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Book SynopsisA conference on the Islamic garden was held at M.I.T. in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1994. This volume collects eight papers from the conference and two additional papers especially written for the book, to further and act as a basis for the attention given by scholars these days to Islamic landscape architecture.
Table of ContentsMirka Beneš: The Social Significance of Transforming the Landscape at the Villa Borghese, 1606-30: Territory, Trees and Agriculture in the Design of the First Roman Baroque Park. Gülru Necipoğlu: The Suburban Landscape of Sixteenth-Century Istanbul as a Mirror of Classical Ottoman Garden Culture. Mahvash Alemi: The Royal Gardens of the Safavid Period: Types and Models. R.D. McChesney: Some Observations on "Garden" and Its Meanings in the Property Transactions of the Juybari Family in Bukhara, 1544-77. Maria Eva Subtelny: Agriculture and the Timurid Chahārbāgh: The Evidence from a Medieval Persian Agricultural Manual. *Gauvin Bailey: The Sweet-Smelling Notebook: An Unpublished Mughal Source on Garden Design. Ebba Koch: The Mughal Waterfront Garden. *Abdul Rehman: Garden Types in Mughal Lahore According to Early-Seventeenth-Century Written and Visual Sources. D. Fairchild Ruggles: Humayun's Tomb and Garden: Typologies and Visual Order. James L. Wescoat, Jr.: Mughal Gardens and Geographic Sciences, Then and Now. *additional paper, not part of conference
