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China's early mosques / Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt.
Series: Edinburg studies in Islamic ArtCopyright date: United Kingdom : Edinburgh University Press, ©2015Description: xxiv, 331 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780748670413
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| AM | PERPUSTAKAAN TUN SERI LANANG | PERPUSTAKAAN TUN SERI LANANG KOLEKSI ISLAM-P. TUN SERI LANANG (ARAS 4) | - | NA6043.S74 ki (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00002180636 |
This book explains how the worship requirements of the mosque and the Chinese architectural system converged. What happens when a monotheistic, aniconic, foreign religion needs a space in which to worship in China, a civilisation with a building tradition that has been largely unchanged for several millennia? The story of this extraordinary convergence begins in the 7th century and continues under the Chinese rule
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