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The Walled Arab City in Literature, Architecture and History
This book offers a multidisciplinary approach to the medina, the traditional walled Arab city of North Africa. The medina becomes a concrete case study for comparative explorations of general questions about the social use of urban space by opening up fields of research at the intersection of history, comparative cultural studies, architecture and anthropology. Essays by American, European and North African scholars demonstrate a variety of sources and theoretical approaches now being used in writing historical narratives framed within the city space. They shed light on recent studies by anthropologists regarding social praxis within the urban context, and analyze the urban experience of the medina and the casbah as they are represented in visual and material culture.
Islamic Gardens and Landscapes
Western admirers have long seen the Islamic garden as an earthly reflection of the paradise said to await the faithful. However, such simplification, Ruggles contends, denies the sophistication and diversity of the art form. Islamic Gardens and Landscapes immerses the reader in the world of the architects of the great gardens of the Islamic world, from medieval Morocco to contemporary India. Just as Islamic culture is historically dense, sophisticated, and complex, so too is the history of its built landscapes. Islamic gardens began from the practical need to organize the surrounding space of human civilization, tame nature, enhance the earth's yield, and create a legible map on which to dis...
Middle East Garden Traditions
This book unites new information and surprising results from the last fifteen years of garden research, at a remove from the clichés of Orientalism. Garden archaeology reveals the economic importance of Judean gardens in Roman times and the visual complexity of gardens created and transformed in Moorish Spain. More contemporary approaches unravel the cultural continuities, variations, and differences between gardens in the Middle East since Roman times and in the Islamic world.
Jardins du Maroc
Cet ouvrage est une réédition numérique d’un livre paru au XXe siècle, désormais indisponible dans son format d’origine.
Paysages et jardins des méditerranéens
L'espace méditerranéen vu d'un point de vue artistique et littéraire (textes consacrés aux jardins marocains, hispano-mauresques, persans, provençaux). Le patrimoine écologique (restauration, conservation et restitution selon la Charte de Florence).
Bibliography of Art and Architecture in the Islamic World (2 Vol. Set)
Following the tradition and style of the acclaimed Index Islamicus, the editors have created this new Bibliography of Art and Architecture in the Islamic World. The editors have surveyed and annotated a wide range of books and articles from collected volumes and journals published in all European languages (except Turkish) between 1906 and 2011. This comprehensive bibliography is an indispensable tool for everyone involved in the study of material culture in Muslim societies.
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La préservation des villes impériales marocaines durant le Protectorat
La préservation des villes impériales marocaines durant le Protectorat met en exergue l’importance de l’architecture, des monuments historiques et de l’urbanisme dans la sauvegarde des cités impériales marocaines pendant la période du Protectorat. Les efforts importants mis en œuvre témoignent de l’attachement du Maroc à son inestimable patrimoine culturel, avec les bâtiments symboliques et les médinas scrupuleusement conservés pour les générations à venir. À PROPOS DE L’AUTRICE En tant que docteure en histoire de l’art contemporain, experte en orientalisme, en patrimoine et en art marocain du XXe siècle, Mylène Théliol fait ressortir sa maîtrise du sujet dans cet ouvrage de référence. Elle manifeste ainsi son dévouement pour la préservation du riche patrimoine culturel marocain.
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