Mosques: Splendors of Islam

Author(s): Leyla Uluhanli; Mohammed Hamdouni Alami (Text by); Sussan Babaie (Text by); Walter B. Denny (Text by); Amyn Aga Khan (Foreword by); Renata Holod (Introduction by)

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FOREWORD INDIES Book of the Year Awards -- 2017 GOLD Winner for Architecture


 


One of the most important and authoritative books to celebrate mosque architecture and Islamic design, featuring many exquisite newly commissioned photographs.


 


This visually striking volume illustrates over sixty of the most venerated mosques from historic monuments such as the Great Mosque of C rdoba and Istanbul's S leymaniye Mosque to today's most dynamic new designs exemplified by the Sancaklar Mosque. Essays by prominent architecture and design authorities include Professor Sussan Babaie, Andrew W. Mellon Reader in the Arts of Iran and Islam, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London; Distinguished Professor Walter B. Denny, Department of the History of Art and Architecture, University of Massachusetts at Amherst; Heather Ecker, Visiting Professor, Art and Archaeology, Columbia University; Professor Mohammed Hamdouni Alami, Archaeological Research Facility at University of California, Berkeley; Professor Renata Holod, Professor of Islamic Art, University of Pennsylvania, and Curator in the Near East Section, Penn Museum; Philip Jodidio, author and independent scholar in art and architecture, Geneva; George Michell, author and independent architectural historian, London; Fatima Quraishi, PhD candidate, The Institute of Fine Arts, New York University; Matthew Saba, Visual Resources Librarian for Islamic Architecture, Aga Khan Documentation Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Libraries; and Angela Wheeler, PhD student in Architectural History, Harvard University.

Mosques from Europe, the Indian subcontinent, North America, North Africa and the sub-Sahara, the Middle East, and Russia and the Caucasus are showcased. This book covers their earliest origins in Mecca and Medina to contemporary masterpieces, illuminating their stylistic transformations and providing examples from Islam's great dynasties--the Umayyads, the Abbasids, the Mamluks, the Ottomans, the Safavids, and the Mughals.


 


Original and archival photographs offer exterior and interior views along with images of adjacent gardens and fountains that grace these sanctuaries. Stunning mosque calligraphy and tilework, as well as furnishings and illumination, enhance this volume.

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Leyla Uluhanli is a prominent interior designer based in Moscow. Prince Amyn Aga Khan is a noted architecture preservationist and a member of the board of the Aga Khan Trust for Culture.

General Fields

  • : 9780847860357
  • : Rizzoli International Publications, Incorporated
  • : Rizzoli International Publications, Incorporated
  • : 2.34054
  • : September 2017
  • : 305mm X 254mm
  • : September 2017
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Leyla Uluhanli; Mohammed Hamdouni Alami (Text by); Sussan Babaie (Text by); Walter B. Denny (Text by); Amyn Aga Khan (Foreword by); Renata Holod (Introduction by)
  • : Hardback
  • : English
  • : 726.2
  • : 304
  • : 300 colour photographs