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Abbasid Empire
Abbasid throne halls
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early Islamic palace architecture
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garden architecture
garden history
history of Islamic art
history of Western Asia
Islamic art
Islamic gardens
landscape architecture
landscape gardens
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medieval history
Mesopotamia
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palace gardens
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water features
Product details
- ISBN 9781399524254
- Dimensions: 170 x 244mm
- Publication Date: 31 Oct 2024
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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Gardens were both a setting and showcase for nearly every aspect of social and daily life at the royal court during the early Islamic period in Western Asia. Safa Mahmoudian uses ?a wide range of ?primary source materials including ??contemporary ??Arabic manuscripts, together with archaeological ?reports, aerial ?photographs, and archaeologists' letters ?and diaries.? ?Through close readings of this evidence, Mahmoudian creates a picture of these gardens in their historical, architectural and environmental contexts and examines various factors that influenced their design and placement. In doing so, Mahmoudian adds to our understanding of these gardens and palaces and, ultimately, early Islamic-period court culture as a whole.
Safa Mahmoudian is a Senior Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Vienna, funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). She has previously held academic positions at the Khalili Research Centre at the University of Oxford, the Institute of Iranian Studies at the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the Department of Art History of the University of Vienna. Her earlier work explored the riverine landscape of a main water canal – Fadan Mādī – in seventeenth-century Isfahan from various angles, and her current research focuses on cross-cultural interactions between Khorasan and Lower Mesopotamia during the early Islamic period.
