The Mamluk city in the Middle East history, culture, and the urban landscape
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New York
Cambridge University Press
2014
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in islamic civilization
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Part I. Introduction: 1. Urban regional history before the Mamluks: presenting Tripoli, Safad, and Jerusalem; Part II. 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 III. The Socially Constructed City: 5. Awqåaf and urban infrastructures; 6. Icons of power and expressions of religious piety: the politics of Mamluk patronage; Part IV. The Conceptualized City: 7. Cities scripted, envisioned, and perceived; 8. The public sphere - urban autonomy and its limitations.
Middle Eastern cities a symposium on ancient, Islamic, and contemporary Middle Eastern urbanism.