Research Catalog

Title

Islamic architecture in South Asia : Pakistan, India, Bangladesh / Ahmad Nabi Khan ; foreword by R. E. Mortimer Wheeler.

Author

Khan, Ahmad Nabi.

Publication

Karachi : Oxford University Press, 2003.

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Description

xxviii, 310 p. : ill. (some col.), maps; 29 cm.

Summary

"Muslim contribution towards evolving and perpetuating a distinctive style of architecture in the South Asian subcontinent has been epoch-making. Different and divergent from its local counterpart, the style was essentially a synthesized assimilation of foreign as well as local elements, which together created marvels both of religious and secular buildings. While foreign elements were introduced by the Arabs, Persians, Turks, and the Central Asians, local characteristics were borrowed from the Hindu-Jaina temples and Buddhist monastic establishments. The Muslims build their habitats according to the dictates of their faith, their taste and resources, and in accordance with the prevailing climatic conditions, availability of materials, and proficiency of technical know-how." "During the last hundred years several art and architectural historians have described and evaluated the birth, adolescence, and maturity of these styles. However, a cumulative assessment based on the study of the latest material, collected and collated as a result of the exploration and excavation of several archaeological sites and surveys of hitherto unknown or little known standing monuments, was yet to be attempted." "The present book gives a resume of these efforts and researches, putting it in chronological perspective and geographical sequence. The material researched and illustrated by the archaeologists and architectural historians and published in the annual reports, memoirs and journals of the old Archaeological Survey of India and the Pakistan Department of Archaeology, has been generously and extensively adapted and included in the text. For the first time, after analytical treatment it has been presented in order to give a comprehensive picture of Islamic architecture in South Asia, up to the time of the decline and extinction of the grand Moghul Empire."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Islamic architecture > Bangladesh
• Islamic architecture > India
• Islamic architecture > Pakistan

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-302) and index.

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• committed to retain

Contents

Arab architecture -- Ghaznavid architecture -- Architecture of the early Turkish sultanate -- Naked brick architecture -- Central Asian contribution -- Khalji architecture -- Tughluq style -- Sayyid and Lodi architecture -- Regional contributions -- Architecture of the Dekhani sultanates -- Wooden architecture of the north -- Suri architecture -- Moghul architecture -- Architecture of later independent states -- Epilogue.

ISBN

0195790650

LCCN

^^2003341517

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Harvard Library