The Mamluk city in the Middle East : history, culture, and the urban landscape /

Main Author: Luz, Nimrod
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014
Series:Cambridge studies in islamic civilization
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300 |a xv, 265 pages :   |b illustrations, maps ;   |c 24 cm 
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index 
505 0 |a Part I. Introduction: 1. Urban regional history before the Mamluks: presenting Tripoli, Safad, and Jerusalem; Part II. The Tangible City: 2. Reading the built environment: a field survey of Mamluk Jerusalem; 3. Houses and residential solutions in the cities of al-Sham; 4. The neighborhood: social and spatial expressions; Part III. The Socially Constructed City: 5. Awqaf and urban infrastructures; 6. Icons of power and expressions of religious piety: the politics of Mamluk patronage; Part IV. The Conceptualized City: 7. Cities scripted, envisioned, and perceived; 8. The public sphere - urban autonomy and its limitations 
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