Building the Caliphate: Construction, Destruction, and Sectarian Identity in Early Fatimid Architecture
by Pruitt, Jennifer A
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- 9780300246827
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New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2020. Cloth, xi, 204 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour), maps; 26 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "A riveting exploration of how the Fatimid dynasty carefully orchestrated an architectural program that proclaimed their legitimacy. This groundbreaking study investigates the early architecture of the Fatimids, an Ismaili Shi'i Muslim dynasty that dominated the Mediterranean world from the 10th to the 12th century. This period, considered a golden age of multicultural and interfaith tolerance, witnessed the construction of iconic structures, including Cairo's al-Azhar and al-Hakim mosques and crucial renovations to Jerusalem's Dome of the Rock and Aqsa Mosque. However, it also featured large-scale destruction of churches under the notorious reign of al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, most notably the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem. Jennifer A. Pruitt offers a new interpretation of these and other key moments in the history of Islamic architecture, using newly available medieval primary sources by Ismaili writers and rarely considered Arabic Christian sources. Building the Caliphate contextualizes early Fatimid architecture within the wider Mediterranean and Islamic world and demonstrates how rulers manipulated architectural form and urban topographies to express political legitimacy on a global stage." - Publisher. CONTENTS: The city illluminated; A contested peace for the churches; Al-Hakim's esoteric urbanism; Construction, destruction, and concealment under the "Mad Caliph"; Rebuilding the Fatimid city.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to. Collectible.
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- Title
- Building the Caliphate: Construction, Destruction, and Sectarian Identity in Early Fatimid Architecture
- Author
- Pruitt, Jennifer A
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 030024682X
- ISBN 13
- 9780300246827
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Place of Publication
- New Haven, CT
- Date Published
- 2020
- Size
- 4to
- Keywords
- COLLECTIBLE
- Bookseller catalogs
- XXX / COLLECTIBLES; Architecture / Religious Buildings; Middle Eastern / Arabic & Persian; Genre & Subject / Religious / Islamic;
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