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Splendours of an Islamic World
Henri StierlinAnne Stierlin
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The Art and Architecture of the Mamluks
出版Palgrave Macmillan, 1997-12-15
主題Architecture / History / GeneralArchitecture / Buildings / ReligiousArt / GeneralArt / History / GeneralArt / History / MedievalArt / Middle EasternHistory / Middle East / GeneralReligion / Islam / General
ISBN18606421959781860642197
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=LYg8GTXPqvYC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋"Before the dawn of medieval Europe's Renaissance, the city of Cairo under the Mamluks had become the centre of a powerful empire. The reign of the Mamluk Sultans (1250-1517), descendants of Turkic and Circassian slaves captured by the Ottomans, marked a breath-taking flowering of Islamic art and architecture. Described by the great Arab historian Ibn Khaldun as 'the centre of the universe and the garden of the world', Mamluk Cairo fascinated travellers from East and West alike - whether Christian, Jewish or Muslim. Having defeated the Mongols in the Middle East and broken the bonds of their former Ottoman overlords, the Mamluk Sultans established themselves as masters of Egypt and Syria as well as the Holy Sites of Arabia and Palestine - Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem. In the process they established dominion over trade and commerce in the region - much of the flow of gold, ivory, perls and other jewels, spices and textiles between Asia, Africa and Europe passing through Mamluk-controlled lands and generating enormous economic might for the rulers of Egypt. The fabulous wealth this created enabled the Mamluks to produce art and architecture on a scale and at a level of splendour not previously known in the medieval world. The Mamluks erected over 700 monuments of exceptional importance in Cairo. The Islamic architecture of the period - characterised by the vast courtyards, majestic domes and soaring minarets of palaces, mosques, madrasas (religious colleges), mausolea and caravanserais - provided a feast of intricate brickwork, finely sculpted stone masonry, glorious polychrome marble and subtle geometric mosaics. The tomb of Kalaoun, the madrasas of Mohammed el-Nasir and of Barkuk, the gigantic 'desert' mausoleum constructed in the city of the Dead by Sultan Farag for his father, and the magnificent madrasa of Sultan Hasan, at the foot of the Citadel of Saladin, are among many astonishing examples of Mamluk art. From the thirteenth century to the beginning of the sixteenth, until Ottomans arrived to deal the death blow to this civilisation of warriors and aesthetics. Egypt gave birth to one of the great forms of artistic expression of the Near East." --