Studies in Persian architecture

Media type: E-Book

Title: Studies in Persian architecture

Contains: Frontmatter
Contents
List of Figures
Preface
CHAPTER 1 Architecture in the Interregnum: The Mozaffarid, Jalayerid and Kartid Contributions
CHAPTER 2 From Atelier Floor to Monument Wall: How were Tiles Placed Correctly?
CHAPTER 3 Arthur Upham Pope and the Study of Persian Islamic Architecture
CHAPTER 4 Review of Kishwar Rizvi, The Safavid Dynastic Shrine: Architecture, Religion and Power in Early Modern Iran
CHAPTER 5 Tiles of Many Hues: The Development of Iranian Cuerda Seca Tiles and the Transfer of Tilework Technology
CHAPTER 6 Chaghatai Architecture and the Tomb of Tughluq Temür at Almaliq
CHAPTER 7 The Timurid Bazar and the Origin of the Domed Tim
CHAPTER 8 Review of Raya Shani, A Monumental Manifestation of the ShÈʿite Faith in Late Twelfth-Century Iran: The Case of the Gunbad-i ‘Alawiyån, Hamadån
CHAPTER 9 The Uzbek Architecture of Afghanistan
CHAPTER 10 The Gunbad-i Jabaliyya at Kirman and the Development of the Domed Octagon in Iran
CHAPTER 11 Iran and Central Asia
CHAPTER 12 The Minaret of Våbkent
CHAPTER 13 Čahår†åq, Islamic Period
CHAPTER 14 Domes
CHAPTER 15 From Tents to Pavilions: Royal Mobility and Persian Palace Design
CHAPTER 16 Poetry, Geometry and the Arabesque: Notes on Timurid Aesthetics
CHAPTER 17 Na†anz and Turbat-i Jåm: New Light on Fourteenth-century Iranian Stucco
CHAPTER 18 The Tiled Minbars of Iran
CHAPTER 19 The Tomb of Mu˙ammad ≈åzÈ at FËšanÌ
CHAPTER 20 SalÌËq Minarets: Some New Data
CHAPTER 21 Timurid Stucco Decoration
CHAPTER 22 The Friday Mosques of Asna˚ and Saråvar
CHAPTER 23 Tåybåd, Turbat-i Jåm and Timurid Vaulting
CHAPTER 24 The Imåmzåda Óusain Ri∂å at VaråmÈn
CHAPTER 25 The Madrasa al-GhiyåsÈyya at Khargird
CHAPTER 26 Taj al-Din ʿAlishah: The Reconstruction of his Mosque Complex at Tabriz
Index

Contributor: O'Kane, Bernard [Author]

Published: Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, [2022]

Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (xxii, 636 Seiten); Illustrationen

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9781474474870

ISBN: 9781474474870; 9781474474863

Identifier:

RVK notation: LO 87900 : Architektur und Städtebau
ZH 4960 : Asien, Orient, Östliche Welt

Keywords: Islamische Architektur
Iran > Architektur

Origination:

Footnote: In English

Description: Curates a selection of key articles by Bernard O’Kane that combine analyses of Persian monuments with overviews of the central elements of Iranian architectureStudies monuments and architecture from the Greater Persian world, from the borders of Iraq to those of ChinaSituates the monuments within their social and political contextsIncludes important buildings from previously under-studied periodsIncludes over 300 photographs, many published in colour for the first timeThis lavishly illustrated volume – with many images previously unpublished in colour – collects 25 articles by Bernard O’Kane on a wide variety of topics pertaining to Persian architecture in its widest sense. His analyses range from historiography and tilework to the development of the domes of Iranian mosques. He covers the buildings of the major medieval dynasties – the Seljuqs, Ilkhanids and Timurids – as well as the formerly neglected monuments of the Chaghatai, Muzaffarid, Kartid and Jalayirid dynasties and Uzbek monuments in Afghanistan

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