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Finbarr Flood

The Great Mosque of Damascus: Studies on the Makings of an Umayyad Visual Culture

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The celebrated Great Mosque of Damascus was built in the early eighth century by the Umayyad caliph al-Wal?d b. 'Abd al-Malik. This book provides a detailed study of this Mosque. Using textual, visual, and archaeological evidence, the author attempts to reconstruct some of the basic formal and decorative features of the Umayyad mosque, to locate it within its broader urban context, and to consider its role within al-Wal?d's unprecedented programme of architectural patronage. The work explores the intracultural and intercultural functions of religious architecture within an official visual discourse intended to project a distinctive Muslim ide… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-90-04-11638-2
  • EAN: 9789004116382
  • Produktnummer: 1724453
  • Verlag: Brill Academic Pub
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2000
  • Seitenangabe: 332 S.
  • Masse: H24.4 cm x B16.6 cm x D3.2 cm 948 g
  • Reihenbandnummer: 33
  • Gewicht: 948

Über den Autor


Finbarr Barry Flood, Ph.D. (1993) in Art History, Edinburgh University, is an Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, Washington, D.C. He has published numerous articles on early Buddhist and Islamic art.

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