The Minaret (Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Art)

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.

שנה

2013

שפה

English

הוצאה

Edinburgh University Press

מהדורות

1

עמודים

416

ISBN

9780748637256

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata