Research Catalog

Title

Middle East garden traditions : unity and diversity : questions, methods and resources in a multicultural perspective / edited by Michel Conan.

Author

Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture (31st : 2007)

Publication

Washington, D.C. : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection ; [Washington, D.C.] : Spacemaker Press ; [Cambridge, Mass.] : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2007.

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

• Conan, Michel
• Dumbarton Oaks.
• Freer Gallery of Art
• Arthur M. Sackler Gallery (Smithsonian Institution)

Description

363 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), maps, plans; 27 cm.

Subject

• Islamic gardens > History > Congresses
• Gardens > Islamic countries > History > Congresses

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings
• History
• Conference papers and proceedings.
• History.

Note

• "Held at the Freer and Sackler Galleries April 27-28, 2007, co-organized by Dumbarton Oaks and the Freer and Sackler Galleries"--P. preceding t.p.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Learning from Middle East garden traditions / Michel Conan -- New perspectives for garden archaeology. The rose and the balsam : the garden as a source of perfume and medicine / Yizhar Hirschfeld -- Soil improvement and agricultural pesticides in antiquity : examples from archaeological research in Israel / Yotam Tepper -- An approach to the visual analysis of the gardens of Al-Andalus / Antonio Almagro -- Ornamental plants in agricultural and botanical treatises from Al-Andalus / Expiración García Sánchez and J. Estaban Hernández Bermejo -- The political uses of gardens. The garden strategy of the Almohad sultans and their successors (1157-1900) / Mohammed El Faĭz translated by Maryrica Ortiz Lottman -- Princely Safavid gardens : stage for rituals of imperial display and political legitimacy / Mahvash Alemi -- The royal gardens of Farahābād and the fall of Shah Sultan Husayn revisited / Jean-Do Brignoli -- My garden is Hindustan : the Mughal Padshah's realization of a political metaphor / Ebba Koch -- Questions about the political significance of Mughal garden waterworks / James L. Wescoat Jr. -- Cultural receptions of gardens. Matrakçi Nasuh and Evliya Çelebi: perspectives on ottoman gardens (1534-1682) / Nurhan Atasoy -- Unity and diversity of Mughal garden experiences / Abdul Rehman and Shama Anbrine -- Critical discussion of cultural influences. Gardens at the Kağithane commons during the tulip period (1718-1730) / B. Deniz Çaliş -- Rajput gardens and landscapes / Jennifer Joffe and D. Fairchild Ruggle -- Exploring the limits of garden traditions. From the Andalusí garden to the Andalusian garden : remnants and re-creation / José Tito Rojo and Manuel Casares Porcel -- Gardens of Afghanistan / Benedict Bull.

ISBN

• 9780884023296
• 088402329X

LCCN

^^2007009557

OCLC

• 85830776
• SCSB-11137752

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library