Editorial: Brill
Colección: Arts and Archaeology of the Islamic World ; 20
Número de páginas: 180 págs.
Fecha de edición: 12-03-2024
EAN: 9789004677777
ISBN: 978-90-04-67777-7
Precio (sin IVA): 147,34 €
Precio (IVA incluído): 153,23 €
Structured as five microhistories c. 632-705, this book offers a counternarrative for the formation of Islamic architecture and the Islamic state. It adopts a novel periodization informed by moments of historical violence and anxiety around caliphal identities in flux, animating histories of the minbar, throne, and maqsura as a principal nexus for navigating this anxiety. It expands outward to re-assess the mosque and palace with a focus on the Qubbat al-Khadraʾ and the Dar al-Imara in Kufa. It culminates in a reading of the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem as a site where eschatological anxieties and political survival converge.