Historic Cities Of The Islamic World
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Historic Cities of the Islamic World
Author | : Clifford Edmund Bosworth |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 631 |
Release | : 2007-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789004153882 |
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This book contains articles on historic cities of the Islamic world, ranging from West Africa to Malaysia, which over the centuries have been centres of culture and learning and of economic and commercial life, and which have contributed much to the consolidation of Islam as a faith and as a social and political institution. The articles have been taken from the second edition of the Encyclopaedia of Islam, completed in 2004, but in many cases expanded and rewritten. All have been updated to include fresh historical information, with note of contemporary social developments and population statistics. The book thus delineates the urban background of Islam has it has evolved up to the present day, highlighting the role of such great cities as Cairo, Istanbul, Baghdad and Delhi in Islamic history, and also brings them together in a rich panorama illustrating one of mankind's greatest achievements, the living organism of the city.
The City in the Islamic World Volume 94 1 94 2
Author | : Salma K. Jayyusi,Renata Holod,Attilio Petruccioli,Andre Raymond |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 1521 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789004162402 |
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The purpose of this book is to draw attention to the sites of life, politics and culture where current and past generations of the Islamic world have made their mark. Unlike many previous volumes dealing with the city in the Islamic world, this one has been expanded not only to include snapshots of historical fabric, but also to deal with the transformation of this fabric into modern and contemporary urban entities. Salma Khadra Jayyusi was awarded Cultural Personality of the Year by the Sheikh Zayed Book Award for her profound contribution to Arabic literature and culture in 2020. The paperback edition of The City in the Islamic World was published to celebrate the occasion.
Islamic Empires
Author | : Justin Marozzi |
Publsiher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2019-08-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780241199053 |
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'Outstanding, illuminating, compelling ... a riveting read' Peter Frankopan, Sunday Times Islamic civilization was once the envy of the world. From a succession of glittering, cosmopolitan capitals, Islamic empires lorded it over the Middle East, North Africa, Central Asia and swathes of the Indian subcontinent. For centuries the caliphate was both ascendant on the battlefield and triumphant in the battle of ideas, its cities unrivalled powerhouses of artistic grandeur, commercial power, spiritual sanctity and forward-looking thinking. Islamic Empires is a history of this rich and diverse civilization told through its greatest cities over fifteen centuries, from the beginnings of Islam in Mecca in the seventh century to the astonishing rise of Doha in the twenty-first. It dwells on the most remarkable dynasties ever to lead the Muslim world - the Abbasids of Baghdad, the Umayyads of Damascus and Cordoba, the Merinids of Fez, the Ottomans of Istanbul, the Mughals of India and the Safavids of Isfahan - and some of the most charismatic leaders in Muslim history, from Saladin in Cairo and mighty Tamerlane of Samarkand to the poet-prince Babur in his mountain kingdom of Kabul and the irrepressible Maktoum dynasty of Dubai. It focuses on these fifteen cities at some of the defining moments in Islamic history: from the Prophet Mohammed receiving his divine revelations in Mecca and the First Crusade of 1099 to the conquest of Constantinople in 1453 and the phenomenal creation of the merchant republic of Beirut in the nineteenth century.
Capital Cities of Arab Islam
Author | : Philip Khuri Hitti |
Publsiher | : U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | : 185 |
Release | : 1973-01-01 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 9781452909592 |
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Cities in the Pre Modern Islamic World
Author | : Amira K. Bennison,Alison L. Gascoigne |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2007-08-07 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9781134096497 |
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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 inter-related perspectives: the genesis of ‘Islamic cities’ in fact and fiction; the impact of Muslim rulers upon urban planning and development; and the degree to which a religious ethos affected the provision of public services. Chronologically and geographically wide-ranging, the volume examines thought-provoking case studies from seventh-century Syria to seventeenth-century Mughal India by established and new scholars in the field, in addition to chapters on urban sites in Spain, Morocco, Egypt and Central Asia. Cities in the Pre-Modern Islamic World will be of considerable interest to academics and students working on the archaeology, history and urbanism of the Middle East as well as those with more general interests in urban archaeology and urbanism.
Urban Form in the Arab World
Author | : Stefano Bianca |
Publsiher | : vdf Hochschulverlag AG |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 3728119725 |
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Urban Development in Historic and Modern Islamic Cities
Author | : Ayyub Malik |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 20 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : City planning |
ISBN | : UOM:39015050580698 |
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Islamic Cities and Conservation
Author | : Jim Antoniou |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 118 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Architecture, Islamic |
ISBN | : UCAL:B4324217 |
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