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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Luz, Nimrod (1961-....)
Titre(s) : The Mamluk city in the Middle East [Texte imprimé] : history, culture, and the urban landscape / Nimrod Luz
Publication : New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014
Description matérielle : xv, 265 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Collection : Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization
Lien à la collection : Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"The Mamluk City in the Middle East offers an interdisciplinary study of urban history,
urban experience, and the nature of urbanism in the region under the rule of the Mamluk
Sultanate (1250-1517). The book focuses on three less-explored but politically significant
cities in the Syrian region - Jerusalem, Safad (now in Israel), and Tripoli (now in
Lebanon) - and presents a new approach and methodology for understanding historical
cities. Drawing on diverse textual sources and intensive field surveys, Nimrod Luz
adroitly reveals the character of the Mamluk city as well as various aspects of urbanism
in the region, establishing the pre-modern city of the Middle East as a valid and
useful lens through which to study various themes such as architecture, art history,
history, and politics of the built environment. As part of this approach, Luz considers
the processes by which Mamluk discourses of urbanism were conceptualized and then
inscribed in the urban environment as concrete expressions of architectural design,
spatial planning, and public memorialization"
Sujet(s) : Villes -- Moyen-Orient -- Moyen âge
Paysage urbain -- Moyen-Orient -- Moyen âge
Architecture mamelouke -- Moyen-Orient -- Moyen âge
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781107048843. - ISBN 1107048842
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb44252702h
Notice n° :
FRBNF44252702
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Part A. Introduction ; 1. Urban regional history before the Mamluks: presenting
Tripoli, Safad, and Jerusalem ; Part B. The Tangible City. ; 2. Reading the built
environment: a field survey of Mamluk Jerusalem ; 3. Houses and residential solutions
in the cities of al-Sham ; 4. The neighborhood: social and spatial expressions ;
Part C. The Socially Constructed City ; 5. Awqāf and urban infrastructures ; 6.
Icons of power and expressions of religious piety: the politics of Mamluk patronage
; Part D. The Conceptualized City ; 7. Cities scripted, envisioned, and perceived
; 8. The public sphere ; urban autonomy and its limitations.
