Creswell Photographs Re-examined: New Perspectives on Islamic Architecture - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9774162447 ISBN 13: 9789774162442

Publisher: The American University in Cairo Press, 2009

Synopsis

The Creswell photographic archive at the American University in Cairo is an invaluable resource of over 12,000 printed images of Islamic architecture, mainly in Cairo, but also including buildings in other important cities such as Córdoba and Baghdad. Creswell’s own photographs constitute the majority of the collection, but he also assembled work by photographers active in the decades before he began his systematic recording in the 1920s. This volume of collected studies seeks to highlight the value of this collection for scholars, who can examine the visual evidence of architecture now destroyed or altered in order to better understand various aspects of these significant buildings. Contributors discuss such issues as epigraphy in domestic and religious architecture, the use of early photographs as guides for modern restoration, and military architecture.

Contributors: Tarek Galal Abdel-Hamid, Noha Abou-Khatwa, Conchita Añorve-Tschirgi, Dina Ishak Bakhoum, Nairy Hampikian, May al-Ibrashy, Hani Hamza, Chahinda Karim, Dina Montasser, Bernard O’Kane, Seif El-Rashidi, Ola Seif, Nicholas Warner.

About this title

About the Author:

Bernard O’Kane is a professor in the Arab and Islamic Civilizations Department of the American University in Cairo.

About this edition

• Publisher: The American University in Cairo Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 9774162447
• ISBN 13: 9789774162442
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 416
• Editor: O’Kane Bernard