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

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" Mosul architecture - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Nováček, Karel

Document Type	:	AL
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1062751
Doc. NO	:	ALei3148
Main Entry	:	Nováček, Karel
Title & Author	:	Mosul architecture - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Nováček, Karel
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Note	:	(930 words)
Abstract	:	The distinctive architecture of Mosul represented an essential part of the city’s cultural heritage, but almost all examples of the most important early architecture were deliberately destroyed in 2014–7 by radicals of the so-called Islamic State (ISIS, ISIL, Daesh). From an archaeological perspective, Mosul has always been overshadowed by its more famous ancestor, Assyrian Nineveh, situated on the opposite bank of the Tigris. Although several travellers in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, such as Carsten Niebuhr (d. 1815), James S. Buckingham (d. 1855), and E. A. Wallis
Subject	:	Islam.
electronic file name	:	ALei3148.pdf