Novácek / Melcák / Beránek Mosul after Islamic State

The Quest for Lost Architectural Heritage
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-3-030-62636-5
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 352 Seiten

Reihe: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies

The book examines the destruction of the architectural heritage in Mosul perpetrated by Islamic State between 2014 and 2017. It identifies which structures were attacked, the ideological rationale behind the destruction, and the significance of the lost monuments in the context of Mosul’s urban development and the architectural history of the Middle East. This methodologically innovative work fills an important gap in the study of both current radical movements and the medieval Islamic architecture of Northern Iraq.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Novácek, Karel

Melcák, Miroslav

Beránek, Ondrej

Starková, Lenka

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. A City Destroyed.- 2. A City Explored.- 3. A City Contextualized.- 4. Epilogue: A City Resurrected?.

Über Autor(innen)

Karel Novác?ek is Associate Professor of Medieval Archaeology at the Palacký University at Olomouc.

Miroslav Melc?ák is a research fellow at the Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague.

Ondr?ej Beránek is Director of the Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences. 

Lenka Starková is Assistant Professor of Landscape Archaeology at the University of West Bohemia Pilsen. 

Lucie Pospíšilová (aka Nyx Alexander Design) is a freelance graphic designer and 3D artist.