The Walled Arab City in Literature, Architecture and History - The Living Medina in the Maghrib (Paperback, annotated edition)

This book offers a multidisciplinary approach to the medina, the traditional walled Arab city of North Africa. The medina becomes a concrete case study for comparative explorations of general questions about the social use of urban space by opening up fields of research at the intersection of history, comparative cultural studies, architecture and anthropology. Essays by American, European and North African scholars demonstrate a variety of sources and theoretical approaches now being used in writing historical narratives framed within the city space. They shed light on recent studies by anthropologists regarding social praxis within the urban context, and analyze the urban experience of the medina and the casbah as they are represented in visual and material culture.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	History and Society in the Islamic World
Release date:	September 2001
First published:	2001
Editors:	Susan Slyomovics
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 10mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	172
Edition:	annotated edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-7146-8215-0
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Architecture > Theory of architecture Books > Humanities > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Urban communities Books > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General
LSN:	0-7146-8215-2
Barcode:	9780714682150

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