The Minaret

ISBN-13: 9781474437226 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 416 str.

Jonathan M. Bloom

Opis

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