{"product_id":"islamic-architecture-through-western-eyes-spain-turkey-india-and-persia-volume-1-9789004524842","title":"Islamic Architecture through Western Eyes: Spain, Turkey, India and Persia: Volume 1","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents   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","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210853769559,"sku":"9789004524842","price":133.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/islamic-architecture-through-western-eyes-spain-turkey-india-and-persia-volume-1-9789004524842","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}