Studies in Arab Architecture

by Bernard O'Kane

Overview

This lavishly illustrated volume – with many images previously unpublished in colour – collects 18 articles by Bernard O’Kane on a wide variety of topics in Arab architecture. The essays range from from Morocco to India, and from the earliest periods of Islam to the present day. He concentrates on monuments in Egypt and Syria, analysing topics such as the borrowings between domestic and religious architecture, studies of individual buildings and mutual influences between Iran and Egypt.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781474474887
Publisher:	Edinburgh University Press
Publication date:	11/01/2021
Series:	Collected Papers in Islamic Art
Pages:	560
Product dimensions:	6.69(w) x 9.61(h) x (d)

About the Author

Bernard O’Kane is Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture at the American Universityin Cairo. He is the author of Timurid Architecture in Khurasan (1987), Studies in Persian Art and Architecture (1996) and Early Persian Painting (2003); and the editor of Treasures of Islamic Art in the Museums of Cairo (2006).

Table of Contents

1. Mughal Tilework: Derivative or Original?; 2. Architecture and Court Cultures of the 14th Century; 3. The Mausoleum of Yayha al-Shabih Revisited, with Bahia Shehab; 4. Introduction in The Mosques of Egypt; 5. Residential Architecture of the Darb Zubayda; 6. The Design of Cairo’s Masonry Domes; 7. James Wild and the Mosque of Bashtak; 8. The Great Mosque of Hama Redux; 9. Ayyubid Architecture in Cairo; 10. The Nine-Bay Plan in Islamic Architecture: Its Origin, Development and Meaning; 11. The Arboreal Aesthetic: Landscape, Painting and Architecture from Mongol Iran to Mamluk Egypt; 12. Domestic and Religious Architecture in Cairo: Mutual Influences; 13. The Ziyāda of the Mosque of al-Ḥākim and the Development of the Ziyāda in Islamic Architecture; 14. The Mosque; 15. Monumentality in Mamluk and Mongol Art and Architecture; 16. The Madrasa of Badr al-Dīn al-‘Aynī and Its Tiled Miḥrāb, with Laila Ibrahim; 17. The Rise of the Minaret; 18. Review of M. Burgoyne, D.S. Richards, Mamluk Jerusalem: An Architectural Study.