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

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" Gaza, art and architecture - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Sadeq, Moain

Document Type	:	AL
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1061718
Doc. NO	:	ALei2115
Main Entry	:	Sadeq, Moain
Title & Author	:	Gaza, art and architecture - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Sadeq, Moain
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Note	:	(2,641 words)
Abstract	:	Gaza ’s location on the land route “al-darb al-sulṭāni” (“the sultan’s way”) between Egypt and al-Shām (Greater Syria) made its architecture and art a melting pot of various architectural and decorative elements, adapted to the city’s particular spatial, environmental, and geographic settings. Almost all the historic buildings are located within the former city walls above the dwellings of Roman-Byzantine Gaza (Sadeq, The city of Gaza; Glucker) and in the adjacent al-Shujāʿiyya neighbourhood, on the eastern foot of the old city mound. We know
Subject	:	Islam.
electronic file name	:	ALei2115.pdf