ISBN:
9780897571005
Language:
English
Pages:
xvi, 336 pages :
,
color illustration, maps ;
,
29 cm.
Year of publication:
2017
Series Statement:
The Annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research volume 72
Series Statement:
Manar al-Athar monograph 4
Series Statement:
Annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research ;
Series Statement:
Manar al-Athar monograph ;
DDC:
720.95691/44
Keywords:
Beit Farhi (Damascus, Syria)
;
Palaces
;
Courtyard houses
;
Architecture, Domestic
;
Jewish architecture
;
Damascus (Syria) Buildings, structures, etc.
Description / Table of Contents:
The Farhi family and the Jewish community of Damascus in the 18th and 19th centuries -- Monumental courtyard houses in Ottoman Damascus and Syria -- Overview of the architecture of Bayt Farhi -- The Bayt Farhi inscriptions / by Ezra Ashkenazie -- Other 19th-century high status Jewish houses and their evolution -- The Barrani courtyard -- The Juwwani, middle, and service courtyards.
