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- Title
Exterior vs. interior in early Maghribi mosques.
- Authors
Bloom, Jonathan M.
- Abstract
Early Islamic religious architecture in North Africa displays a marked change from earlier Classical and Christian buildings in their general neglect of exteriors in favour of interior (i.e., courtyard) façades. This feature may be due partly to the nature of Islamic worship, as it was common to virtually all early mosques, yet builders in the central and eastern lands of Islam soon began to adopt such exteriorizing features as domes, towers, and colourful decoration. Maghribi builders, however, maintained their preference for modest exteriors for many centuries, mostly focusing decoration on interior façades and spaces, and differentiating it from much Islamic architecture elsewhere.
- Subjects
MOSQUE design &; construction; ISLAMIC architecture; FACADES; MINARETS; MIHRABS
- Publication
Libyan Studies, 2022, Vol 53, p161
- ISSN
0263-7189
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/lis.2022.7