China''s Early Mosques

Klappentext Explains how the worship requirements of the mosque and the Chinese architectural system converged. What happens when a monotheistic, aniconic, foreign religion needs a space in which to worship in China, a civilisation with a building tradition that has been largely unchanged for several millennia? Zusammenfassung Explains how the worship requirements of the mosque and the Chinese architectural system converged. What happens when a monotheistic, aniconic, foreign religion needs a space in which to worship in China, a civilisation with a building tradition that has been largely unchanged for several millennia?

Product details

• Authors: Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 31.08.2015
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture
• EAN: 9780748670413
• ISBN: 978-0-7486-7041-3
• Pages: 368
• Series: Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Art; Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Art