Cities And Caliphs: On The Genesis Of Arab Muslim Urbabism
First Statement of Responsibility
/Nezar Alsayyad
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York, Westport, London
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
: Greenwood
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
, 1991
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xi,196p.: ill, map.
SERIES
Series Title
Contributions to the study of world history; no. 26.
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Code E.Book: 14857
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Index
CONTENTS NOTE
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I. Prologue: The Study of Urban Form and The Problem of the Muslim City --II. The Typical Muslim City: A Historiography of a Concept --III. Urban Creations of the Early Muslim Arabs: The Garrison town as a --IV. Urban Transformations in Early Islam: Arabization or Islamization of Existing Cities --V. Planned Capital Ideal Constructs or Imperial Palaces --VI. Epilogue: The Arab Muslim City and The Genesis of Urban Form: Religious Ideology Versus Caliphal Authority.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Islamic cities and towns -- Arab countries -- History.
Urbanization -- Arab countries -- History
شهرها و شهرستانهای اسلامی -- کشورهای عربی -- تاریخ