- Title Pages
- Frontispiece
- Figures
- Series Editor's Foreword
- Preface
- Maps
- Introduction
- Chapter One The History of Scholarship and the Nature of the Problem
- Chapter Two The <i>Adhan</i>, the <i>Miʾdhana</i> and the <i>Ṣawmaʿa</i>
- Chapter Three <i>Manāras</i> and <i>Manārs</i>
- Chapter Four The Mosque Tower
- Chapter Five Why were Towers Added to Mosques?
- Chapter Six The Minaret in the Maghrib in the Ninth Century
- Chapter Seven The Triumph of the Córdoban Minaret in the Maghrib
- Chapter Eight The Minaret in Egypt through the Ayyubid Period
- Chapter Nine The Minaret in the Central and Eastern Lands before the Seljuqs
- Chapter Ten The Minaret during the Seljuq Era
- Chapter Eleven The Minaret after the Mongol Conquests
- Chapter Twelve The Minaret beyond the Persianate World
- Chapter Thirteen The Spread of the Minaret into Modern Times
- Bibliography
- Illustration Acknowledgments
- Index
Why were Towers Added to Mosques?
Why were Towers Added to Mosques?
- Chapter:
- (p.96) Chapter Five Why were Towers Added to Mosques?
- Source:
- The Minaret
- Author(s):
Jonathan M. Bloom
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
This chapter examines why towers began to be added to mosques around the beginning of the ninth century – a time when a brilliant civilization flourished at the Abbasid capital of Baghdad, and new social and religious patterns evolved under a series of absolute caliphs who wielded power in a way the late Umayyads had only imagined. Later generations would refer to this crucial moment and place in Islamic history as Islam's Golden Age.
Keywords: mosques, towers, ninth century, Baghdad, Abbasid, Islam, Muslims
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- Title Pages
- Frontispiece
- Figures
- Series Editor's Foreword
- Preface
- Maps
- Introduction
- Chapter One The History of Scholarship and the Nature of the Problem
- Chapter Two The <i>Adhan</i>, the <i>Miʾdhana</i> and the <i>Ṣawmaʿa</i>
- Chapter Three <i>Manāras</i> and <i>Manārs</i>
- Chapter Four The Mosque Tower
- Chapter Five Why were Towers Added to Mosques?
- Chapter Six The Minaret in the Maghrib in the Ninth Century
- Chapter Seven The Triumph of the Córdoban Minaret in the Maghrib
- Chapter Eight The Minaret in Egypt through the Ayyubid Period
- Chapter Nine The Minaret in the Central and Eastern Lands before the Seljuqs
- Chapter Ten The Minaret during the Seljuq Era
- Chapter Eleven The Minaret after the Mongol Conquests
- Chapter Twelve The Minaret beyond the Persianate World
- Chapter Thirteen The Spread of the Minaret into Modern Times
- Bibliography
- Illustration Acknowledgments
- Index
