Title: The Islamic baths of Palestine /
Authors: Dow, Martin.
Publisher: Published for the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem by Oxford University Press,
Year: 1996
Subjects: Islamic antiquities Palestine.; Public baths Palestine.; Islamic architecture Palestine.; Baths history; Hydrotherapy history; Palestine Antiquities
Abstract: 2This volume is the first full-length scholarly study ever to be published about Islamic steam baths in Palestine. It contains photographs and plans of all the important remaining Medieval and Ottoman hammams in the area and provides a wealth of historical evidence on this traditional form of Islamic architecture. 2
Contents: Ḥammāms in Palestine -- Architecture of medieval and Ottoman Ḥammāms -- Building methods -- Water supply and drainage -- The origins of early Ḥammāms -- A brief history of Palestine -- The population of the towns -- Numbers of Ḥammāms -- Administration -- Finance -- A catalogue of medieval and Ottoman Ḥammāms in Palestine -- Ḥammāms in Cairo.