|
books
| book details |
Sacred Precincts: The Religious Architecture of Non-Muslim Communities Across the Islamic World
Edited by Mohammad Gharipour
|
| on special |
normal price: R 3 471.95
Price: R 3 298.95
|
| book description |
This book examines non-Muslim religious sites, structures and spaces in the Islamic world. It reveals a vibrant portrait of life in the religious sites by illustrating how architecture responds to contextual issues and traditions. Sacred Precincts explores urban context; issues of identity; design; construction; transformation and the history of sacred sites and architecture in Europe, the Middle East and Africa from the advent of Islam to the 20th century. It includes case studies on churches and synagogues in Iran, Turkey, Cyprus, Egypt, Iraq, Tunisia, Morocco and Malta, and on sacred sites in Nigeria, Mali, and the Gambia. With contributions by Clara Alvarez, Angela Andersen, Karen Britt, Karla Britton, Jorge Manuel Simão Alves Correia, Elvan Cobb, Daniel Coslett, Mohammad Gharipour, Mattia Guidetti, Suna Güven, Esther Kühn, Amy Landau, Ayla Lepine, Theo Maarten van Lint, David Mallia, Erin Maglaque, Susan Miller, A.A. Muhammad-Oumar, Meltem Özkan Altınöz, Jennifer Pruitt, Rafael Sedighpour, Ann Shafer, Jorge Manuel Simão Alves Correia, Ebru Özeke Tökmeci, Steven Thomson, Heghnar Watenpaugh, Alyson Wharton and Ethel S. Wolper.
| product details |

Normally shipped |
Publisher | Brill
Published date | 4 Jul 2023
Language |
Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 116
Dimensions | 235 x 155 x 27mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 1483g
ISBN | 978-9-0045-4724-7
Readership Age |
BISAC | architecture / religious buildings
| other options |
|
|
|
To view the items in your trolley please sign in.
| sign in |
|
|
| specials |
|
Look around you is anything real or normal any more? News, images and videos created by AI are everywhere.
|
|
|
This first comprehensive biography of Cecil Rhodes in a generation illuminates Rhodes’s vision for the expansion of imperialism in southern Africa, connecting politics and industry to internal development, and examines how this fueled a lasting, white-dominated colonial society.
|
|
|
|