Monuments Of Mosul Inwards Danger
[First posted inwards AWOL nine Feb 2w016, updated 24 Dec 2018]
Monuments of Mosul inwards Danger
Monuments of Mosul inwards Danger
The project Monuments of Mosul inwards Danger (Ohrožená architektura města Mosulu) – supported yesteryear the Oriental Institute, The Czech Academy of Sciences inwards Prague, and the inquiry programme Strategy AV21 of The Czech Academy of Sciences – was launched inwards reaction to a serious threat to the Mosul architectural sites from ISIS (Daesh), who seized the town inwards June 2014. Since then, dozens of historical sites convey been razed to the basis or severely damaged. Monuments of various types, such every bit mosques, madrasas, mausolea, graveyards, churches as well as monasteries convey been bailiwick to destruction.Mosul architecture has exclusively been marginally researched yesteryear Western scholars. Because of this, nosotros are non aware of how much basis cultural heritage nosotros convey been deprived of. The get-go as well as exclusively systematic survey of Islamic, Christian, as well as Jewish monuments inwards Mosul was conducted yesteryear Ernst Herzfeld inwards 1907-1908. Subsequently, exclusively several aspects of Mosul medieval architecture convey been written close by, amid others, Ugo Monneret de Villard as well as Eugen Wirth. Mosul architecture has been studied yesteryear many outstanding Iraqi researchers (e.g., Sa‛id al-Diwahji, Tariq Jawad Janabi, Ahmad Qasim al-Jum‛a, Ahmad al-Sufi, al-Kubaisi, al-Tutunchi, as well as others). Their research, however, remains largely unrecognized yesteryear the Western historical as well as archeological discourse.
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