Description
This lavishly illustrated volume - with many images previously unpublished in colour - collects 18 articles by Bernard O'Kane on a wide variety of topics in Arab architecture.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.
Author: Bernard O'Kane
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 11/01/2021
Pages: 560
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.75lbs
Size: 9.80h x 6.90w x 1.40d
ISBN13: 9781474474887
ISBN10: 1474474888
BISAC Categories:
- Architecture | History | Medieval
- Architecture | Reference
- Architecture | Buildings | Religious
About the Author
Bernard O'Kane is Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture at the American University in 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).