Palace Gardens in Lower Mesopotamia

8th to 11th Centuries

AvSafa Mahmoudian

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

Del i serien Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Art

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Beskrivning

Gardens were both a setting and showcase for nearly every aspect of social and daily life at the royal court during the early Islamic period in Western Asia. Safa Mahmoudian uses ?a wide range of ?primary source materials including ??contemporary ??Arabic manuscripts, together with archaeological ?reports, aerial ?photographs, and archaeologists' letters ?and diaries.? ?Through close readings of this evidence, Mahmoudian creates a picture of these gardens in their historical, architectural and environmental contexts and examines various factors that influenced their design and placement. In doing so, Mahmoudian adds to our understanding of these gardens and palaces and, ultimately, early Islamic-period court culture as a whole.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2024-10-31
Mått:170 x 244 x 22 mm
Vikt:888 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Art
Antal sidor:288
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9781399524254

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Arkitekturhistoria inom Kultur

Mer om författaren

Safa Mahmoudian is a Senior Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Vienna, funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). She has previously held academic positions at the Khalili Research Centre at the University of Oxford, the Institute of Iranian Studies at the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the Department of Art History of the University of Vienna. Her earlier work explored the riverine landscape of a main water ‎‎‎canal‎ – ‎Fadan Mādī‎ – in seventeenth-century Isfahan from various angles, and her current research focuses on cross-cultural interactions between Khorasan and Lower Mesopotamia during the early Islamic period.

Recensioner i media

With this systematic interdisciplinary study, Safa Mahmoudian opens a new window on the magnificent gardens of a little-studied period of Islamic history. Her thorough insights contribute remarkably to our knowledge of these once lively gardens and our understanding of palace architecture of the Abbasid nobility and their court culture.

Innehållsförteckning

List of FiguresList of PlatesAcknowledgementsNote on Transliterations, Translations, Dates and MeasuresIntroduction1. Garden and River in the Land between Two Rivers2. Flora and Fauna3. Water Features4. Relationship between Throne Hall and Garden: ‎A Discussion Based on Bahw and Sidillī5. Gardens with Physical RemainsBibliographyIndex

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