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The Calcutta Review An Illustrated Monthly (Third Series) August 1925

1925

The two outstanding features were the courtyard shape of the structure and the studious care taken when fixing the direction of prayer; and these features of the first mosque remained for a century the characteristic features of the religious art of the Islamic Empire. [...] A comisrison of the plaster-work of Ihn Tulun with the Coptic carvings preserved in the Cairo Museum of Antiquities and those from the tomb of Ayn-es-Sirs in the Arab Museum shows clearly the source of the floral decoration which belongs to the Byzantine School of Syria and Egypt. [...] The difference between the soft flexity of this work done with a tool in the moist plaster and the hard mechanical effect of the designs impressed with a mould in the Alhambra is striking; it is the difference between the artist and the artisan tin the simple rounded capitals of the engaged columns built at the corner of each arch there is a rudimentary bud and flower pattern and on either sid [...] Although the immediate.influence of Mesopotamia determined the character of the Ibn Tulun Mosque we cannot explain the continuance of the pointed arch and its further development into keel-arch ' and the use of niches such as we find in the Mosque of Al-Azhar and other buildings of t holt Fatimide period except upon the assumption of the direct influence of the immediate surroundings. [...] The olderpart of the façade (only the lower part of which goes back to the XIth century the upper evidently belongs to the XlIth and XIIIth) was copied by the architect of the front of the parish church of Empoli (1093).
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Pages
171
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120137
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-i unknown view
Muslim North Africa and Spain
175-207 S. Bukhsh view
Espionage in the Hindu System of Administration
208-215 Hemchandra Ray view
Evolution of Sanskrit Grammar
216-228 Prabhatchandra Chakravarty view
Idealism and the Self
229-253 H. Stephen view
Step Aside
254-256 Amritalal Bose view
Some Currency Lessons of the War
257-272 B. Rau view
The Price of Cotton-Goods in India in the Seventeenth Century
273-279 Satishchandra Sen view
The Door of Auspicious Sight
280-281 Abanindranath Tagore view
Asutosh and Chittaranjan: A Study
282-290 Nripendrachandra Banerji view
The Sikh Masands
291-292 Indu Banerjee view
The Ethics of Genius
293-310 Umeshchandra Bhattacharyya view
Civilization as Seen by a Chinese
311-316 Chi Chu view
Reviews
317-322 unknown view
Our Critics
323-331 Ajax view
Ourselves
332-344 unknown view

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