Palace Gardens in Lower Mesopotamia : 8th to 11th Centuries - Safa Mahmoudian

Palace Gardens in Lower Mesopotamia

8th to 11th Centuries

By: Safa Mahmoudian

Hardcover | 30 November 2024

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Gardens were both a setting and showcase for nearly every aspect of social and daily life at the royal court during the early Islamic period in Western Asia. Safa Mahmoudian uses ?a wide range of ?primary source materials including ??contemporary ??Arabic manuscripts, together with archaeological ?reports, aerial ?photographs, and archaeologists' letters ?and diaries.? ?Through close readings of this evidence, Mahmoudian creates a picture of these gardens in their historical, architectural and environmental contexts and examines various factors that influenced their design and placement. In doing so, Mahmoudian adds to our understanding of these gardens and palaces and, ultimately, early Islamic-period court culture as a whole.
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Safa Mahmoudian has unearthed considerable evidence of the gardens of Sawad during the first Islamic centuries to paint a comprehensive picture of these long-overlooked historical landscapes. Through precise analyses, she unravels the layers of architectural, sociocultural, geographical and horticultural significance embedded in these once flourishing royal gardens now largely lost to the desert sands.--Mehrdad Qayyoomi Bidhendi, The Iranian Academy of Art

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