Middle East Garden Traditions

Unity and Diversity

Edited by Michel Conan

    Introduction

    • Michel Conan Learning from Middle East Garden Traditions

    New Perspectives for Garden Archaeology

    • Yizhar Hirschfeld The Rose and the Balsam: The Garden as a Source of Perfume and Medicine
    • Yotam Tepper Soil Improvement and Agricultural Pesticides in Antiquity: Examples from Archaeological Research in Israel
    • Antonio Almagro An Approach to the Visual Analysis of the Gardens of Al-Andalus
    • Expiración García Sánchez and J. Estaban Hernández Bermejo Ornamental Plants in Agricultural and Botanical Treatises from Al-Andalus

    The Political Uses of Gardens

    • Mohammed El Faïz transl. by Maryrica Ortiz Lottman The Garden Strategy of the Almohad Sultans and Their Successors (1157-1900)
    • Mahvash Alemi Princely Safavid Gardens: Stage for Rituals of Imperial Display and Political Legitimacy
    • Jean-Do Brignoli The Royal Gardens of Faraha bad and the Fall of Shah Sultan Husayn Revisited
    • Ebba Koch My Garden is Hind ustan: The Mughal Padshah's Realization of a Political Metaphor
    • James L. Wescoat Jr. Questions about the Political Significance ofMughal Garden Waterworks

    Cultural Receptions of Gardens

    • Nathan Atasoy Matrakç! Nasuh and Evliya Çelebi: Perspectives on Ottoman Gardens (1534-1682)
    • Abdul Rehman and Shama Anbrine Unity and Diversity of Mughal Garden Experiences

    Critical Discussion of Cultural Influences

    • B. Deniz Çaliş Gardens at the Kağithane Commons during the Tulip Period (1718-1730)
    • Jennifer Joffee and D. Fairchild Ruggles Rajput Gardens and Landscapes

    Exploring the Limits of Garden Traditions

    • José Tito Rojo and Manuel Casares Porcel From the Andalusí Garden to the Andalusian Garden; Remnants and Re-Creation
    • Benedict Bull Gardens of Afghanistan

    Contributors

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Michel Conan is the former Director of Garden and Landscape Studies, Dumbarton Oaks.