Ayyubid Jerusalem
Subtitle: the holy city in context 1187-1250
By: edited by Robert Hillenbrand and Sylvia Auld
Publisher: Altajir Trust
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 517
ISBN-13: 9781901435061
Subjects: History; Ayyubid Art; Ayyubid Architecture; Islamische Architektur; Architektur
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 471-500) and index.
Table of contents: title: Ayyubid Jerusalem : a historical introduction / Carole Hillenbrand; title: The art of the Ayyubids : an overview / Robert Hillenbrand; title: Cross-currents and coincidences : a perspective on Ayyubid metalwork / Sylvia Auld; title: The minbar of Nur Al-Din in context / Sylvia Auld; title: The wooden balustrade in the Sakhra / Sylvia Auld; title: The power of the word : Ayyubid inscriptions in Jerusalem / Sheila S. Blair; title: Woodwork in Syria, Palestine and Egypt during the 12th and 13th century / Jonathan M. Bloom; title: Smaller domes in the Haram Al-Sharif reconsidered in light of a recent survey / Michael Hamilton Burgoyne; title: Ayyubid illustrated manuscripts and their north Jaziran and Abbasid neighbours / Anna Contadini; title: Religious circles in Jerusalem in the Ayyubid period / Anne-Marie Eddé; title: An ambiguous aesthetic : crusader Spolia in Ayyubid Jerusalem / Finbarr Barry Flood; title: Ayyubid monuments in Jerusalem / Mahmoud Hawari; title: Economic growth and currency in Ayyubid Palestine / Stefan Heidemann; title: The Ayyubid Aqsa : decorative aspects / Robert Hillenbrand; title: Eastern Christian art and culture in the Ayyubid and early Mamluk periods : cultural convergence between Jerusalem, Greater Syria and Egypt / Lucy-Anne Hunt; title: Qur'ans and calligraphers of the Ayyubids and Zangids / David James; title: From monastic cloisters to Sahn : the transformation of the open space of the Masjid Al-Aqsa under Saladin / Sabri Jarrah; title: Ayyubid mosaics in Jerusalem / Lorenz Korn; title: Ayyubid Jerusalem in perspective : the context of Ayyubid architecture in Bilad Al-Sham / Lorenz Korn; title: The pottery of Ayyubid Jerusalem / Marcus Milwright; title: Science as the handmaiden of power : science, art and technology in Ayyubid Syria / Martina Müller-Wiener; title: Ayyubid architecture in Cairo / Bernard O'Kane; title: The people of the book / Johannes Pahlitzsch; title: Biographies of Ayyubid Sultans / D.S. Richards; title: Ibn Wasil, historian of the Ayyubids / D.S. Richards; title: An image of what once was : the Ayyubid fortifications of Jerusalem / Yasser Tabbaa.