The Great Mosque of Damascus : studies on the makings of an Umayyad visual culture / by Finbarr Barry Flood.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2001.
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| Series: | Islamic history and civilization ;
v. 33. |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Heavenly cities and hanging lamps: ambiguity and meaning in the courtyard mosaics
- 3. The decoration of the prayer-hall: the karma and its antecedents
- 4. The Bab Jayrun clock and the migration of the 'Bab al-Sa'a'
- 5. Topography and intertextuality in Umayyad Damascus
- 6. Damascus and the makings of an Umayyad visual culture
- 7. Epilogue
- App. The lost inscriptions of the Umayyad Mosque.