Constructions of power and piety in medieval Aleppo
In the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, the Ayyubid dynasty brought unprecedented architectural development to Aleppo, the most important city in medieval Syria. While early Islamic empires usually expressed their grandeur by founding new cities with vast extra-urban palaces, the Ayyubids asserted their power by "modernizing" existing towns
Print Book, English, ©1997
Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park, ©1997