{"product_id":"islamic-architecture-through-western-eyes-volume-2-volume-2-9789004540866","title":"Islamic Architecture through Western Eyes: Volume 2: Volume 2","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis volume, the second of three, offers an anthology of Western descriptions of Islamic religious buildings in Syria, Egypt and North Africa, mostly from the seventeenth to early twentieth centuries, taken from travel books and ambassadorial reports. (The third volume will deal with Islamic palaces around the Mediterranean.) As travel became easier and cheaper, thanks to better roads, steamships, hotels and railways, tourist numbers increased, museums accumulated eastern treasures, illustrated journals proliferated, and photography provided accurate data. All three deal with the impact of Western trade, taste and imports on the East, and examine the encroachment of westernised modernism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents   Preface to the Three Volumes ix   List of Illustrations xi      1 Introduction    1 The Crusades and Their Impact    2 Contacts Through Trade    3 Manuscripts Throughout the Empire    4 Nineteenth-century Travel and Tourism    5 Jerusalem and Cairo    6 The survival of Islam    7 Muslims, Christians and Jews    8 Dress and Stability: Two Disparities between West and East    9 Arrangement of the Book      2 Syria and the Holy Land    1 Mosques and How to Enter Them    2 Sketching Islamic Antiquities: Paper and Panoramas    3 Acre: Djezzar’s Mosque    4 Baalbek    5 Damascus    6 Gaza and Nablus    7 Hebron    8 Baghdad (Present-day Iraq)    9 Jerusalem    10 The Haram al Sharif and Its Monuments    11 Ramla\/Rama    12 Sidon      3 Alexandria and Cairo    1 Alexandria’s Mosques    2 Alexandria’s and Cairo’s Reuse of Antiquities    3 The Pyramids    4 Cairo    5 Boulaq    6 The Delights of the Citadel    7 Northern and Southern Cemeteries    8 Cairo, Odernism and Islamic Survivals      4 North Africa    1 Setting the Scene    2 Algeria    3 Could Arabic Architecture Survive in (French) Algeria?    4 Algiers (Occupied 1830)    5 Bougie (Occupied 1833)    6 Constantine (Occupied 1837)    7 Tlemcen Environs and Its Monuments    8 Tlemcen City (Occupied 1836)    9 The Oasis of Sidi Okba    10 Morocco    11 Fez    12 Photography in Fez and Elsewhere    13 Marrakesh\/Morocco    14 Mequinez\/Meknès    15 Salee, Rabat and Shellah    16 Tangier    17 Tetuan    18 Tunisia (French Protectorate 1881–1956)    19 Gafsa and Béja    20 Kairouan    21 Sousse and Environs    22 Testour    23 Tunis    24 Libya    25 Tripoli in Barbary      5 Exhibiting Islamic Lands: Trade, Travel and Empire    1 Overview    2 Easier and Cheaper Travel    3 Artists, Exhibitions and Moving Images    4 Dancing in the Cairo Street    5 Paris 1867 and Dancing Girls   Bibliography – Sources   Bibliography – Modern Scholars   Index   Illustrations","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210863468887,"sku":"9789004540866","price":132.24,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/islamic-architecture-through-western-eyes-volume-2-volume-2-9789004540866","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}