The Production of Meaning in Islamic Architecture and Ornament

Contents
List of Figures
Preface
PART I: SYRIA
	1 Monuments with a Message: Propagation of Jihād under Nūr al-Dīn (1146–1174)
	2 Survivals and Archaisms in the Architecture of Northern Syria, c. 1080–1150
	3 Circles of Power: Palace, Citadel and City in Ayyubid Aleppo
	4 Ḍayfa Khātūn, Regent Queen and Architectura Patron
	5 Defending Ayyubid Aleppo: The Fortifications of Al-Ẓāhir Ghāzī (1186–1216)
	6 Originality and Innovation in Syrian Woodwork of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
PART II: IRAQ
	7 The Mosque of Nūr al-Dīn in Mosul, 1170–1172
	8 The Resurgence of the Baghdad Caliphate
	9 The Politics of Patronage in Medieval Mosul: Nūr al-Dīn, Badr al-Dīn and the Question of the SunnÈ Revival
PART III: DOMES
	10 The Muqarnas Dome: Its Origin and Meaning
	11 The Muqarnas Domes and Vaults of Cairo
	12 Andalusian Roots and ʿAbbasid Homage in the Qubbat al-Barudiyyin in Marrakech
PART IV: WRITING
	13 The Transformation of Arabic Writing: Part 1, Qurʾānic Calligraphy
	14 The Transformation of Arabic Writing: Part 2, the Public Text
	15 Canonicity and Control: The Sociopolitical Underpinnings of Ibn Muqla’s Reform
PART V: GARDENS
	16 The Medieval Islamic Garden: Typology and Hydraulics
	17 Control and Abandon: Images of Water in Arabic Gardens and Garden Poetry
	18 Eternal Hunting Fields: The Frescos at QusayrʿAmra as a Pastoralist Interpretation of the Paradise Garden
PART VI: SHRINES
	19 Invented Pieties: The Rediscovery and Rebuilding of the Shrine of Sayyida Ruqayya in Damascus, 1975–2006
	20 Glorifying the Imamate: Architecture and Ritual in the Shiʿi Shrines of Syria
	21 The Functional Aspects of Medieval Islamic Hospitals
Index