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4. Construction, Destruction, and Concealment under the “Mad Caliph”
Jennifer A. Pruitt
Description: Building the Caliphate: Construction, Destruction, and Sectarian Identity in Early...
Building the Caliphate: Construction, Destruction, and Sectarian Identity in Early Fatimid Architecture
In the middle years of al-Hakim’s reign, from 1007 to 1013, we encounter the two great enigmas of his architectural project—the construction of the austere bastions that...
Author
Jennifer A. Pruitt
PublisherYale University Press
Copyright© 2020 by Jennifer A. Pruitt
Related print edition pages: pp.95-125
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00258.005
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-21431
Chapter subject tags:Architecture, FatimidCaliphsChurch of the Holy Sepulchre (Jerusalem)Ḥākim bi-Amr Allāh, Caliph of Egypt, 985-approximately 1021Jāmiʻ al-Ḥākim (Cairo, Egypt)

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4. Construction, Destruction, and Concealment under the “Mad Caliph”