TY  - BOOK
AU  - Flood,Finbarr
TI  - The Great Mosque of Damascus: Studies on the Makings of an Umayyad Visual Culture 
T2  - Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
SN  - 9789004491618
AV  - NA5989.7.D34 
U1  - 726/.2/09569144 23
PY  - 2000///
CY  - Leiden; , Boston
PB  - BRILL
KW  - Architecture, Medieval
KW  - Syria
KW  - Damascus
KW  - Islamic architecture
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - The celebrated Great Mosque of Damascus was built in the early eighth century by the Umayyad caliph al-Walīd b. 'Abd al-Malik. This book provides a detailed study of this Mosque. Using textual, visual, and archaeological evidence, the author attempts to reconstruct some of the basic formal and decorative features of the Umayyad mosque, to locate it within its broader urban context, and to consider its role within al-Walīd's unprecedented programme of architectural patronage. The work explores the intracultural and intercultural functions of religious architecture within an official visual discourse intended to project a distinctive Muslim identity in a manner determined by Umayyad political aspirations. It will be of particular interest to those concerned with the relationship between the Umayyad caliphate and Byzantium
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004491618
ER  -