Middle East Garden Traditions: Unity and Diversity : Questions, Methods and Resources in a Multicultural Perspective

Description

This book unites new information and surprising results from the last fifteen years of garden research, at a remove from the clichés of Orientalism. Garden archaeology reveals the economic importance of Judean gardens in Roman times and the visual complexity of gardens created and transformed in Moorish Spain. More contemporary approaches unravel the cultural continuities, variations, and differences between gardens in the Middle East since Roman times and in the Islamic world.

• Author: Michel Conan, Dumbarton Oaks
• Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks
• Published: 2007
• Pages: 378
• ISBN-13: 9780884023296