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020			_a9781911723479 _qpaperback
020			_z9781787383050 _qhardback
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049			_aAlfaisal Main Library
050	0	0	_aNA950 _b.D37 2024
100	1		_aDarke, Diana.
245	1	0	_aStealing from the Saracens : _bhow Islamic architecture shaped Europe / _cDiana Darke.
246	3	0	_aHow Islamic architecture shaped Europe
260			_c2024
264		1	_aLondon : _bHurst & Company, _c2024
300			_aviii, 474 pages : _billustrations (chiefly color), color portrait ; _c22 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
336			_astill image _bsti _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 443-449) and index.
505	0		_aChristopher Wren: the arch-synthesiser -- Gothic architecture: 'the Saracen style' -- The pre-Islamic inheritance: pagan and early Christian architecture in Syria -- The first Islamic empire: the Umayyads in Syria (661-750) -- Andalusia: the Umayyads in Spain (756-1492) -- The Abbasid and Fatimid caliphates (750-1258) -- Gateways to Europe (800-1400) -- The Seljuks, the Ottomans and Sinan (1075-1924) -- The revivals: Neo-Gothic, Neo-Saracenic, Neo-Moorish (1717-2026) -- Iconic buildings of Europe: a gallery of images with key influences.
520	8		_aEuropeans are in denial. Against a backdrop of Islamophobia, they are increasingly distancing themselves from their cultural debt to the Muslim world. But while the legacy of Islam and the Middle East is in danger of being airbrushed out of Western history, its traces can still be detected in some of Europe's most recognisable monuments, from Notre-Dame to St Paul's Cathedral.0In this comprehensively illustrated book, Diana Darke sets out to redress the balance, revealing the Arab and Islamic roots of Europe's architectural heritage. She tracks the transmission of key innovations from the great capitals of Islam's early empires, Damascus and Baghdad, via Muslim Spain and Sicily into Europe. Medieval crusaders, pilgrims and merchants from Europe later encountered Arab Muslim culture in journeys to the Holy Land. In more recent centuries, that same route through modern-day Turkey connected Ottoman culture with the West, leading Sir Christopher Wren himself to believe that Gothic architecture should more rightly be called 'the Saracen style', because of its Islamic origins.0Recovering this overlooked story within the West's long history of borrowing from the Islamic world, Darke sheds new light on Europe's buildings and offers rich insights into the possibilities of cultural exchange --
650		0	_aArchitecture _zEurope _xHistory.
650		0	_aArchitecture _zIslamic countries _xHistory.
655		0	_aPrint books. _2local _94
776	0	8	_iOnline version: _aDarke, Diana. _tStealing from the Saracens. _dLondon : Hurst & Company, 2020 _z9781787385108 _w(OCoLC)1225885461
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