The Umayyad Mosque of Damascus ; (Record no. 986)

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003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER
control field PMNP
005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION
control field 20230728160155.0
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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781909942455
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE
Original cataloging agency PMNP
Language of cataloging eng
Transcribing agency Kutubkhanah Diraja
041 1# - LANGUAGE CODE
Language code of text/sound track or separate title eng
-- ara
Language code of original ara
050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number NA5989.7.D34
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
9 (RLIN) 1635
Personal name George, Alain,
Dates associated with a name 1979-
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title The Umayyad Mosque of Damascus ;
Remainder of title Art, Faith and Empire in Early Islam /
Statement of responsibility, etc. Alain George
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. London :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Gingko,
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2021
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 261 pages :
Other physical details illustrations (some color), facsimiles, plans
Dimensions 30 cm
490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT
Series statement Gingko Library Art Series
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc. note Includes bibliographical references (pages 246-256) and index
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note Introduction: A day in the life of Damascus -- Palimpsests in stone and layered texts: the multiple histories of the Umayyad Mosque -- Tangled memories: the temple, church, and first mosque -- The politics of buildings: the destruction of the Church and construction of the mosque -- Silenced and imagined pasts: the church in the fabric of the Umayyad Mosque -- A vast expanse of splendour: towards a reconstruction of the Umayyad Mosque -- 'Jewelled embellishments dazzle': the mosque and Umayyad aesthetics -- Appendix1: Three Umayyad poems about the Mosque of Damascus and the destruction of the church -- Appendix 2: The description of the Great Mosque of Damascus by al-Muqaddasī in the tenth century
520 8# - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. The Umayyad Mosque of Damascus is one of the oldest continuously used religious sites in the world. The mosque we see today was built in 705 CE by the Umayyad caliph al-Walid on top of a fourth-century Christian church that had been erected over a temple of Jupiter. Incredibly, despite the recent war, the mosque has remained almost unscathed, but over the centuries has been continuously rebuilt after damage from earthquakes and fires. In this comprehensive biography of the Umayyad Mosque, Alain George explores a wide range of sources to excavate the dense layers of the mosque's history, also uncovering what the structure looked like when it was first built with its impressive marble and mosaic-clad walls. George incorporates a range of sources, including new information he found in three previously untranslated poems written at the time the mosque was built, as well as in descriptions left by medieval scholars. He also looks carefully at the many photographs and paintings made by nineteenth-century European travellers, particularly those who recorded the building before the catastrophic fire of 1893
546 ## - LANGUAGE NOTE
Language note Appendices in Arabic with parallel English translations
600 30 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
9 (RLIN) 1636
Personal name Umayyad dynasty
610 20 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME
9 (RLIN) 1637
Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element Jāmiʻ al-Umawī al-Kabīr (Damascus, Syria)
Form subdivision Pictorial works
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
9 (RLIN) 765
Topical term or geographic name entry element Mosques
Geographic subdivision Syria
-- Damascus
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
9 (RLIN) 1638
Topical term or geographic name entry element Pictorial works
830 #0 - SERIES ADDED ENTRY--UNIFORM TITLE
9 (RLIN) 1639
Uniform title Gingko Library art series
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Source of classification or shelving scheme
Koha item type Books
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          Perbadanan Muzium Negeri Pahang Perbadanan Muzium Negeri Pahang Open Shelf Collection 07/28/2023 NA5989.7.D34 G46 2021 0000001329 07/28/2023 07/28/2023 Books