Pruitt, Jennifer, author.

Building the caliphate : construction, destruction, and sectarian identity in early Fatimid architecture / Jennifer A. Pruitt.

New Haven : Yale University Press, [2020]

xi, 204 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), map ; 26 cm

"This groundbreaking study investigates the early architecture of the Fatimids, an Ismaili Shi'i Muslim dynasty that dominated the Mediterranean world from the 10th to the 12th century. This period, considered a golden age of multicultural and interfaith tolerance, witnessed the construction of iconic structures, including Cairo's al-Azhar and al-Hakim mosques and crucial renovations to Jerusalem's Dome of the Rock and Aqsa Mosque. However, it also featured large-scale destruction of churches under the notorious reign of al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, most notably the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem. Jennifer A. Pruitt offers a new interpretation of these and other key moments in the history of Islamic architecture, using newly available medieval primary sources by Ismaili writers and rarely considered Arabic Christian sources. Building the Caliphate contextualizes early Fatimid architecture within the wider Mediterranean and Islamic world and demonstrates how rulers manipulated architectural form and urban topographies to express political legitimacy on a global stage."-- Publisher website

030024682X (hardcover)
9780300246827 (hardcover)

Fatimiden.
Fatimiden 909-1171
Architecture, Fatimid.
Islamic architecture.
Fatimites History.
Architecture fātimide.
Architecture islamique.
Fātimides Histoire.
Islamische Architektur.
Fatimites
Architektur
Islamic architecture History.
Africa, North History 647-1517.
Afrique du Nord Histoire 647-1517.
North Africa.
Mittelmeerraum.
Islamic Empire.

History

Location: Library main 308098
Call No.: BIB 253542
Status: Available