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Islamic Architecture : Form, Function and Meaning, PDF eBook

Islamic Architecture : Form, Function and Meaning PDF

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Winner of the American Publishers Association's Award for an outstanding Professional and Scholarly title and the Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion 1996 from the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain.

In a dazzling display of erudition, Robert Hillenbrand surveys the major building-types of the Islamic World: religious architecture (the mosque, the minaret, the madrasa), the mausoleum 'between Heaven and Earth', and the caravansarai and the palace representing the secular side.

All the building-types are discussed in art-historical terms, with the interplay of form and function taken as the underlying theme of the analysis. All are comprehensively illustrated with a full range of colour and black-and-white photographs, analytical drawings, thumbnail comparative assemblies and ground plans.

This major reference work, covering from Spain to Afghanistan and c. 700 to c. 1700, is a source of fascination for all seeking to appreciate the rich heritage of the Islamic World. Recurrent themes and patterns take on a wider significance - a persistent reminder that the Islamic faith and the particular type of society which it engendered makes light of vast gulfs of time and space.

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  • 24 colour plates
  • 300 black-and-white photographs
  • 1246 line drawings
  • Section of composite drawings and ground plans

Available in Hardback (originally published in 1994) and a revised paperback edition published in 2000.

This new paperback edition includes a previously unpublished index, designed to make the book more user-friendly.

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