Cosmology And Architecture in Premodern Islam
Subtitle: An Architectural Reading of Mystical Ideas (Suny Series in Islam)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: June 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9780791464120
Subjects: Islam; Mysticism; Islam - History; Religion; Architecture; Religious Buildings; History - General; Islam - General; Architecture, Islamic; Islamic art and symbolism; Symbolism in architecture
First sentence: A study of cosmology and architecture from a premodern Sufi perspective pre-supposes some knowledge of the trends in Islamic cosmological thinking, of the sense in which cosmology can be related to architecture and of the terrains of mystical thoughts in which the relationship is grounded.