Baths, art and architecture - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE - مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" Baths, art and architecture - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Yegül, Fikret K.

Document Type	:	AL
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1060966
Doc. NO	:	ALei1363
Main Entry	:	Yegül, Fikret K.
Title & Author	:	Baths, art and architecture - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Yegül, Fikret K.
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Note	:	(2,646 words)
Abstract	:	Bathing and public baths (sing. ḥammām ) were accepted and became popular from the early years of Islam, a fact that has often been explained by the importance Islam accords to physical cleanliness and ritual purity. At the advent of Islam, public baths were already an established institution in Roman and Byzantine cities across the Mediterranean, and this was at least as important a factor in accounting for the continued popularity of baths among Muslims in these areas. Many baths in the Islamic world display refined architecture and sometimes unusual art .
Subject	:	Islam.
electronic file name	:	ALei1363.pdf