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Umayyad Mosque of Damascus
Art, Faith and Empire in Early Islam
Av Alain George, Melanie Gibson
Inbunden, 2021
888 kr
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The Great Mosque of Damascus is an iconic monument of world architecture, and the oldest mosque still standing in something close to its original state. This book is the first in-depth study of its foundation by the Umayyad dynasty, just as the first Islamic century was drawing to a close. Towards …
Power, Patronage, and Memory in Early Islam
Av GEORGE, Alain George m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
2375 kr
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When the Umayyads, the first Islamic dynasty, rose to power shortly after the death of the Prophet Muhammad (d. 632), the polity of which they assumed control had only recently expanded out of Arabia into the Roman eastern Mediterranean, Iraq and Iran. A century later, by the time of their downfall …
Power, Patronage, and Memory in Early Islam
Perspectives on Umayyad Elites
Av Andrew Marsham, Alain George
E-bok, 2017
1613 kr
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When the Umayyads, the first Islamic dynasty, rose to power shortly after the death of the Prophet Muhammad (d. 632), the polity of which they assumed control had only recently expanded out of Arabia into the Roman eastern Mediterranean, Iraq and Iran. A century later, by the time of their downfall …
Power, Patronage, and Memory in Early Islam
Perspectives on Umayyad Elites
Av Andrew Marsham, Alain George
E-bok, 2017
1613 kr
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When the Umayyads, the first Islamic dynasty, rose to power shortly after the death of the Prophet Muhammad (d. 632), the polity of which they assumed control had only recently expanded out of Arabia into the Roman eastern Mediterranean, Iraq and Iran. A century later, by the time of their downfall …
Rise of Islamic Calligraphy
Av Alain George
Inbunden, 2010
415 kr
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The birth of Qur'anic calligraphy was a major event in the early history of Islam. In a few decades, it raised the Arabs and their language from the remote fringes of the civilised world to its very heart. Alain George brings together manuscript, mosaic, architecture and text to reveal the …
