The Great Mosque of Damascus: Studies on the Makings of an Umayyad Visual Culture

by Finbarr Barry Flood

The celebrated Great Mosque of Damascus was built in the early eighth century by the Umayyad caliph al-Walīd b. 'Abd al-Malik. This book provides a detailed study of this Mosque. Using textual, visual, and archaeological evidence, the author attempts to reconstruct some of the basic formal and decorative features of the Umayyad mosque, to locate it within its broader urban context, and to consider its role within al-Walīd's unprecedented...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004116389
• ISBN13: 9789004116382
• Release Date: December 2001
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 428 Pages
• Weight: 2.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.5" x 9.6"