Islamic Architecture Through Western Eyes: Volume 2

✍ Scribed by Michael Greenhalgh

• Publisher: Brill
• Year: 2024
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 429
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume, the second of three, offers an anthology of Western descriptions of Islamic religious buildings in Syria, Egypt and North Africa, mostly from the seventeenth to early twentieth centuries, taken from travel books and ambassadorial reports. (The third volume will deal with Islamic palaces around the Mediterranean.) As travel became easier and cheaper, thanks to better roads, steamships, hotels and railways, tourist numbers increased, museums accumulated eastern treasures, illustrated journals proliferated, and photography provided accurate data. All three deal with the impact of Western trade, taste and imports on the East, and examine the encroachment of westernised modernism.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Preface to the Three Volumes
List of Illustrations
Chapter 1 Introduction
1 The Crusades and Their Impact
2 Contacts Through Trade
3 Manuscripts Throughout the Empire
4 Nineteenth-century Travel and Tourism
5 Jerusalem and Cairo
6 The survival of Islam
7 Muslims, Christians and Jews
8 Dress and Stability: Two Disparities between West and East
9 Arrangement of the Book
Chapter 2 Syria and the Holy Land
1 Mosques and How to Enter Them
2 Sketching Islamic Antiquities: Paper and Panoramas
3 Acre: Djezzar’s Mosque
4 Baalbek
5 Damascus
5.1 Cityscape
5.2 Mausolea of Saladin and Bibars
5.3 Green Mosque (Es-Sinaniyeh)
5.4 Umayyad Mosque
5.5 Peeping through the Gates
5.6 Local and European Dress
5.7 Viewing the Mosque from An Upper-storey Window
5.8 Pashas, Trade and Revolt
5.9 The 1860s: Pliant Governors, Fanatical Locals
5.10 From the 1870s: Easy Access
5.11 1893: the Mosque Burns
6 Gaza and Nablus
7 Hebron
7.1 A Brighter Future for Entry by Christians?
8 Baghdad (Present-day Iraq)
9 Jerusalem
9.1 Cityscape
9.2 The Contentious City
9.3 Jerusalem as a Cash Cow: Christians and Jews
9.4 The “Mosque of David”
9.5 The Holy Sepulchre
10 The Haram al Sharif and Its Monuments
10.1 The Platform of the Haram
10.2 Accessing the Haram
10.3 Christians View the Haram from the “House of Pilate”
10.4 The Dome of the Rock
10.5 Accessing the Dome after the Mid-19th Century
11 Ramla/Rama
12 Sidon
Chapter 3 Alexandria and Cairo
1 Alexandria’s Mosques
2 Alexandria’s and Cairo’s Reuse of Antiquities
3 The Pyramids
4 Cairo
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Cairo for Christians
4.3 The French Occupation and Cairo’s Monuments
4.4 Prosperity and Decline
4.5 Advice for Guided Visitors to Cairo
4.6 Cityscape
4.7 Minarets and Domes
4.8 Mosques
4.9 State of the Streets
4.10 State of the Mosques, and Access
4.11 Mosque/Madrasa of Al-Azhar (970 etc. #97)
4.12 Mosque of ‘Amr (827 #319)
4.13 Mosque of Ahmed Ibn Tulun (876–9 #220)
4.14 Mosque/Madrasa/Mausoleum of Sultan Hasan (1356–1359 #133)
4.15 Mosque/Madrasa/Mausoleum of Sultan al-Mansur Qalawun (AD 1284–5 #43)
4.16 Mosque of al-Hakim (990–1013 #15)
4.17 Mosque/Mausoleum of Sultan al-Muayyad Shaykh (AD 1415–22 #190)
4.18 The Ghuriya (Mosque/Madrasa/Mausoleum of Sultan al-Ghuri, 1503–5 #189)
5 Boulaq
6 The Delights of the Citadel
6.1 The Great Diwan of Saladin/Joseph’s Hall
6.2 Mosque of Sultan al-Nasir Muhammad (AD 1318–35 #143)
6.3 Mosque of Muhammad Ali (1833–57 #503)
7 Northern and Southern Cemeteries
7.1 Mosque/Mausoleum of Sultan al-Ashraf Qaytbay (r. 1468–96 #99)
8 Cairo, Modernism and Islamic Survivals
8.1 Restoration and Reconstruction
8.2.1 Museums and Old Monuments
Chapter 4 North Africa
1 Setting the Scene
2 Algeria
2.1 The French Invasion of 1830
2.2 The French Destruction of the Existing Landscape
2.3 Modernity à la française
2.4 Muslims and Jews
2.5 Converting Mosques and Seizing Their Endowments
2.6 Could Arabic Architecture Survive in (French) Algeria?
2.7 Algiers (Occupied 1830)
2.8 Bougie (Occupied 1833)
2.9 Constantine (Occupied 1837)
3 Tlemcen Environs and Its Monuments
3.1 Mansourah
3.2 Sidi Boumediene (Occupied 1836)
3.3 Tlemcen City (Occupied 1836)
3.4 Destruction and Survivals
3.5 The Great Mosque
3.6 The Sidi Bel-Hassen and Sidi el-Haloui Mosques
3.7 The Citadel (Mechouar)
3.8 The Oasis of Sidi Okba
4 Morocco
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Fez
4.3 Photography in Fez and Elsewhere
4.4 Marrakesh/Morocco
4.5 Mequinez/Meknès
4.6 Salee, Rabat and Shellah
4.7 Tangier
4.8 Tetuan
5 Tunisia (French Protectorate 1881–1956)
5.1 Gafsa and Béja
5.2 Kairouan
5.2.1 The Great Mosque of Sidi Okba
5.2.2 Mosque of the Three Doors
5.2.3 Mosque of the Barber/of Sidi Sahbi
5.3 Sousse and Environs
5.4 Testour
5.5 Tunis
5.5.1 No Access to Mosques
5.5.2 Mohamedia and Spolia
6 Libya
6.1 Cyrenaica
6.2 Tripoli in Barbary
Chapter 5 Exhibiting Islamic Lands: Trade, Travel and Empire
1 Overview
1.1 Easier and Cheaper Travel
1.2 Artists, Exhibitions and Moving Images
1.3 Dancing in the Cairo Street
2 Paris 1867 and Dancing Girls
2.1 Countries Cheek by Jowl: Exhibitions and Museums
2.2 Paris 1878
2.3 Paris 1889
3 Chicago Columbian Exhibition 1893
3.1 Cairo Comes to Chicago
3.2 Pangalo the Entrepreneur
3.3 Image and Reality
Bibliography – Sources
Bibliography – Modern Scholars
Index
Illustrations