Syria's Monuments: their Survival and Destruction
Syria's Monuments: their Survival and Destruction

Author: Michael Greenhalgh

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2016-11-01

Total Pages: 540

ISBN-13: 9004334602

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Syria's Monuments: their Survival and Destruction analyses travellers’ accounts of the Roman, Christian and Islamic monuments of Syria (including Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine/Israel). An epilogue assesses the impact of the recent civil war on the state of the monuments, and their likely future.

Islamic Architecture through Western Eyes: Volume 2
Islamic Architecture through Western Eyes: Volume 2

Author: Michael Greenhalgh

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2024-01-15

Total Pages: 429

ISBN-13: 9004540873

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This volume, the second of three, offers an anthology of Western descriptions of Islamic religious buildings in Syria, Egypt and North Africa, mostly from the seventeenth to early twentieth centuries, taken from travel books and ambassadorial reports. (The third volume will deal with Islamic palaces around the Mediterranean.) As travel became easier and cheaper, thanks to better roads, steamships, hotels and railways, tourist numbers increased, museums accumulated eastern treasures, illustrated journals proliferated, and photography provided accurate data. All three deal with the impact of Western trade, taste and imports on the East, and examine the encroachment of westernised modernism.