This volume collects Yasser Tabbaa's investigative and interpretive articles on medieval Islamic architecture, ornament and gardens in Syria and Iraq, with comparative expansions into Anatolia, Egypt, North Africa and Spain. The monuments in question, many of which have vanished in recent years, are examined within the context of the political divisions and theological ruptures that characterised the Islamic world between the 11th and 13th centuries. The writings cover such significant forms as muqarnas vaulting, proportioned Qur'anic scripts and cursive public inscriptions, and monument types such as the madrasa, the hospital, the tribunal (dar al-'adl) and the citadel palace. Collectively, they present medieval Islamic architecture as a transformative process that echoes Abbasid glory and signals future developments in later Islamic architecture.

About the Author
Yasser Tabbaa, Dorothy Kayser Hohenberg Chair of Ecellence in the Department of Art at the University of Memphis until his retirement in 2014.


Book Information
ISBN 9781474482189
Author Yasser Tabbaa
Format Hardback
Page Count 536
Imprint Edinburgh University Press
Publisher Edinburgh University Press