The Spread of Islam

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About the series-
The Making of the Past
The Mitkiiig of the Past is a new series designed to provide a complete survey of the early history of the world as revealed by archaeology and related disciplines. Its subject is a new history, the making of a new past, freshly uncovered and reconstructed in recent years by skilled specialists. Beautifully illustrated with photographs, many in full colour, and with maps, diagrams and line drawings including reconstructions, the series will be completely authoritative and up-to-date, while losing nothing of the excitement of recent discoveries about the ancicnt past.
About this volume
The Spreac of Islam
Michael Rogers
J35 illustrations, 104 in colour
Here is a comprehensive study of the early history and architecture of Islam. Its range is from Islam's origin in the 7th century ad to the year 1500, when Muslim occupation of Spain had ended and the Ottomans were laying the foundarions for an empire in the Near East.
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Fülszöveg

About the series-
The Making of the Past
The Mitkiiig of the Past is a new series designed to provide a complete survey of the early history of the world as revealed by archaeology and related disciplines. Its subject is a new history, the making of a new past, freshly uncovered and reconstructed in recent years by skilled specialists. Beautifully illustrated with photographs, many in full colour, and with maps, diagrams and line drawings including reconstructions, the series will be completely authoritative and up-to-date, while losing nothing of the excitement of recent discoveries about the ancicnt past.
About this volume
The Spreac of Islam
Michael Rogers
J35 illustrations, 104 in colour
Here is a comprehensive study of the early history and architecture of Islam. Its range is from Islam's origin in the 7th century ad to the year 1500, when Muslim occupation of Spain had ended and the Ottomans were laying the foundarions for an empire in the Near East.
After an introductory account of European travellers and their reacrion to the sites of Islam, the author devotes one chapter to a rapid survey of the historical development of Islam, thus paving the way for more detailed discussion of the surviving monuments. Using architectural history as a framework, he builds up a picture of the secular and religious life of the medieval Muslim and concludes with descriptions of palaces, shrines and mausolea - the grandest manifestations of Islam - notably the Alhambra, the Dome of the Rock and Mecca.
Four visual stories portray in pictures Tamerlane's capital at Samarkand, the Citadel of Aleppo, the art of Islamic calligraphy and the Mosque of Sultan yasan in Cairo. The book is illustrated throughout with numerous photographs (most of them in colour), maps and diagrams. Vissza