Doors of the Kingdom
by Gouverneur/Khaled Azzam (Author), Mohamed Zakariya , Haajar
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0893818178
- ISBN 13
- 9780893818173
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About This Item
New York: Aperture, 1998. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 96 pages, color photographs, Like new in publisher's shrinkwrap. Doors of the Kingdom is a unique collection of photographs depicting the ancient and disappearing craft of doormaking in Arabia. The Islamic concept of hurma, or sanctity of a place of dwelling or worship, is recurrent throughout Arabic poetry and literature. The door (bab), preserver of sanctity, becomes symbolic of the boundary between public and private space, and between the profane and the sacred. In 1995, Haajar Gouverneur traveled throughout the Arabian Peninsula photographing each region's distinctive doorways and the remaining artisans who make them. The doors of Arabia, painstakingly hand-carved from the wood of the Al-Athel trees, last in their exquisite variety for hundreds of years. This ancient craft, passed down from generation to generation in the central and northern regions of Saudi Arabia, is now nearly extinct. Modern materials, technology, and changing priorities threaten the continuity of the sacred and artisanal tradition of doormaking. Record # 404416
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 404416
- Title
- Doors of the Kingdom
- Author
- Gouverneur/Khaled Azzam (Author), Mohamed Zakariya , Haajar
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0893818178
- ISBN 13
- 9780893818173
- Publisher
- Aperture
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1998
- Keywords
- Arabic, Documentary, , .
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