The Great Mosque of Damascus studies on the makings of an Umayyad visual culture

Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
A note on transliteration and dates
1. Introduction
2. Heavenly cities and hanging lamps: ambiguity and meaning in the courtyard mosaics
	Pendant jewels
	The Byzantine role
	Paradise and the pearl
	Pearly stars and hanging lamps
	The qulayla and the illumination of the Umayyad Mosque
3. The decoration of the prayer-hall: the karma and its antecedents
	The karma
	Framing sacred space in Syria and Byzantium
	St. Polyeuktos and the Temple vine
	Vine ornament in the Dome of the Rock
	The Damascus vine and its significance
4. The Bāb Jayrūn clock and the migration of the ‘Bāb al-Sāʿā’
	The Bāb Jayrūn clock
	The Bāb al-Sāʿā
	Palace, mosque and clock
5. Topography and intertextuality in Umayyad Damascus
	Porter’s colonnade
	The Khaḍrāʾ in context
	The Bāb al-Sāʿā and the Horologion
	Umayyad Damascus and the topography of Constantinopole
	Citing the early medieval city
	The Bāb al-Sāʿā revisited
6. Damascus and the makings of an Umayyad visual culture
	The building programme of al-Walīd
	Elements of an imperial style
	The role of Damascus
	Architecture and its audiences: reading the visual text
7. Epilogue
Appendix: The lost inscriptions of the Umayyad Mosque
Bibliography
Index
	Name and Title Index
	Place Index
	Subject Index
Illustrations