The Mamluk City in the Middle East: History, Culture, and the Urban Landscape (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization) - Softcover

Luz, Nimrod

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1107626714 ISBN 13: 9781107626713

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2016

Inhaltsangabe

The Mamluk City in the Middle East offers an interdisciplinary study of urban history, urban experience and the nature of urbanism in the region under the rule of the Mamluk Sultanate (1250–1517), focusing on three less-explored but politically significant cities in the Syrian region - Jerusalem, Safad (now in Israel), and Tripoli (now in Lebanon).

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'Luz's observations are interesting and astute. His work is thus a distinct and interesting contribution to scholarship.' Anne Broadbridge, Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam

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The Mamluk City in the Middle East offers an interdisciplinary study of urban history, urban experience, and the nature of urbanism in the region under the rule of the Mamluk Sultanate (1250–1517). The book focuses on three less-explored but politically significant cities in the Syrian region - Jerusalem, Safad (now in Israel), and Tripoli (now in Lebanon) - and presents a new approach and methodology for understanding historical cities. Drawing on diverse textual sources and intensive field surveys, Nimrod Luz reveals the character of the Mamluk city as well as various aspects of urbanism in the region, establishing the pre-modern city of the Middle East as a valid and useful lens through which to study various themes such as architecture, art history, history, and politics of the built environment. As part of this approach, Luz considers the processes by which Mamluk discourses of urbanism were conceptualized and then inscribed in the urban environment as concrete expressions of architectural design, spatial planning, and public memorialization.

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1107626714
• ISBN 13: 9781107626713
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 286