The Minaret

Jonathan M. Bloom (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

416 Seiten

2018
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-3722-6 (ISBN)

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Tracing its origins and development, Bloom reveals that the Minaret, long understood to have been invented in the early years of Islam as the place from which the muezzin gives the call to prayer, was actually invented some two centuries later to be a visible symbol of Islam. From early Islam to the modern world, and from Iran, Egypt, Turkey and India to West and East Africa, the Yemen and Southeast Asia, this richly illustrated book is a sweeping tour of the minaret's position as the symbol of Islam.

Jonathan M. Bloom is the author, co-author, editor, or co-editor of fifteen books and hundreds of articles on all aspects of Islamic art and architecture, including the art of the Fatimid dynasty, and the history of paper. He and his wife and colleague Sheila Blair edited the prize-winning 3-volume Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture (2009) and organize the Hamad bin Khalifa Biennial Symposia on Islamic Art and Culture.

List of FiguresSeries Editor’s ForewordPrefaceMapINTRODUCTION

PART I:CHAPTER 1 The History of Scholarship and the Nature of the ProblemCHAPTER 2 The Adhan, the Mi’dhana and the Sawma‘aCHAPTER 3 Manārs and ManārasCHAPTER 4 The Mosque TowerCHAPTER 5 Why Were Towers Added to Mosques?

PART II: CHAPTER 6 The Minaret in the Maghrib in the Ninth CenturyCHAPTER 7 The Triumph of the Cordoban Minaret in the MaghribCHAPTER 8 The Minaret in Egypt through the Ayyubid PeriodCHAPTER 9 The Minaret in the Eastern Islamic Lands before the SeljuqsCHAPTER 10 The Seljuq Minaret

PART III: CHAPTER 11 The Minaret after the Mongol Conquest CHAPTER 12 The Minaret Beyond the Persianate WorldCHAPTER 13 The Minaret in the Modern World

BibliographyIllustration AcknowledgmentsIndex

Erscheinungsdatum	17.07.2018
Reihe/Serie	Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Art
Zusatzinfo	28 black and white illustrations, 200 colour illustrations
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	172 x 244 mm
Gewicht	850 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
	Technik ► Architektur
ISBN-10	1-4744-3722-2 / 1474437222
ISBN-13	978-1-4744-3722-6 / 9781474437226
Zustand	Neuware