Sultanate Architecture of Bengal
Author : Khoundkar Alamgir
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,81 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9788174791092
Author : Khoundkar Alamgir
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,81 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9788174791092
Author : Perween Hasan
Publisher : I.B. Tauris
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 18,11 MB
Release : 2023-11-30
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0755653602
Before the Mughal style came to dominate the Islamic architecture of the Indian sub-continent, Bengal and its rulers had developed their own forms. The mosque architecture of the Independent Sultanate period (from the 14th to the 16th centuries) represents the most important element of the Islamic architecture of Bengal. This distinctive regional style drew its inspiration from the indigenous vernacular architecture of Bengal, itself heavily influenced by Hindu/Buddhist temple architecture. The early Muslim architecture of Bangladesh is an important but little studied part of the architectural heritage of the Islamic world and the Indian sub-continent. Perween Hasan's work is a most original contribution to this subject.
Author : Catherine Blanshard Asher
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 34,30 MB
Release : 1992-09-24
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780521267281
Traces the development and spread of architecture under the Mughal emperors who ruled the Indian subcontinent from the early-16th to the mid-19th centuries. The book considers the entire scope of architecture built under the auspices of the imperial Mughals and their subjects.
Author : Unesco
Publisher : UNESCO
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 17,78 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
Author : Richard M. Eaton
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 30,41 MB
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520205079
Eaton ranges over all the important aspects of that community's history, whether political and social, or cultural and religious...This study must rank among the finest contributions to South Asian scholarship to appear for some while.
Author : Fredrick W. Bunce
Publisher :
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 34,14 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
The spread of Islam in India produced some of the most spectacular monuments, the mosques stand as testimony to the great architectural skill and expertise of the Indian subcontinent through centuries and constitute one of the most important aspects of the rich architectural cultural of the region. This volume showcases some 54 important mosques spread across the Indian subcontinent-from Lahore in modern Pakistan to Gaur in modern West Bengal and from Delhi in the north to Kayalpatnam and Bijapur in South India. It mentions the location of the mosques, their history, structure and plan patterns and discusses various elements of the structures in detail: their entrances, pillars, porticoes, type of mihrab and other aspects. It emphasizes the importance of a particular masjid such as its typifying the mosques of a certain period or dynasty and setting the standard for later masjids in some manner. It presents some other plans and proportional elevations in the appendices for a comparative study. An extremely useful list of Muslim rulers of the Indian subcontinent is provided. With maps and drawings of plans of mosques, the book is a painstaking effort to examine the evolution and iconography of the mosque architecture in the region. The volume will be indispensable for scholars and students of Indo-Islamic architecture.
Author : John Cary
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 36,4 MB
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1610917936
The book reveals a new understanding of the ways that design shapes our lives and gives professionals and interested citizens the tools to seek out and demand designs that dignify.
Author : Elizabeth Schotten Merklinger
Publisher : New Delhi : Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 12,77 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
Illustrations: Numerous B/w Illustrations Description: The Mughals ruled a united north India for over three centuries, but the roots of the glorious monuments they built are found in earlier provincial styles of architecture. In this richly illustrated work, Dr. Elizabeth Schotten Merklinger presents the first comprehensive study of the architecture of the Sultanate period. During the pre-Mughal centuries provincial Islamic styles of architecture developed, some of great importance and originality, each a spontaneous movement arising from its respective rulers and the desire to express particular aesthetic ideals. Many factors influenced these regional styles, the most important being the indigenous arts prevailing in the region prior to Islam, the technical ability of the craftsmen, the climatic conditions and the strength of the bond each province had with the capital, Delhi. In Sultanate Architecture of Pre-Mughal India Elizabeth Schotten Merklinger traces the architectural development of each Sultanate. She shows that each provincial style is a synthesis between opposing spiritual and aesthetic concepts faced by the early Muslims in India. Nowhere else in the Islamic world was the clash of values more pronounced. But it is precisely these counteracting forces which released the enormous energy that resulted in the construction of the splendid monuments of the Mughal age. This book evolved out of a series of lectures on Indian Islamic architecture given at the Oriental Institute, Oxford, in 1991. There has been no update on Indo-Islamic architecture since the definitive work, Percy Brown, Indian Architecture: Islamic Period, Bombay, 1956, reprint, 1968.
Author : Andrew Petersen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 29,2 MB
Release : 2002-03-11
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1134613652
The Dictionary of Islamic Architecture provides the fullest range of artistic, technical, archaeological, cultural and biographical data for the entire geographical and chronological spread of Islamic architecture - from West Africa through the Middle East to Indonesia, and from the seventh to the eighteenth centuries of the Common Era. Over 500 entries are arranged alphabetically and fully cross-referenced and indexed to permit easy access to the text and to link items of related interest. Four main categories of subject matter are explored: * dynastic and regional overviews * individual site descriptions * biographical entries * technical definitions Over 100 relevant plans, sketch maps, photographs and other illustrations complement and illuminate the entries, and the needs of the reader requiring further information are met by individual entry bibliographies.
Author : David McCutchion
Publisher :
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 22,88 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780691040103
The Description for this book, Brick Temples of Bengal: From the Archives of David McCutchion, will be forthcoming.