Islamic Architecture Through Western Eyes: Spain, Turkey, India and Persia

Volume 1
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-52484-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 376 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 775 g

This book, the first of three, offers an anthology of Western descriptions of Islamic religious buildings of Spain, Turkey, India and Persia, mostly from the seventeenth to early twentieth centuries, taken from books and ambassadorial reports. As travel became easier and cheaper, thanks to viable roads, steamships, hotels and railways, tourist numbers increased, museums accumulated eastern treasures, illustrated journals proliferated, and photography provided accurate data. The second volume covers some of the religious architecture of Syria, Egypt and North Africa, while the third deals with Islamic palaces around the Mediterranean. All three deal with the impact of Western trade, taste and imports on the East, and examine the encroachment of westernised modernism, judged responsible for the degradation of Islamic styles.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Greenhalgh, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Literatur & Kunst
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Geschichte der Architektur, Baugeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Preface for the Three Volumes

List of Illustrations

1 Introduction

1 Overview

2 Crusades in East and West

3 Contacts through Trade Trigger Westernised Modernisation

4 Constantinople

5 Arrangement of the Book

2 Churches, Mosques and Travellers

1 Westerners Travel around the East

2 Ambassadors Study the Empire

3 Viewing Mosque Architecture

4 Drawing Mosque Exteriors and Interiors

5 A Conflicting Mix of Ideas and Beliefs

6 Forgotten? Westerners and the Eastern Crusades

7 Dress and Doctors

8 Western Habits and Actions Offend Muslims: Footwear and Spitting

9 The End of Islam? The Empire in Decline?

10 The Various Inhabitants of the Empire

11 Architecture in the Empire: Wood, Maintenance and Competence

12 Advice to Western Travellers from Western Authors

13 East Is East: The Development of Curiosity Travel

3 Spain

1 Christians versus Muslims

2 The Alhambra, Granada (Reconquered 1492)

3 Charles V and Architecture

4 Córdoba: the Great Mosque (Mezquita)

5 Seville (Recaptured in 1248)

6 Girault de Prangey and Arab Architecture

4 Constantinople and Adrianople with a Note on Greece

1 The Imperial Firman

2 The Ottoman Building Programme

3 Collecting Manuscripts in Constantinople

4 Adrianople

5 Constantinople

6 Cityscape: “‘Tis Distance Lends Enchantment to the View”

7 Cityscape: Strolling the Streets

8 Seeing Hagia Sophias Everywhere They Look: Royal Mosques

9 Domes, Minarets, and Dimensions

10 Some Constantinople Mosques Visited by Travellers

11 Topkapi / Seraglio

12 Greece: Athens

13 Tripolitza

5 Asia Minor

1 On and Off the Beaten Track

2 Aleppo

3 Alexandria Troas

4 Ankara

5 Ayasoluk – Selçuk – Ephesus

6 Bursa

7 Cyzicus

8 The Dardanelles and Its Cannon

9 Erzerum

10 Karaman, Mut and Nigde

11 Konya

12 Lampsacus

13 Magnesia / Manisa

14 Miletus

15 Mylasa

16 Nicaea

17 Pergamum

18 Smyrna

6 India and Persia

1 India

2 Persia

3 Collecting Persian Tiles

4 A Miscellany of Mosques

7 Coda: Mecca and Medina

Bibliography – Sources

Bibliography – Modern Scholars

Index

Illustrations

Über Autor(innen)

Michael Greenhalgh (PhD Manchester, 1968) is Professor Emeritus of Art History at the Australian National University, and the author of many books and articles dealing with the dilapidation of ancient marble architecture and its later re-use.