Middle East garden traditions : unity and diversity : questions, methods and resources in a multicultural perspective

Körperschaft: Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture Washington, D.C.)
Dumbarton Oaks
Freer Gallery of Art
Arthur M. Sackler Gallery (Smithsonian Institution)
Weitere Verfasser: Conan, Michel
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Washington, D.C. : [Washington, D.C.] : [Cambridge, Mass.] : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection ; Spacemaker Press ; Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2007.
Umfang/Format: 363 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), maps, plans ; 27 cm.
Schlagworte:
iDAI.gazetteer: Süd- /Südostasien
Online Zugang: Table of contents only
Inhaltsangabe:
  • 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.