Manah : an Omani Oasis, an Arabian legacy ; architecture and social history of an Omani settlement / [Soumyen Bandyopadhyay].
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TextPublication details: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2011.Description: 311 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), maps (some col.) ; 28 cmISBN: - 9781846311215 (hbk.)
- 1846311217 (hbk.)
- 720.95353 22
- NA1465.5 .B36 2011
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-305) and index.
ch. 1 Passages into a land-locked island -- ch. 2 Core revealed: our expanding knowledge of ad-Dakhiliyah architecture -- ch. 3 Manah and Harat al-Bilad: setting and townscape -- ch. 4 Mosques of Harat al-Bilad -- ch. 5 Dwellings large and small -- ch. 6 Tribal pattern, settlement structure and the sablah -- ch. 7 Harat al-Bilad: origin, morphology and structure -- ch. 8 Water, purity and places of worship -- ch. 9 From the twilight of cultural memory: the distinctive mosque type of ad-Dakhiliyah -- ch. 10 Topographic conflation in the decorated maharib of Omani mosques -- ch. 11 Privacy and the deconstructed courtyard: dwellings of ad-Dakhiliyah.
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