The City in the Islamic World - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 9004162402 ISBN 13: 9789004162402

Casa editrice: Brill Academic Pub, 2008

Riassunto

The purpose of this book, is to draw attention to the sites of life, politics and culture where current and past generations of the Islamic world have made their mark. Unlike many previous volumes dealing with the city in the Islamic world, this one has been specially expanded not only to include snapshots of historical fabric but also to deal with the transformation of this fabric into modern and contemporary urban entities.

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L'autore:

Salma Jayyusi, (Ph.D. University of London), is a poet, critic and anthologist. She edited the widely appraised The Legacy of Muslim Spain (Leiden, 1992)
Renata Holod is professor of Islamic Art, Architecture, and Archaeology at the University of Pennsylvania, and author of publications on contemporary as well as historic buildings, sites and territories.
Attilio Petruccioli, is Chief Editor of Environmental Design, and author of numerous publications on urban architecture, Islamic architecture, and the methodology of design. He is dean of the School of Architecture at the Polytechnical University of Bari.
André Raymond, Agrégé in history (1947), D.Phil (oxon)(1954) , Docteur d'Etat (Sorbonne, 1972), is currently emeritus professor at the University of Provence. He published a number of books and studies about the great Arab cities in the Ottoman period (mainly on Cairo, Aleppo, Tunis).

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• Editore: Brill Academic Pub
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 9004162402
• ISBN 13: 9789004162402
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 1494
• Redattore: Jayyusi Salma Khadra, Holod Renata, Petruccioli Attilio, Raymond Andre