Islamic Gardens and Landscapes

A comprehensive survey of Islamic gardens, from antiquity through to the present.

List of contents

Preface

Chapter 1: The Islamic Landscape

Place and Memory

Chapter 2: Making the Desert Bloom

Transforming an Inhospitable Earth

Chapter 3: The Science of Gardening

Agricultural and Botanical Manuals

Chapter 4: Organizing the Earth

Cross-axial Gardens and the Chahar Bagh

Chapter 5: Trees and Plants

Botanical Evidence from Texts and Archaeology

Chapter 6: Representations of Gardens and Landscape

Imagery in Manuscript Paintings, Textiles, and Other Media

Chapter 7: Imaginary Gardens

Gardens in Fantasy and Literature

Chapter 8: The Garden as Paradise

The Historical Beginnings of Paradisiac Iconography

Chapter 9: The Here and Hereafter

Mausolea and Tomb Gardens

Chapter 10: A Garden in Landscape

The Taj Mahal and Its Precursors

Chapter 11: Religion and Culture

The Adoption of Islamic Garden Culture by Non-Muslims

List of Gardens and SitesSpain

Sicily

Morocco

Algeria

Tunisia

Egypt

Turkey

Syria and Region

Oman

Iraq

Iran

Central Asia

Pakistan

India

United States

Glossary

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Acknowledgments

About the author

D. Fairchild Ruggles is Professor and the Debra L. Mitchell Chair in Landscape History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the author of Gardens, Landscape, and Vision in the Palaces of Islamic Spain.

Product details

• Authors: D Fairchild Ruggles, D. Fairchild Ruggles
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2022
• EAN: 9780812225143
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-2514-3
• No. of pages: 312
• Series: Penn Studies in Landscape Arch; Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture