Uyun al-Tawarikh
| Name of text: | Uyun al-Tawarikh |
| Author of text: | Ibn Shakir al-Kubati |
| Date of text: | 14th century |
| Date of person in text: | d. 1362 |
| Name of structure in text: | Umayyad Mosque/Great Mosque of Damascus |
| Type of structure in text: | Mosque |
| Date of structure in text | 8th century |
| Century of structure 1: | 8 AD |
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| Country in text: | Syria |
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| City in text: | Damascus |
| Specific place of mosaic in text: | walls |
| Description of mosaic in text: | Image of the Kaaba, cities and villages, flowers and trees |
| Mosaic date in text: | 8 AD |
| Tesserae silver mentioned in text? | |
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| Bibliography: | Ibn Shakir al-Kubati, Uyun al-Tawarikh, trans. Sauvaire, Henri, ‘Description de Damas’, Journal Asiatique, 3.7 (1896), 369-72; English translation in Marguerite van Berchem, ‘The Mosaics of the Dome of the Rock and of the Great Mosque in Damascus, in K. A. C. Creswell, Early Muslim Architecture (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1932-40, second edition 1969), vol. 1, 150-252, p. 161, no. 9. Rabbat, Nasser, ‘The Mosaics of the Qubba al-Zahiriyya in Damascus: A Classical Syrian Medium Acquires a Mamluk Signature’, ARAM, 9 (1997), 227-40, p. 238 |
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