Islamic Architecture through Western Eyes: Volume 2

Michael Greenhalgh (PhD Manchester, 1968) is Professor Emeritus of Art History at the Australian National University. He is the author of many books and articles dealing with the attractions and reuse of ancient marble architecture, and with the antiquities of the Middle East and North Africa.

Contents


Preface to the Three Volumes ix


List of Illustrations xi





1 Introduction


 1 The Crusades and Their Impact


 2 Contacts Through Trade


 3 Manuscripts Throughout the Empire


 4 Nineteenth-century Travel and Tourism


 5 Jerusalem and Cairo


 6 The survival of Islam


 7 Muslims, Christians and Jews


 8 Dress and Stability: Two Disparities between West and East


 9 Arrangement of the Book





2 Syria and the Holy Land


 1 Mosques and How to Enter Them


 2 Sketching Islamic Antiquities: Paper and Panoramas


 3 Acre: Djezzar’s Mosque


 4 Baalbek


 5 Damascus


 6 Gaza and Nablus


 7 Hebron


 8 Baghdad (Present-day Iraq)


 9 Jerusalem


 10 The Haram al Sharif and Its Monuments


 11 Ramla/Rama


 12 Sidon





3 Alexandria and Cairo


 1 Alexandria’s Mosques


 2 Alexandria’s and Cairo’s Reuse of Antiquities


 3 The Pyramids


 4 Cairo


 5 Boulaq


 6 The Delights of the Citadel


 7 Northern and Southern Cemeteries


 8 Cairo, Odernism and Islamic Survivals





4 North Africa


 1 Setting the Scene


 2 Algeria


 3 Could Arabic Architecture Survive in (French) Algeria?


 4 Algiers (Occupied 1830)


 5 Bougie (Occupied 1833)


 6 Constantine (Occupied 1837)


 7 Tlemcen Environs and Its Monuments


 8 Tlemcen City (Occupied 1836)


 9 The Oasis of Sidi Okba


 10 Morocco


 11 Fez


 12 Photography in Fez and Elsewhere


 13 Marrakesh/Morocco


 14 Mequinez/Meknès


 15 Salee, Rabat and Shellah


 16 Tangier


 17 Tetuan


 18 Tunisia (French Protectorate 1881–1956)


 19 Gafsa and Béja


 20 Kairouan


 21 Sousse and Environs


 22 Testour


 23 Tunis


 24 Libya


 25 Tripoli in Barbary





5 Exhibiting Islamic Lands: Trade, Travel and Empire


 1 Overview


 2 Easier and Cheaper Travel


 3 Artists, Exhibitions and Moving Images


 4 Dancing in the Cairo Street


 5 Paris 1867 and Dancing Girls


Bibliography – Sources


Bibliography – Modern Scholars


Index


Illustrations