Nimrod Luz

The Mamluk City in the Middle East

History, Culture, and the Urban Landscape

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An interdisciplinary study of urban history, urban experience and the nature of urbanism under the rule of the Mamluk Sultanate (1250-1517).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. April 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 147mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9781107048843
• ISBN-10: 1107048842
• Artikelnr.: 40722365

Autorenporträt

Dr Nimrod Luz is a senior lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the Western Galilee College, Israel.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Introduction: 1. Urban regional history before the Mamluks:
presenting Tripoli, Safad, and Jerusalem; Part II. The Tangible City: 2.
Reading the built environment: a field survey of Mamluk Jerusalem; 3.
Houses and residential solutions in the cities of al-Sham; 4. The
neighborhood: social and spatial expressions; Part III. The Socially
Constructed City: 5. Awq¿f and urban infrastructures; 6. Icons of power and
expressions of religious piety: the politics of Mamluk patronage; Part IV.
The Conceptualized City: 7. Cities scripted, envisioned, and perceived; 8.
The public sphere - urban autonomy and its limitations.