Title & Author:

Muslim military architecture in greater Syria : from the coming of Islam to the Ottoman Period / edited by Hugh Kennedy.

Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2006.

Description:

xviii, 323 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Series:

History of warfare, 1385-7827 ; v. 35

Notes:
"The papers presented in this volume are a selection of those given at the international conference on Islamic fortification in Bilal al-Sham in Aleppo 16-19 September, 2003" -- Introduction.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Umayyad castles : the shift from late antique military architecture to early Islamic palatial building / Denis Genequand -- Qaṣr Ḥallabāt (Jordan) revisited : reassessment of the material evidence / Ignacio Arce -- Recent excavations in early Abbasid Kharāb Sayyār / Jan-Waalke Meyer -- The excavations at Madīnat al-Fār/Ḥiṣn Maslama on the Balikh Road / Claus-Peter Haase -- The walls of early Islamic Ayla : defence or symbol? / Donald Whitcomb -- The "kastron" of Qalʻat Simʻān / Jean-Luc Biscop -- The militarization of taste in medieval Bilād al-Shām / Nasser Rabbat -- The development of Islamic military architecture during the Ayyubid and Mamluk reconquests of Frankish Syria / Benjamin Michaudel -- The citadel of al-Raqqa and fortifications in the middle Euphrates area / Stefan Heidemann -- La citadelle de Damas : les apports d'une etude archéologique / Sophie Berthier -- The citadel of Aleppo : recent studies / Julia Gonnella -- Defending Ayyubid Aleppo : the fortifications of al-Ẓāhir Ghāzī (1186-1216) / Yasser Tabbaa -- The citadel of Ḥārim / Sauro Gelichi -- The castle of Shayzar : the fortification of the access system / Cristina Tonghini and Nadia Montevecchi -- The tower of Aybak in ʻAjlūn castle : an example of the spread of an architectural concept in early 13th-century Ayyubid fortification / Cyril Yovitchitch -- Exploratory mission to Shumaymis, 2002 / Janusz Bylinski -- Medieval cave fortifications of the Upper Orontes Valley (a preliminary report) / Balázs Major -- Qalʻat al-Rūm/Hṙomgla/Rumkale and the Mamluk siege of 691AH/1292CE / Angus Stewart -- Fortifications East and West / John France -- Defensive ditches in Ottoman fortifications in Bilād al-Shām / Kay Prag -- Ottoman hajj forts / Andrew Petersen.

ISBN:

9004147136 (hd. bd. ; acid-free paper)
9789004147133 (hd. bd. ; acid-free paper)

Subject:

Military architecture Syria History.
Islamic architecture Syria History.
Architecture militaire Syrie Histoire.
Architecture islamique Syrie Histoire.
Islamic architecture.
Military architecture.
Befestigung
Islam
Zitadelle
Islamic architecture Syria.
Architecture, Mameluke Syria.
Architecture, Ayyubid Syria.
Architecture, Ottoman Syria.
Syria.
Syrien
Naher Osten

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Kennedy, Hugh (Hugh N.)
History of warfare ; v. 35.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 251677
Call No.: BIB 181234
Status: Available