The Architecture of Ottoman Jerusalem

Architecture of Ottoman Jerusalem, The
An Introduction

Robert Hillenbrand

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Product ID: RP-4-0001
Status: Available

Illustrator: None
Format: 260 x 200 mm
Page: 136
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Altajir World of Islam Trust, UK
Year: 2002
ISBN 10: 1-901435-09-1
ISBN 13: 978-1-901435-09-2

ABOUT THIS BOOK

This book is intended to serve as an easily accessible introduction to the architecture of Ottoman Jerusalem, which forms the backdrop to the world-famous sacred buildings which are the goal of thousands of visitors every year.

Most of the Ottoman public monuments were built for pious purposes, modest in scale but often richly ornamented. They include fountains, study cells, commemorative domed structures, open-air mihrabs, minarets and Sufi convents, as well as grander enterprises like the encircling city walls and restorations to the Citadel and the Dome of the Rock. These buildings, like the pre-modern urban fabric into which they are so comfortably integrated, testify to the solid affection which Jerusalem has inspired in its Muslim citizens over the past five centuries.

This book contains many drawings, black and white plates and 8 pages in colour.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Professor Robert Hillenbrand was educated at the universities of Cambridge and Oxford; he has been teaching at the Department of Fine Art, University of Edinburgh, since 1971 and was awarded a chair of Islamic Art in 1989.

His travels have taken him throughout the Islamic world. He has held visiting professorships at Princeton, UCLA, Bamberg and Dartmouth College and Groningen. He has written, co-written or edited many books on Islamic art and architecture He has also published over a hundred articles on aspects of Islamic art and architecture.

In 1977 he curated one of the largest exhibitions of Persian miniature painting ever held. His scholarly interests focus on Islamic architecture, painting and iconography, with particular reference to Iran and to Umayyad Syria.

He has served on the editorial boards of Art History, Persica, Asaph, Bulletin of the Asia Institute and Oxford Studies in Islamic Art, and on the Councils of the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem, British Research in the Levant, and the British Institute of Persian Studies (Vice-President).

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