Buildings & Cities
Qasr al-Hayr al-Gharbi: The Epic of Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik
قصر الحير الغربي: ملحمة هشام بن عبد الملك
Ten chapters on the desert estate the Umayyad caliph Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik built between Damascus and Palmyra in 727, with its palace, khan, bath, dam, canal and orchard, its painted walls, the 1936 excavations of Daniel Schlumberger and the facade later rebuilt in a Damascus museum.
- Format
- PDF ebook
- Languages
- Arabic and English
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- Buildings & Cities
