Introduction to Islamic Architecture
This systematic overview of Islamic architecture is based on an independent
objective research by the architect Amjad B. Prochazka.
The series about islamic architecture presents the unique architectural
building forms based on local transformations through different
periods in 96 countries of Arabic and Non-arabic world. The book is
geared toward architects and theoriticians, art historians, orientalists
and students in these branches and to demanding travelers to Arabic
countries as a helpful guide as well. Each of the six volumes is an
independent opus and presents general overview while focusing on special
architectural phenomena or element. Each book provides many
architectural drawings including layouts, sections and is completed
with historical tablets and photographs, some of them published for
the first time. In English with arabic resume.
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Introduction to Islamic Architecture
By: Amjad B. Prochazka, 156 pg., 1133 ill., 27/27 cm, paperback,
$ 19.90 + postage
Survey of Islamic building types and their historical development.
Typology of mosques, mausoleums, palaces, madrasas etc.; Arch
and arcade; Islamic vaults; Tromps, pendentives and squinches;
Ornamental art, Arabic characters and calligraphy; Iconoclasm;
Problem of originality; First recorded Islamic structures, etc.
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Determinants of Islamic Architecture
By: Amjad B. Prochazka, 168 pg., 440 ill., 27/27 cm, hard cover, $
24.90 + postage
Terminology and definition of Islamic architecture; Origins of
architectural forms and evolution of styles; The role of Islamic
building arts in the history of the world culture; Reasons for
neglect of Islamic architecture; Relation between Islamic building
art and Byzantine, Georgian, Armenian, Persian, Berber,
Nomadic, Iberian, Indian and pre-islamic Arabian architecture;
Periodisation; Islamic architecture in danger.
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Mosques
By: Amjad B. Prochazka, 168 pg., 1133 ill., 27/27 cm, paperback,
$ 24.90 + postage
Typology, classification and types of mosques; Earliest recorded
mosques; The Central Mosque in Makka; Prophet’s Mosque;
Portraits of he famous mosques; Al-Aqsá and the Dome of the
Rock in Jerusalem; Minaret, mihráb, minbar riwáq, dakka,
kursi;
Ritual puriofy and ablution; Quibla; The mosque in the city;
Construction principles of minarets; Ziyada; Mosques in
al-Madina, Djerba, Sudan, Rumania, Tatarstan, Malaysia,
al-Bahrain, Turkistan, India, Sahara region, Maghrib, Spain.
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Khawarizm
By: Amjad B. Prochazka, 168 pg., 48 colour ill., 27/27cm, hard
cover, $ 24.90 + postage
An unknown civilization on the river Amu in Turkey, comparable
with the other cultures on great subtropical rivers. History of the
capital Gurganj (now Kunya Urgench) and the city of Khiwa, the
best entirely preserved reservation of islamic architecture. Table
of dynasties, events, sources, buildings from antiquity untill now;
Index of monuments; Many plans, glossary, literature; In English
and Arabic.
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Bukhárá - Ádharbaydján
By : Amjad B. Prochazka, 120 pg., colour pictures, 27/27 cm,
hard cover, $ 22.90 + postage
The greatest Islamic city in Thurkistan and Central Asia with over
400 monumets from different periods; Description of the history
of the city with unique technical documentation; Description of
the main historical buildings; Index of all architectural
monumets; Glossary, literature, many rare colour photographs;
In English and Arabic (full text).
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Islamic arches
By: Amjad B. Prochazka, 72 pg., colour pictures, 27/27 cm, hard
cover, $ 18.90 + postage
The most remarkable elements of Islamic building art are its
arches. The book analyses round and horse-shoe arches, two,
three and more-centres arches, eliptic and combined arches and
documents it on numerous examples Impact of Isalmic arch on
non-Muslim architectural streams; The problem of pointed arch;
Islamic arch and contemporary revivalism.
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