Main entry:

Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture (31st : 2007 : Washington, D.C.)

Title & Author:

Middle East garden traditions : unity and diversity : questions, methods and resources in a multicultural perspective / edited by Michel Conan.

Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection ; [Cambridge, Mass.] : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2007.

Description:

363 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 27 cm.

Notes:
Papers presented at the 31st Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture, held at the Smithsonian Institution Freer and Sackler galleries, Apr. 2007.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 324-327) and index.
Learning from Middle East garden traditions / Michel Conan -- New perspectives for garden archaeology. The rose and the balsam : the garden as a source of perfume and medicine / Yizhar Hirschfeld ; Soil improvement and agricultural pesticides in antiquity : examples from archaeological research in Israel / Yotam Tepper ; An approach to the visual analysis of the gardens of Al-Andalus / Antonio Almagro ; Ornamental plants in agricultural and botanical treatises from Al-Andalus / Expiración García Sánchez and J. Estaban Hernández Bermejo -- The political uses of gardens. The garden strategy of the Almohad sultans and their successors (1157-1900) / Mohammed El Faïz ; transl. by Maryrica Ortiz Lottman ; Princely Safavid gardens : stage for rituals of imperial display and political legitimacy / Mahvash Alemi ; The royal gardens of Farahābād and the fall of Shah Sultan Husayn revisited / Jean-Do Brignoli ; My garden is Hindustan : the Mughal Padshah's realization of a political metaphor / Ebba Koch ; Questions about the political significance of Mughal garden waterworks / James L. Wescoat, Jr. -- Cultural receptions of gardens. Matrakçi Nasuh and Evliya Çelebi : perspectives on Ottoman gardens (1534-1682) / Nurhan Atasoy ; Unity and diversity of Mughal garden experiences / Abdul Rehman, Shama Anbrine -- Critical discussion of cultural influences. Gardens at the Kağithane commons during the Tulip Period (1718-1730) / B. Deniz Çaliş ; Rajput gardens and landscapes / Jennifer Joffee and D. Fairchild Ruggles -- Exploring the limits of garden traditions. From the Andalusí garden to the Andalusian garden : remnants and re-creation / José Tito Rojo and Manuel Casares Porcel ; Gardens of Afghanistan / Benedict Bull.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents only

ISBN:

9780884023296
088402329X

Subject:

Islamic gardens History Congresses.
Gardens Islamic countries History Congresses.
Jardins islamiques Histoire Congrès.
Gardens
Islamic gardens
Islamic countries
Middle East garden

Form/genre:

Proceedings.
proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
History
Actes de congrès.

Added entries:

Conan, Michel, editor.
Dumbarton Oaks.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 253232
Call No.: SB457.8 .D86 2007
Status: Available