Islamic Architecture Through Western Eyes

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Islamic Architecture Through Western Eyes is written by Michael Greenhalgh and published by . It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9004540865 (ISBN 10) and 9789004540866 (ISBN 13).

This volume, the second of three, offers an anthology of Western descriptions of Islamic religious buildings in Syria, Egypt and North Africa, mostly from the seventeenth to early twentieth centuries, taken from travel books and ambassadorial reports. (The third volume will deal with Islamic palaces around the Mediterranean.) As travel became easier and cheaper, thanks to better roads, steamships, hotels and railways, tourist numbers increased, museums accumulated eastern treasures, illustrated journals proliferated, and photography provided accurate data. All three deal with the impact of Western trade, taste and imports on the East, and examine the encroachment of westernised modernism.