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Bloom Reveals That The Minaret, Long Understood To Have Been Invented In The Early Years Of Islam As The Place From Which The Muezzin Gives The Call To Prayer, Was Actually Invented Some Two Centuries Later To Be A Visible Symbol Of Islam. Drawing On Buildings, Archaeological Reports, Medieval Histories, Geographies, And Early Arabic Poetry, He Reinterprets The Origin, Development, And Meanings Of The Minaret And Provides A Sweeping Historical And Geographical Tour Of The Minaret's Position As The Symbol Of Islam. The History Of Scholarship And The Nature Of The Problem -- The Adhan. The Mi'dhana And The Sawma'a -- Mandras And Mandrs -- The Mosque Tower -- Why Were Towers Added To Mosques? -- The Minaret In The Maghrib And The Ninth Century -- The Triumph Of The Córdoban Minaret In The Maghrib -- The Minaret In Egypt Through The Ayyubid Period -- The Minaret In The Central And Eastern Islamic Lands Before The Seljuqs -- The Minaret During The Seljuq Era -- The Minaret After The Mongol Conquests -- The Minaret Beyond The Persianate World -- The Spread Of The Minaret Into Modern Times. Jonathan M. Bloom. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 363-381) And Index.

Author

Jonathan M. Bloom

Publisher

Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9780748637256

Subjects

Art, Arts