAIRO7. FIRUZKUH: The summer capital of the Ghurids; 8. FATHPUR SIKRI AND ISFAHAN: The founding and layout of capital cities in Mughal India and Safavid Iran; PART III: THE IMPACT OF RELIGION ON URBAN LIFE; 9. THE WATER SUPPLY OF TINNIS: Public amenities and private investments; 10. HEALTH, SPIRITUALITY AND POWER IN MEDIEVAL IBERIA: The maristan and its role in Nasrid Granada; 11. COMMERCE AND SPIRITUALITY: The urbanism of Ridwan Bey; INDEX
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-55381-4
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-42439-9
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9780203946473
