Ozymandias Syndrome
Robert Irwin, 24 August 1995
Islamic Architecture
by Robert Hillenbrand.
Edinburgh, 645 pp., £49.50, November 1994,0 7486 0479 0 Show More
by Robert Hillenbrand.
Edinburgh, 645 pp., £49.50, November 1994,
The Art and Architecture of Islam 1250-1800
by Sheila Blair and Jonathan Bloom.
Yale, 348 pp., £45, August 1994,0 300 05888 8 Show More
by Sheila Blair and Jonathan Bloom.
Yale, 348 pp., £45, August 1994,
The Mosque: History, Architectural Development and Regional Diversity
edited by Martin Frishman and Hassan-Uddin Khan.
Thames and Hudson, 288 pp., £36, November 1994,0 500 34133 8 Show More
edited by Martin Frishman and Hassan-Uddin Khan.
Thames and Hudson, 288 pp., £36, November 1994,
Iznik: The Pottery of Ottoman Turkey
by Nurhan Atasoy and Julian Raby.
Alexandria Press/Laurence King, 384 pp., £60, July 1994,1 85669 054 7 Show More
by Nurhan Atasoy and Julian Raby.
Alexandria Press/Laurence King, 384 pp., £60, July 1994,
“... ruins became teaching aids in a series of lectures on the sinfulness and transience of tyranny. Robert Hillenbrand’s meditations on Eastern ruins may similarly lead his readers to thoughts of mortality and transience. Many of the buildings he studies in Islamic Architecture have an overt function – whether prayer, teaching, interment or pleasure ... ”
