"Building the Caliphate: Construction, Destruction, and Sectarian Identity in Early Fatimid Architecture"

Type:

Book

Published:

2020

Publisher:

Yale University Press

Building the Caliphate: Construction, Destruction, and Sectarian Identity in Early Fatimid ArchitectureJennifer A. PruittThis groundbreaking study investigates the early architecture of the Fatimids, an Ismaili Shi'i Muslim dynasty that dominated the Mediterranean world from the 10th to the 12th century. This period, considered a golden age of multicultural and interfaith tolerance, witnessed the construction of iconic structures, including Cairo's al-Azhar and al-Hakim mosques and crucial renovations to Jerusalem's Dome of the Rock and Aqsa Mosque. However, it also featured large-scale destruction of churches under the notorious reign of al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, most notably the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem. Jennifer A. Pruitt offers a new interpretation of these and other key moments in the history of Islamic architecture, using newly available medieval primary sources by Ismaili writers and rarely considered Arabic Christian sources. Building the Caliphate contextualizes early Fatimid architecture within the wider Mediterranean and Islamic world and demonstrates how rulers manipulated architectural form and urban topographies to express political legitimacy on a global stage.*This eBook is available exclusively on the A&AePortal.*AuthorJennifer A. PruittPublisherYale University PressPrint publication date February 2020 (in print)Print ISBN 9780300246827EISBN 9780300264029Copyright© 2020 by Jennifer A. PruittIllustrations 90Print Status in print Publisher (in …

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