The Mosques of Egypt |
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| Author:
| O'Kane, Bernard |
| ISBN: | 978-977-416-732-4 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 2016 |
| Publisher: | American University in Cairo Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $105.00 |
Book Description:
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In this fully color-illustrated, large-format volume, a leading historian of Islamic art and culture celebrates the great variety of Egypt's mosques and related religious buildings, from the early congregational mosques, through the medieval mausoleum-madrasas, to the neighborhood mosques of the Ottoman and modern periods. With outstanding architectural photography and authoritative descriptive texts, this book will be valued as the finest on the subject by scholars and general readers...
More DescriptionIn this fully color-illustrated, large-format volume, a leading historian of Islamic art and culture celebrates the great variety of Egypt's mosques and related religious buildings, from the early congregational mosques, through the medieval mausoleum-madrasas, to the neighborhood mosques of the Ottoman and modern periods. With outstanding architectural photography and authoritative descriptive texts, this book will be valued as the finest on the subject by scholars and general readers alike.
Covers more than 80 of the country's most historic mosques, with more than 300 color photographs, in 400 pages.