The Minaret

ISBN-13: 9780748637256 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 416 str.

Jonathan M Bloom

Opis

A lavishly illustrated history of this iconic element of Islamic architecture. 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. Drawing on buildings, archaeological reports, medieval histories, geographies and early Arabic poetry, Bloom reinterprets the origin, development and meanings of the minaret. 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.

Spis treści

List of Figures; Series Editor’s Foreword; Preface; Map; INTRODUCTION; PART I: CHAPTER 1 The History of Scholarship and the Nature of the Problem, CHAPTER 2 The Adhan, the Mi’dhana and the Sawma‘a, CHAPTER 3 Man?rs and Man?ras, CHAPTER 4 The Mosque Tower, CHAPTER 5 Why Were Towers Added to Mosques?; PART II: CHAPTER 6 The Minaret in the Maghrib in the Ninth Century, CHAPTER 7 The Triumph of the Cordoban Minaret in the Maghrib, CHAPTER 8 The Minaret in Egypt through the Ayyubid Period, CHAPTER 9 The Minaret in the Eastern Islamic Lands before the Seljuqs, CHAPTER 10 The Seljuq Minaret; PART III: CHAPTER 11 The Minaret after the Mongol Conquest, CHAPTER 12 The Minaret Beyond the Persianate World, CHAPTER 13 The Minaret in the Modern World; Bibliography; Illustration Acknowledgments; Index