FIGURE 4.11 A 6th-century mosaic from the Church of Saint George in Madaba,...

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TitleMosaic floor (Madaba map)

Creator roleMosaicist

Creation date500–600

Creation date (description)6th century AD

Object typeMosaic

MaterialsMosaic tile

LocationChurch of Saint George, Madaba, Jordan

SubjectsJerusalem--MapsJerusalem--Buildings, structures, etc.Islamic mosaics

StatusMosiac map, detail showing the city of Jerusalem

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Chapter 1. The Formation of an Islamic City

Oleg Grabar

The Shape of the Holy: Early Islamic Jerusalem

By 600 C.E. the disputes among ecclesiastical authorities about the value and justification of developing Jerusalem as a Christian city were probably for the most part forgotten. But the arguments used by an opponent, the bishop of Caesarea Eusebius (260–336), a contemporary of Constantine’s...

Author

Oleg Grabar

PublisherPrinceton University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.21-51

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-100040&redirecttoanchor=67241

Chapter subject tags:Islamic architecture--Middle EastJerusalem--HistoryQubbat al-Ṣakhrah (Mosque : Jerusalem)Jerusalem--In ChristianityMadaba mapJudaism--History--Medieval and early modern period, 425-1789Church of the Holy Sepulchre (Jerusalem)Temple Mount (Jerusalem)Masjid al-Aqṣá (Jerusalem)

4. Construction, Destruction, and Concealment under the “Mad Caliph”

Jennifer A. Pruitt

Description: Building the Caliphate: Construction, Destruction, and Sectarian Identity in Early...

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

In the middle years of al-Hakim’s reign, from 1007 to 1013, we encounter the two great enigmas of his architectural project—the construction of the austere bastions that...

Author

Jennifer A. Pruitt

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.95-125

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00258.005

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Chapter subject tags:Architecture, FatimidCaliphsChurch of the Holy Sepulchre (Jerusalem)Ḥākim bi-Amr Allāh, Caliph of Egypt, 985-approximately 1021Jāmiʻ al-Ḥākim (Cairo, Egypt)Qubbat al-Ṣakhrah (Mosque : Jerusalem)

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