Bridge

by Warner, Nicholas

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Historic bridges are found throughout the Islamic world. The most common designations reflect varying etymologies: kubrī , qanṭara , or jisr (Arabic), köprü (Turkish), and pul (Persian and Urdu). Extant bridges are almost entirely arched masonry constructions. Cantilever or beam bridges made of timber survive only in the textual record and the use of suspension bridges never seems to have spread from China farther west than Afghanistan. The traveller Ibn Baṭṭūṭa, writing in the eighth/fourteent…

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Historic bridges are found throughout the Islamic world. The most common designations reflect varying etymologies: kubrī , qanṭara , or jisr (Arabic), köprü (Turkish), and pul (Persian and Urdu). Extant bridges are almost entirely arched masonry constructions. Cantilever or beam bridges made of timber survive only in the textual record and the use of suspension bridges never seems to have spread from China farther west than Afghanistan. The traveller Ibn Baṭṭūṭa, writing in the eighth/fourteenth century, describes a remarkable timber drawbridge over the Nile at al-Ashmūnayn (al-Ushmūnayn), but a

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  • Publisher(s):Brill
  • Language:eng

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  • wc:ALei1533

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eng Islam

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Warner, Nicholas

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