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Islamic Architecture Through Western Eyes: Syria, Egypt and North Africa: Volume 2

Islamic Architecture Through Western Eyes: Syria, Egypt and North Africa: Volume 2

Greenhalgh, Michael

Hardcover

Art HistoryGeneral Asian HistoryGeneral Architecture

ISBN10: 9004540865
ISBN13: 9789004540866
Publisher: Brill
Published: Jan 17 2024
Pages: 414
Weight: 1.69
Height: 0.94 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
This volume, the second of three, offers an anthology of Western descriptions of Islamic religious buildings in Syria, Egypt and North Africa, mostly from the seventeenth to early twentieth centuries, taken from travel books and ambassadorial reports. (The third volume will deal with Islamic palaces around the Mediterranean.) As travel became easier and cheaper, thanks to better roads, steamships, hotels and railways, tourist numbers increased, museums accumulated eastern treasures, illustrated journals proliferated, and photography provided accurate data. All three deal with the impact of Western trade, taste and imports on the East, and examine the encroachment of westernised modernism.

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