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Cities and Caliphs: On the Genesis of Arab Muslim Urbanism by Nezar Alsayyad
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- Condition
- Pages
- 208
- Publication Date
- 1991-05-30
- Subject
- Cities
- ISBN
- 9780313277917
- Publication Name
- Cities and Caliphs Vol. 26 : on the Genesis of Arab Muslim Urbanism
- Item Length
- 9.2in
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing USA
- Series
- Contributions to the Study of World History Ser.
- Publication Year
- 1991
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.6in
- Item Width
- 6.1in
- Item Weight
- 17 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 208 Pages
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The history of the Islamic world includes many unique cultural, religious, scientific, and architectural developments. Among these was the evolution of the Arab Muslim city, which occurred during the rapid expansion of the Muslim empire in the seventh and eighth centuries A.D. In this probing volume, Nezar AlSayyad examines the extraordinary characteristics of Islamic urbanism and the process by which cities and towns were absorbed and physically transformed by Islam. The early leaders of the Muslim empire--caliphs, amirs, and other rulers--had a lasting effect on what the modern scholar would call their cities' urban form. AlSayyad demonstrates that the stereotypical model of the Muslim city is inadequate, not only because individual rulers in regions of the empire were different, but also due to various cultural influences that were indigenous to conquered areas. After a prologue, the study begins with a historiography of the concept of the Muslim city and how it was paralleled by the development of its physical form. Garrison towns, established as military camps by early Arab conquerors, are examined next by AlSayyad. His research shows that building methods and urban form in the Arab cities were products of Islamization and consolidation of Caliphal power. New capital towns and cities, AlSayyad maintains, were also results of elaborate personal expressions of politico-religious authority by certain Muslim rulers. The book ends by suggesting that the Arabs' and their leaders' changing view of the role of architecture was a major factor behind the fluid urban forms of Muslim cities. This significant contribution to the study of the Arab world and its cultural history will be of great value to Middle East, urban, and architectural historians, anthropologists, and archaeologists, as well as to students of Islamic history and urbanism.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN-10
0313277915
ISBN-13
9780313277917
eBay Product ID (ePID)
106696
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Cities and Caliphs Vol. 26 : on the Genesis of Arab Muslim Urbanism
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Series
Contributions to the Study of World History Ser.
Publication Year
1991
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
208 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.2in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
6.1in
Item Weight
17 Oz
Additional Product Features
Series Volume Number
No. 26
Number of Volumes
1 Vol.
Lc Classification Number
Ht147
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"Overall, Cities and Caliphs is an excellent book: very well written and documented; insightful and stimulating; and original. My only regret is the book's brevity: given its quality, 158 pages of main text seemed all too short!" Historical Geography, "A synthesis built on a reading of the Arab chronicles, this book concerns the underlying order of Muslim cities. Al Sayyad attempts to explain the process by which cities of the Middle East became Islamic, and focuses particularly on the role of several caliphs in shaping the form of the Arab Muslim city. The book challenges conventional wisdom regarding urban form as derived simply from mosque, palace, citadel, bazaar, and separated residential quarters. It details how, in towns created or appropriated by Islam, form was associated with functional interconnection. The author, an architect and urban historian, takes a "thematic" approach, combining historical and geographical concerns in placing city form in its cultural context as a planned expression of symbolic political power. Muslim cities, in short, became manifestations of an iconographic relationship of physical elements and institutional structure. An important contribution to urban history and cultural studies. College, university, and public libraries." Choice
Table of Content
Preface Prologue: The Study of Muslim Urbanism and the Problem of the Muslim City The Typical Muslim City: A Historiography of a Concept Urban Creations of the Early Muslim Arabs: The Garrison Town as a Prototype Urban Transformation in Early Islam: Arabization or Islamization of Existing Cities Planned Capital Cities: Ideal Constructs or Imperial Palaces Epilogue: The Arab Muslim City and the Genesis of Urban Form: Religious Ideology Versus Caliphal Authority Notes Appendices Bibliography Index
Copyright Date
1991
Target Audience
College Audience
Topic
Islamic Studies, World, Middle East / General, Sociology / Urban
Lccn
90-019913
Dewey Decimal
307.76/0917/671
Dewey Edition
20
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
History, Social Science
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