by
Ghazi Bisheh, Fawzi Zayadine, Mohammad al-Asad
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Far from abolishing the freedom of local cults and undermining existing town plans, the Umayyads acknowledged the aesthetic language already in place on their arrival in Jordan (661), and re-invented its forms with an astonishing freedom of expression. Brief as their hegemony was (less than 90 years)...