FIGURE 3.2 Isometric drawing of the Mosque of al-Hakim, Cairo, ca

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Description: Isometric drawing of the Mosque of al-Hakim, Cairo

TitleIsometric drawing of the Mosque of al-Hakim, Cairo

Creator nameCreswell, K. A. C., Sir

Creator nationality/cultureBritish (modern)

Creator roleDraftsman

Creation dateUnknown

Creation date (description)Mosque c. 1003; drawing dates to early 20th century

Object typeDrawing

MaterialsUnknown

LocationAshmolean Museum, Oxford

Accession numberUnknown

SubjectsArchitecture, FatimidArchitectural drawing--20th centuryIslamic architecture--Egypt--Cairo

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3. Al-Hakim’s Esoteric Urbanism

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

Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah was the third Fatimid Imam-caliph in Cairo and the first to be born in the new capital city...

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Jennifer A. Pruitt

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.69-93

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00258.004

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Chapter subject tags:Architecture, FatimidCaliphsIslamic architecture--Egypt--CairoJāmiʻ al-Ḥākim (Cairo, Egypt)Ḥākim bi-Amr Allāh, Caliph of Egypt, 985-approximately 1021

Chapter 6: Central Islamic Lands

Richard Ettinghausen, Oleg Grabar, Marilyn Jenkins-Madina

Islamic Art and Architecture: 650–1250

For reasons provided in the Prologue to Part II of this volume, the presentation of the medieval arts in central Islamic lands has been divided into two sections.

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Richard Ettinghausen, Oleg Grabar, Marilyn Jenkins-Madina

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.187-265

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00202.006

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Chapter subject tags:Architecture, FatimidDecorative arts, FatimidArchitecture, SeljukJazira (Iraq and Syria)Art, Ayyubid

5. Islamic Religious Art: The Mosque

Oleg Grabar

The Formation of Islamic Art

It is customary to separate secular and religious impulses in the formation and development of an art. It is also often said that the separation is not entirely meaningful in Islam, which did not make a distinction between the realms of God and of Caesar. A word of explanation must therefore be provided to justify our use of the term “religious” in the title of this chapter. What we are trying to identify are those elements or sources of inspiration in early Islamic art that could not have …

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Oleg Grabar

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.99-131

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00135.008

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Chapter subject tags:MosquesIslamic shrinesIslam--Prayers and devotionsQur'anMedina (Saudi Arabia)Architecture, UmayyadIslamic architecture--SpainIslamic architecture--Middle EastIslamic architecture--EgyptIslamic decoration and ornamentIslamic calligraphy

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