Karakhanid art and architecture

by McClary, Richard Piran

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Few examples of Karakhanid (Qarakhānid) art and architecture remain from the great many brick structures built across Central Asia (the Karakhanids ruled 382–609/992–1212). The surviving buildings are in Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Kazakhstan. Tombs, minarets, a mosque façade, a namāzgāh (place of open-air prayer), and a caravanserai portal survive, as well as the many lost structures known from archaeological excavations and textual sources. Illustration 1. Interior stucco decoration Shāh Fāzi…

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Few examples of Karakhanid (Qarakhānid) art and architecture remain from the great many brick structures built across Central Asia (the Karakhanids ruled 382–609/992–1212). The surviving buildings are in Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Kazakhstan. Tombs, minarets, a mosque façade, a namāzgāh (place of open-air prayer), and a caravanserai portal survive, as well as the many lost structures known from archaeological excavations and textual sources. Illustration 1. Interior stucco decoration Shāh Fāzil tomb (constructed 447–51/1055–9), Safid Buland, Kyrgyzstan. Photograph courtesy of Richard P. McClary. The earliest

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  • Publisher(s):Brill
  • Language:eng

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  • wc:ALei2812

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eng Islam

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McClary, Richard Piran

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