THE ORIGINS AND FUNCTIONS OF ISLAMIC DOMESTIC COURTYARDS

This book discusses the phenomenon of the courtyard in lslamic domestic architecture, focusing on the issues of its origins and diverse functions. The book treats the phenomenon of lslamic domestic courtyards as a cultural, environmental, structural, and above all, religious one, because it is the message of Islam that presided, over the inception and proliferation of that -later became known as the lslamic domestiC courtyard. indeed, there were many other factcir’s17at’i play, however, lslam with the hierarchy of its standards and morals was the sole force that furnished the lslamic domestic courtyard with both its essence and identity, rendering the indigenous geographical, climatic, cultural and other inherited factors and features rather ancillary.

• ISBN 983‘3355’20’9
• AUTHOR: SPAHIC OMER
• INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC INIVERSITY PRESS