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What is Islamic Architecture Through Western Eyes: Volume 2: Volume 2 about?
This volume, the second of three, offers an anthology of Western descriptions of Islamic religious buildings in Syria, Egypt and North Africa, mostly from the seventeenth to early twentieth centuries, taken from travel books and ambassadorial reports. (The third volume will deal with Islamic palaces around the Mediterranean.) As travel became easier and cheaper, thanks to better roads, steamships, hotels and railways, tourist numbers increased, museums accumulated eastern treasures, illustrated
Who reads Islamic Architecture Through Western Eyes: Volume 2: Volume 2?
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- Author
- Michael Greenhalgh
- Publisher
- Brill Academic Pub
- Published
- 2023
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9789004540897
- Category
- art
- Subjects
- History, Architecture, Arts
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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