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The Great Mosque of Damascus: Studies in the Makings of an Umayyad Visual Culture (Islamic History and Civilization: Studies and Texts)

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 | #5189403 in Books |  2001-12-31 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.60 x1.25 x6.54l,2.10 | File type: PDF | 330 pages

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| The Great Mosque of Damascus|By W. W. Clark|Flood's book is THE standard book on this, one of the only remaining examples of Ummayid religious architecture and practically the only intact mosque from the formative years of Islam. The only way it could be improved would be to have a large portfolio of color illustrations of the mosaic decoration, the work of Byzantine artists b| |'..".a compelling account...a book that will be read with profit by all those concerned with the material culture of the Early Islamic and Byzantine worlds.'|Marcus Milwright, "Journal of Islamic Studies.|'..".this is a superbly informed, enthusiastically writ

A detailed and well-illustrated study of the history, architecture and symbolism of the early 8th-century mosque. The heavily annotated text includes analyses of the mosque's mosaic, interior decoration, clock and colonnade and broader discussions of the ambiguous meaning of the mosque's decorations, the topography of early medieval cities and the visual culture of Muslim architecture.

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