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02449aam a2200313Ii 4500 001 4445DF76353511EB88BA481D27ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20201203010017 008 190930s2020 enka b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 1787383059 020 $a 9781787383050 035 $a (OCoLC)1121124885 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d ERASA $d OCLCQ $d UKMGB $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d CHVBK $d YDXIT $d OCLCO $d CUT $d SILO 043 $a f------ $a a------ $a f------ 050 4 $a NA950 D37 2020 100 1 $a Darke, Diana 245 10 $a Stealing from the Saracens : $b how Islamic architecture shaped Europe / $c Diana Darke. 264 1 $a London : $b Hurst & Company, $c 2020. 300 $a viii, 474 pages : $b illustrations (colour) ; $c 22 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 8 $a Europeans are in denial. Against a backdrop of Islamophobia, they are increasingly distancing themselves from their cultural debt to the Muslim world. But while the legacy of Islam and the Middle East is in danger of being airbrushed out of Western history, its traces can still be detected in some of Europe's most recognisable monuments, from Notre-Dame to St Paul's Cathedral.0In this comprehensively illustrated book, Diana Darke sets out to redress the balance, revealing the Arab and Islamic roots of Europe's architectural heritage. She tracks the transmission of key innovations from the great capitals of Islam's early empires, Damascus and Baghdad, via Muslim Spain and Sicily into Europe. Medieval crusaders, pilgrims and merchants from Europe later encountered Arab Muslim culture in journeys to the Holy Land. In more recent centuries, that same route through modern-day Turkey connected Ottoman culture with the West, leading Sir Christopher Wren himself to believe that Gothic architecture should more rightly be called 'the Saracen style', because of its Islamic origins.0Recovering this overlooked story within the West's long history of borrowing from the Islamic world, Darke sheds new light on Europe's buildings and offers rich insights into the possibilities of cultural exchange. 650 0 $a Architecture $z Europe $x History. 650 0 $a Architecture $z Islamic countries $x History. 941 $a 3 952 $l PQAX094 $d 20231214014025.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220317023128.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20210406020558.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=4445DF76353511EB88BA481D27ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search