Gardens of Renaissance Europe and the Islamic Empires: Encounters and Confluences

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Review “In an age when "cultural appropriation" is au courant, this book begins to fill a void and is timely as well. The ten essays are all scholarly and magnificently documented. . . . Highly recommended.”—I. Richman, Choice“This volume offers a fine array of historical connections between European and Islamic gardens, critiquing those geographic constructs while exploring them in rich detail. It brings innovative lines of Islamic garden research into dialogue with larger and longer-term histories of European gardens. These essays address a major need in the field of garden and landscape history, with new findings and interpretations.”—James L. Wescoat Jr., coeditor of Mughal Gardens: Sources, Places, Representations, and Prospects “This collection of scholarly, yet readable, well-illustrated essays closely examines how Islamic and European garden traditions interacted and influenced one another.”—Tom Verde, Aramco World Read more About the Author Mohammad Gharipour is Associate Professor, School of Architecture and Planning, at Morgan State University and Director and Founding Editor of the International Journal of Islamic Architecture. He has published eight other books, most recently Contemporary Urban Landscapes of the Middle East. Read more