The City in the Muslim World (eBook, ePUB)

Depictions by Western Travel Writers
Redaktion: Gharipour, Mohammad; Ozlu, Nilay

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book is about the city and travel in the Islamic world. In particular it examines how the city, as a social product, is defined and depicted, and the role of travel writing in that process.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. März 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317548218
• Artikelnr.: 42508505

Autorenporträt

Mohammad Gharipour is Associate Professor at the School of Architecture and Planning at Morgan State University in Baltimore, USA. He is the author of Persian Gardens and Pavilions: Reflections in Poetry, Arts and History (2013), editor of Bazaar in the Islamic City (2012), co-editor of Calligraphy and Architecture in the Muslim World (2013), and editor of Sacred Precincts: The Religious Architecture of Non-Muslim Communities across the Islamic World (2014). Gharipour is the director and founding editor of the International Journal of Islamic Architecture. Nilay Özlü is an architect with Master's in the History and Theory of Architecture and a MBA from the University of San Francisco. Currently, she is a PhD candidate at the Bosphorus University, Department of History and writes for art, architecture, and history journals. Her topics of interests include urban theory, museology, visual culture and critical architectural theory.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1 Mobile Urbanism: Tent Cities in Medieval Travel Writing
Mohammad Gharipour and Manu Sobti 2 Understanding the City Through
Traveller's Tales: Cairo as Seen and Experienced by Two Fourteenth-Century
Italians Felicity Ratte 3 Where Is the Greatest City in the East? The
Mughal City of Lahore in European Travel Accounts (1556-1648) Mehreen
Chida-Razvi 4 The Image of the City: Public Baths and Urban Space in
Western Travellers' Descriptions of Ottoman Sofia Stefan Peychev 5 Cultural
Encounters between Europeans and Arabs: Carsten Niebuhr's Reflections on
Cities of the Islamic World (1761-1767) Jørgen Mikkelsen 6 Western Eyes on
Jannina: Foreign Narratives of a City Recorded in Texts and Images
(1788-1822) Renia Paxinou 7 Single P(a)lace, Multiple Narratives: The
Topkapi Palace in Western Travel Accounts from the Eighteenth to the
Twentieth Century Nilay Özlü 8 Tensions and Interactions: Muslim, Christian
and Jewish Towns in Palestine Through European Travellers' Accounts
(Eighteenth-Twentieth Century) Valérie Géonet 9 In and Out of the Frame:
Finnish Painters Discovering Tunisia Marie-Sophie Lundström 10 "The Orient
Veneered in the Occident": Naserid Tehran in the Eyes of European
Travellers Mohammad R. Shirazi 11 No Place for a Tourist: Imagining Fez in
the Burton Holmes Travelogue Michelle Craig 12 Turkey's Challenge to the
Occident: British Views of Republican Ankara Davide Deriu