This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 Excerpt: ...arches. These arches are pointed, the curves becoming straight at the key. Those in the nave are set up on high impost blocks, while those in the aisles are raised by means of pedestals. This type of arch, derived from the Indian 'cyma reversa arch, ' is known as the Persian arch. The fact, however, remains that Persia ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 Excerpt: ...arches. These arches are pointed, the curves becoming straight at the key. Those in the nave are set up on high impost blocks, while those in the aisles are raised by means of pedestals. This type of arch, derived from the Indian 'cyma reversa arch, ' is known as the Persian arch. The fact, however, remains that Persia, so far as we know at present, contains no dated examples earlier than those in the mosque al-Azhar, and it appears to be of Egyptian origin. I describe it as 'the pointed mixtilinear arch.' We do not know the name of the architect who invented this new form. But remembering that its introduction corresponds to the Fatimite conquest, 1 Herz, op. cit., pp. xxxiv and xxxv. Lane-poole, A History of Egypt under tl1e Saracens, pp. 99-104, 117, 242, 276, 302, 324. Bour1ant, Mimoires publiies par les Membres de la Mission Archtologique Francaise au Caire, vol. xix, pp. 43-50; Van Berchem, Matiriaux pour un Corpus inscriptionum arabicarum. Lane, op. cit., pp. 599, 600. Nas1r1 Kusru, op. cit., p. 135. Journal Asiatique, 1891, i, pp. 424-429, 441; Van Berchem, Notes d'Archtologie arabe. Lane Poole, The Story of Cairo, pp. 124, 125. Fig. 132.--Cairo. Mosque al-Azhar. Side of the court and minarets. Fig. 135.--Cairo. Mosque of Hakim. Interior of the dome of the mihrab (X and XI ce ts.). Fig. 136.--Cairo. Mosque of Hakim. Southern minaret (X, XI, and XIV cents.). and that in the great mosque of Kairawan, as far back as the days of Ziyadat Allah I (816-837), round horse-shoe arches were raised up on high bases, it seems to me not improbable that it originated in the desire to combine the pointed arch, which in its horse-shoe form had been brought into vogue in Egypt by Ibn Tulun, with the high imposts at Kairawan, the seat of the Fatimids in Barbary before ...
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Good. No jacket. Cover boards are worn, particularly long edges and corners. Spine is cracked, but binding is secure. Very light pencil margin notes throughout, does not affect legibility of text. Pages are otherwise clean.
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Fair. A readable copy. All pages and the cover are intact. No Dust Cover. Pages have some browning. Edges of pages have some staining. This is a Large item. Standard US Media Mail shipping rates are as stated. Other Shipping Options such as Expedited or International are available, but the buyer will pay the actual shipping cost. Please contact seller for actual shipping rates for your area. Ships from Florida. Satisfaction guaranteed.
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Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 0878171363. Slight wear at spine extremities and corner points.; Reprint of 1918 work. Clean and tight. Text in English, translated from original Italian. Due to size, ships within US only and only by media rate mail.; 4to 11"-13" tall; 383 pp.
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Very Good. Translated by G. McN. Rushforth. frontis, photos, index, xvii, 383p. Gilt-decorated blue cloth. 27cm. Minor fraying at extremities. Institutional stamp removed from title-page (but present on an Index leaf).
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Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press
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1918
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11965244811
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Near Fine. No Jacket. 4to-over 9¾"-12" Tall. 383pp w/340 half-tone photographic illustrations, . Original gilt-ornamented cloth. A fine bright copy. Study documents Islamic mosques in Arabia, Jerusalem, Damascus and Cairo in a comparative study which also examines early churches in Armenia and Spain. Tight and clean.
