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Studies in Arabian architecture / Paolo M. Costa.
Main entry:

Costa, Paolo, 1932-

Title & Author:

Studies in Arabian architecture / Paolo M. Costa.

Publication:

Aldershot [England] ; Brookfield, Vt. : Variorum, 1994.

Description:

1 volume (various pagings) : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Series:

Collected studies series ; CS455

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface; Islamic shrines on the Sat al-Nil; The Great Mosque of San'a'; The Mosque of al-Janad; Problems of style and iconography in South-Arabian sculpture; Patterns of urban settlement in ancient Arabia; Notes on settlement patterns in traditional Oman; Notes on traditional hydraulics and agriculture in Oman; The architecture of Salalah and the Dhofar Littoral; Historical interpretation of the territory of Muscat; Index.
Also issued online.
Summary:

Nine papers, originally published 1971-92, discuss general themes, specific manifestations, and and regional styles of architecture from the second century B.C. into the later Islamic period of the Middle East. Many of the buildings described are now either destroyed or restored so fancifully as to be totally misrepresentative. Mosques and shrines,

ISBN:

0860784363 (alk. paper)
9780860784364 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Islamic architecture Arabian Peninsula.
Architecture islamique Arabie (Péninsule)
Islamic architecture.
Araber
Architektur
Geschichte
Islamische Architektur
Aufsatzsammlung
Architecture islamique Arabie.
Arabian Peninsula.
Arabie (Péninsule)
Arabien Süd
Arabien
Arabie.
Architecture

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.
Essays.

Added entries:

Collected studies ; CS455.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 93164
Call No.: ID DS202.C67; ID:95-B913
Status: Available

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