8 Originality and Innovation in Syrian Woodwork of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries

Tabbaa, Yasser

doi:10.1163/9789004279667_010

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“…The pyramidal covering of the muqarnas cell dome, described as spectacular by Tabbaa, only allowed for windows in the base of the structure. 65 The exterior skin of the roof was originally glazed, but no evidence of such an aesthetic remained at the time of destruction, largely as a result of the exterior having been repeatedly plastered over. 66 The use of glazed tiles on the roof, represents, along with the tripartite division of the external façades and the use of muqarnas cells for the internal roof, another point of connection with the funerary architecture of the Khw razm Sh hs at Kunya Urgench, in Central Asia, over fifteen hundred kilometres to the northeast.…”

Section: Southwest Façadementioning

confidence: 99%

REMEMBERING THE IMĀM YAḤYĀ IBN AL-QĀSIMMASHHADIN MOSUL

McClary

2017

Iraq

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This article consists of a detailed account of the mashhad of Imām Yaḥyā ibn al-Qāsim. The square-plan building, constructed on the cliff edge above the southern bank of the Tigris in the citadel of Mosul in c. 637/1239, was destroyed in an act of cultural terrorism by ISIS on 23 July 2014. This is a study of the work of earlier scholars on the building, a reassessment of the structure and its regional context, and a number of hypotheses regarding the original appearance of the tomb. In addition, the wide-ranging sources of the formal and decorative elements of the building are examined. The mashhad was the most richly ornamented of the medieval tombs in Iraq which had survived into the modern era, yet it had not been comprehensively studied in over a century. The remaining untranslated inscriptions are given in full, adding useful new information to the discussion regarding the important distinction between the ʿAlids versus Shīʿī associations of the building and its patron. Drawing on the limited published and archival images of the building, the internal appearance is reconstructed, and a series of new architectural plans and elevations are provided in order to preserve the memory of this important structure.

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Section: Southwest Façadementioning

confidence: 99%