Ebook: The Great Mosque of Damascus: Studies in the Makings of an Umayyad Visual Culture
Author: Finbarr Barry Flood
- Series: Islamic History and Civilization
- Year: 2001
- Publisher: Brill
- Language: English
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A detailed and well-illustrated study of the history, architecture and symbolism of the early 8th-century mosque. The heavily annotated text includes analyses of the mosque's mosaic, interior decoration, clock and colonnade and broader discussions of the ambiguous meaning of the mosque's decorations, the topography of early medieval cities and the visual culture of Muslim architecture.
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