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Building the Caliphate: Construction, Destruction, and Sectarian Identity in Early Fatimid Architecture - Hardcover

Pruitt, Jennifer A.

 
9780300246827: Building the Caliphate: Construction, Destruction, and Sectarian Identity in Early Fatimid Architecture
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 030024682X ISBN 13: 9780300246827
Verlag: Yale University Press, 2020

Inhaltsangabe

A riveting exploration of how the Fatimid dynasty carefully orchestrated an architectural program that proclaimed their legitimacy

This groundbreaking study investigates the early architecture of the Fatimids, an Ismaili Shi‘i Muslim dynasty that dominated the Mediterranean world from the 10th to the 12th century. This period, considered a golden age of multicultural and interfaith tolerance, witnessed the construction of iconic structures, including Cairo’s al-Azhar and al-Hakim mosques and crucial renovations to Jerusalem’s Dome of the Rock and Aqsa Mosque. However, it also featured large-scale destruction of churches under the notorious reign of al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, most notably the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem. Jennifer A. Pruitt offers a new interpretation of these and other key moments in the history of Islamic architecture, using newly available medieval primary sources by Ismaili writers and rarely considered Arabic Christian sources. Building the Caliphate contextualizes early Fatimid architecture within the wider Mediterranean and Islamic world and demonstrates how rulers manipulated architectural form and urban topographies to express political legitimacy on a global stage.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Jennifer A. Pruitt is assistant professor of Islamic art history at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

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Verlag
Yale University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2020
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
030024682X
ISBN 13 
9780300246827
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
204
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