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Terms and conditions applyMiddle East Garden Traditions: Unity and Diversity
Michael Conan
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Format: Book
Pages: 362
Date Published: Sep 2007
Stock Code: 62968
Binding: Paperback
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This book unites new information and surprising results from the last15 years of garden research, at a remove from the cliches of Orientalism. Garden archaeology reveals the economic importance of Judean gardens in Roman times and the visual complexity of gardens created and transformed in Moorish Spain. More contemporary approaches unravel the cultural continuities, variations and differences between gardens in the Middle East since Roman times and in the Islamic world. Scholars present new sources for studies of gardens in India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, the Ottoman world, Judea, Morocco and Moorish Spain. They explore the interplay of conflicting influences, the cultural reception of gardens in religious and mystical societies, and the political uses of gardens, presenting an unexpected diversity of garden forms in all levels of society. The book is well illustrated with photographs, plans and digital reconstructions of vanished gardens.
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