Name: Building the Caliphate: Construction, Destruction, and Sectarian Identity in Early Fatimid Architecture
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Author: Jennifer A. Pruitt
ISBN: 9780300246827

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Building the Caliphate: Construction, Destruction, and Sectarian Identity in Early Fatimid Architecture

Type

Physical Book

Publisher

Yale Univ Pr

Author

Jennifer A. Pruitt

Year

2020

Language

English

Pages

216

Format

Hardcover

ISBN13

9780300246827

Synopsis "Building the Caliphate: Construction, Destruction, and Sectarian Identity in Early Fatimid Architecture "

A riveting exploration of how the Fatimid dynasty carefully orchestrated an architectural program that proclaimed their legitimacy This groundbreaking study investigates the early architecture of the Fatimids, an Ismaili Shi'i Muslim dynasty that dominated the Mediterranean world from the 10th to the 12th century. This period, considered a golden age of multicultural and interfaith tolerance, witnessed the construction of iconic structures, including Cairo's al-Azhar and al-Hakim mosques and crucial renovations to Jerusalem's Dome of the Rock and Aqsa Mosque. However, it also featured large-scale destruction of churches under the notorious reign of al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, most notably the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem. Jennifer A. Pruitt offers a new interpretation of these and other key moments in the history of Islamic architecture, using newly available medieval primary sources by Ismaili writers and rarely considered Arabic Christian sources. Building the Caliphate contextualizes early Fatimid architecture within the wider Mediterranean and Islamic world and demonstrates how rulers manipulated architectural form and urban topographies to express political legitimacy on a global stage.

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