Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-279) and index.
Contents:
Introduction. Architecture and poetics ; The aims of this book -- Architecture and meaning in the theory of al-Jāḥiẓ. Architecture and meaning : al-Jāḥiẓ's view ; Aesthetic, variety and emotion ; Voice, body and emotion ; Al-Bayān, architecture and commemoration -- Architecture and poetics. Modus operandi ; Al-Khalil's theory of language ; Arabic poetics ; The palace and the Qaṣīda -- Architecture and myth. Ḥadīthu Sinimmār -- Al-Jāḥiẓ in the mosque at Damascus : social critique and debate in the history Umayyad architecture. Yaqubi's account ; Muqaddasi's account ; Architecture and hospitality ; 'Umar II : architecture and piety -- Architecture and desire. "Architects" or architectural planners ; The desire for architecture ; Architecture and misrecognition ; The travelling gaze : Ibn al-Jahm's eulogy of the palace al-Haruni ; Building, reflection and emptiness -- Conclusion.
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