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The Middle East Garden Traditions: Unity and Diversity; Questions, Methods, and Resources in a Multicultural Perspective...
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by Michel Conan
Sales Rank: 429186
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Features
Cover Type: Paperback with 320 pages
Published by: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection February 29, 2008
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 088402329X
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0884023296
Book Dimensions:
10.4 x 9.4 x 1.1 inches
Weighs: 3 pounds
Product Description
This book unites new information and surprising results from the last fifteen years of garden research, at a remove from the clichés of Orientalism. Garden archaeology reveals the economic importance of Judean gardens in Roman times and the visual complexity of gardens created and transformed in Moorish Spain. More contemporary approaches unravel the cultural continuities, variations, and differences between gardens in the Middle East since Roman times and in the Islamic world. Scholars present new sources for studies of gardens in India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, the Ottoman world, Judea, Morocco, and Moorish Spain. They explore the interplay of conflicting influences, the cultural reception of gardens in religious and mystical societies, and the political uses of gardens, presenting an unexpected diversity of garden forms in all levels of society.
About The Author
Michel Conan is Director of Garden and Landscape Studies, Dumbarton Oaks.
Reader Reviews
It is not by chance that this book provides an innovative themes on landscape of this part of the world, for long ago, perhaps during the rein of Andalus by the Arabs Umyyad dynasties that gardening emerged as science as well as art then reached Europe and this could be traced in the royal palaces in the current Spain. Though the book is not concerned with covering such historic period, but it is considered to be a fundamental source for every library to hold in its collection.
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