Main entry:

Prochazka, Amjad Bohumil.

Title & Author:

Determinants of Islamic architecture / Amjad Bohumil Prochazka.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

Zurich, Switzerland : Muslim Architecture Research Program, 1988.

Description:

167 pages : illustrations, plans ; 27 cm

Series:

Architecture of the Islamic cultural sphere ; 1b

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (page 158) and index.
Definition of the concept -- Constructional systems -- Style of Islamic architecture -- Periodisation of Islamic architecture -- The world of the early Middle Ages -- Evolution of styles -- Remarks on the origins of architectural shapes -- Islám and visual arts -- Arab architecture before Islám -- The cultural influence of older and neighboring civilizations -- Byzantine architecture -- Some important pre-Islamic structures on the territory of the caliphate -- Armenian and Georgian architecture -- Sásánid Persia -- Mesopotamian building art -- Indian architecture -- The architecture of Turkistán -- Berber architecture -- Visigothic Spain -- Sources of Islamic architecture -- Architecture of the nomads -- Evolution of nomadic dwellings -- Architecture and problems of provenance -- Changes in the world of Islám -- Why the study of Islamic architecture has not fully developed -- The meaning of Islamic architecture -- Negative influences on the development of Islamic monumentology -- Islamic architecture and the Arabs -- Islamic architecture and the Turks -- Islamic architecture and the Jews -- Islamic archtecture and Creswellism -- Islamic architecture and orientalists -- Islamic architecture and architects -- Islamic architecture and atheism -- Islamic archtecture in danger.

ISBN:

390699502X
9783906995021

Subject:

Islamic architecture.
Architecture islamique.
Islamische Architektur

Added entries:

MARP (Organization)
Architecture of the Islamic cultural sphere ; 1b.

Mumayyizāt al-fan al-miʻmārī al-Islāmī

Holdings:

Location: Library main 30360
Call No.: ID:88-B2364
Status: Available