Main entry:

Flood, Finbarr Barry.

Title & Author:

The Great Mosque of Damascus : studies on the makings of an Umayyad visual culture / by Finbarr Barry Flood.

Publication:

Leiden : Brill, 2001.

Description:

xx, 330 pages, 66 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

Series:

Islamic history and civilization. Studies and texts ; v. 33

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-318) and indexes.
1. Introduction -- 2. Heavenly cities and hanging lamps: ambiguity and meaning in the courtyard mosaics -- 3. The decoration of the prayer-hall: the karma and its antecedents -- 4. The Bab Jayrun clock and the migration of the 'Bab al-Sa'a' -- 5. Topography and intertextuality in Umayyad Damascus -- 6. Damascus and the makings of an Umayyad visual culture -- 7. Epilogue -- Appendix: The lost inscriptions of the Umayyad Mosque.

ISBN:

9004116389 (hbk.)
9789004116382 (hbk.)

Subject:

Jāmiʻ al-Umawī al-Kabīr (Damascus, Syria)
J*amiʻ al-Umawī al-Kabīr(Damas, Syrie)
Architecture, Medieval Syria Damascus.
Islamic architecture Syria Damascus.
Architecture médiévale Syrie Damas.
Architecture islamique Syrie Damas.
Architecture, Medieval.
Buildings.
Islamic architecture.
Moskeeën.
Omajjaden.
Damascus (Syria) Buildings, structures, etc.
Damas (Syrie) Constructions.
Syria Damascus.
Große Moschee Damaskus
Damaskus Große Moschee.

Added entries:

Islamic history and civilization ; v. 33.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 214947
Call No.: NA5989.7.D34 F5 2001
Status: Available