Constructions of power and piety in medieval Aleppo / Yasser Tabbaa.

Main entry:

Tabbaa, Yasser, 1948-

Title & Author:

Constructions of power and piety in medieval Aleppo / Yasser Tabbaa.

Publication:

Description:

xix, 208 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-205) and index.
Part I. Contexts. The city: Aleppo under the Ayyubids -- Society and patronage -- Part II. Constructions of power. Citadel, city, and ceremonial -- The palace: forms and meanings -- Part III. Constructions of piety. The mosque: diminishing importance -- The shrine and popular piety -- Propaganda and education in the Ayyubid Madrasa -- The impact of mysticism.

Summary:

In the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, the Ayyubid dynasty brought unprecedented architectural development to Aleppo, the most important city in medieval Syria. While early Islamic empires usually expressed their grandeur by founding new cities with vast extra-urban palaces, the Ayyubids asserted their power by "modernizing" existing towns
With its large, well-preserved citadel and a wide variety of pious institutions, Aleppo is the ideal subject for Yasser Tabbaa's study of the pan-Islamic transformation in urban architecture.
Tabbaa argues that the intense palatial and religious architectural activity of the period was intended to create a royal image of the Ayyubid state while also fostering links between it and the urban population. His study is based on an entirely new evaluation of the architectural and epigraphic aspects of the standing monuments of the period.
It presents for the first time full photographic coverage of these monuments, as well as many new plans and other renderings, and pays close attention to monumental inscriptions, correcting and augmenting previous studies. The book utilizes the full panoply of the available literary sources, including topographies, chronicles, travel accounts, and poetry.

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Table of contents

ISBN:

0271015624 (alk. paper)
9780271015620 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Ayyubides (dynastie) mécénat.
Architecture, Ayyubid Syria Aleppo.
Islamic architecture Syria Aleppo.
Architecture and state Syria Aleppo.
Architecture ayy*ubide Syrie Alep.
Architecture islamique Syrie Alep.
Architecture Politique gouvernementale Syrie Alep.
Architecture ayyūbide Syrie Alep.
Architecture and state
Architecture, Ayyubid
Buildings
Islamic architecture
Architektur
Geschichte
Islam
Islamische Architektur
Staat
Frömmigkeit
Bouwkunst.
Architecture Syria Aleppo.
Architecture et État Syrie Alep.
Madrasa Syrie Alep (Syrie)
Aleppo (Syria) Buildings, structures, etc.
Alep (Syrie) Constructions.
Syria Aleppo
Aleppo
Alep (Syrie) Moyen âge.
Geschichte 1100-1300

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Location: Library main 192494
Call No.: ID NA1489.7.A43.T23; ID:97-B3584
Status: Available

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