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Paperback. Condition: New.

Festeinband. Condition: Wie neu. 158 Seiten, 56 ungezählte Seiten : Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten ; 31 cm Tadelloses Exemplar. Like new.- Acknowledgements - List of Common Abbreviations - Note on Dates, Transliterations, and Translations - Introduction: The Problem of Impermanence - Early Abbasid palaces and the Dar al-Khilafa of Samarra as a case study - Research on Samarra's palaces since the first recorded excavations - Architecture and audience - Approach and outline - Grandeur and Impermanence: The Construction of Samarra and Other Palace Complexes - in the Early Abbasid Period - Samarra's rise and fall as the Abbasid imperial residence - Impermanence in early Abbasid palaces - Impediments to permanence: Geography and politics - The theme of architectural impermanence in Abbasid literature - Historical consciousness and the relevance of a lasting legacy - Glorious impermanence - A Place Set Apart: Building with Open Space in Abbasid Palace Exteriors - The difficulties of Samarra's Bab al-'Amma - The use of open space in Abbasid palace plans - Exterior zones and Abbasidceremonial - Palace as harlm - The phenomenology of open space - An Architecture of Temporary Events: The Adornment of the Audience Hall Complex in Samarra's - Dar al-Khilafa - A note on sources - The plan of the Audience Hall Complex - Wall ornament found in situ: Orderly arrangements from varied sources - Detached architectural fragments: A case of selective opulence? - The architectural surface and the Abbasid audience - The architecture of events - An Ever-Changing Surface: Impermanence and Ornament in Abbasid Palaces - Varied vegetation: Aesthetic flexibility in the ornament of Abbasid palaces - Aesthetic rigidity in the ornament of Abbasid mosques? - Mutable configurations: Reuse in Samarra's palaces and beyond - Ornament, impermanence, and the elusive nature of "Abbasid style" - An Enduring Trace: Palaces, Poetry, and the Literary Canon - Architectural and verbal monuments - The Samarra palace poems as exemplary "modem" works - Abbasid palaces as timeless Arab architecture - Poetic truths - The afterlife of the Samarra palace poems - Conclusion: The Concept of an "Impermanent Monument" and Its Legacy - Other early Islamic palatine traditions and their relationship to time - Contrasting temporalities in Islamic architecture and beyond - Appendix I: Select Transcriptions from Herzfeld's Second Campaign Diary - Appendix II: Partial Inventory of Fragments of Architectural Ornament and Furnishings Attributable - to the Dar al-Khilafa of Samarra - Note on organization of inventory - Note on content of records - Links to related online resources - Inventory by Findspot Area - Bibliography - Index - Credits for photographs illustrated in figures - Figures. ISBN 9783954905195 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 16556.

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Buch. Condition: Neu. Impermanent Monuments, Lasting Legacies: The Dar al-Khilafa of Samarra and Palace Building in Early Abbasid Iraq | Matthew Saba | Buch | Englisch | 2022 | Reichert | EAN 9783954905195 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Heil, Margaret, Margaret Heil, Reichert, Anne-Frank-Str. 11, 63762 Großostheim, margret-heil[at]gmx[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu.

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