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The Celestial Element, Loai Omran
The Celestial Element, Loai Omran
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Establishing An Arabesque Center In Gamalia, Walid Adham Salem
Establishing An Arabesque Center In Gamalia, Walid Adham Salem
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No abstract provided.
Bahri Mamluk Wooden Ceilings, Jasmin Wardani
Bahri Mamluk Wooden Ceilings, Jasmin Wardani
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Is There An Arab State?, Jeneen Hazem Ezzat
Is There An Arab State?, Jeneen Hazem Ezzat
Theses and Dissertations
The nature of the Arab state has been one that has perplexed many scholars.
A Comparative Study Of Desert Novels Of IbrāHīM Al-KūNī And ʻAbd Al-RahṃAn MunīF, Hala Mohammed Hassan Hassan El Ganayni
A Comparative Study Of Desert Novels Of IbrāHīM Al-KūNī And ʻAbd Al-RahṃAn MunīF, Hala Mohammed Hassan Hassan El Ganayni
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Living Units In Cairene Houses In The Ottoman Period: Towards A New Understanding Of Cairene Domestic Architecture, Ahmed Maher Hassaballah
Living Units In Cairene Houses In The Ottoman Period: Towards A New Understanding Of Cairene Domestic Architecture, Ahmed Maher Hassaballah
Archived Theses and Dissertations
Cairene domestic architecture comprises a variety of housing types, responding to the needs of different socioeconomic classes of society. Of these types, two are studied in detail herein, namely, palaces and mansions of the grandees and middle-class houses. As suggested by Hanna, the latter were divided into separate unequal living units. The study in hand investigates the existence of similar living units in the palaces and mansions'. This is accomplished through analyzing living units in some middle-class houses to determine their structure, types and organization. These characteristics are used to define similar units in palaces and mansions.
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Monumental Quranic Inscriptions On Cairene Religious Monuments, Dina Mahmoud Hamdi Montasser
Monumental Quranic Inscriptions On Cairene Religious Monuments, Dina Mahmoud Hamdi Montasser
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Since Quranic inscriptions dominate the epigraphic decoration of Cairene Islamic religious monuments, the target of this thesis has been to investigate the Quranic inscriptions of some selected religious monuments of each main era of the Islamic history of Cairo: Fatimid, Mamluk and Ottoman. The questions examined are the following: what was the frequency of utilizing Quranic inscriptions compared to other types of inscriptions? What are the common architectural locations of Quranic quotations compared to other types of inscriptions? Regardless of the form of the script, whether naskhi or kufic, what were the common stylistic visual forms of inscriptions on religious …