Mosques and Palaces of Spain: from Islamic Past to Modern National Identity
Professor D. Fairchild Ruggles of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has written several award-winning books on Islamic gardens, architectural history, and cultural heritage. Her "Gardens, Landscape, and Vision in the Palaces of Islamic Spain" (2000), was praised in TLS as “a grand interpretive work written from a multidisciplinary perspective”…. “clear-headed, highly readable, stimulating….” The editor of numerous other books on cultural heritage, Islamic art, and landscape history, she has also been interviewed several times for television and film, most notably the PBS documentary, "Cities of Light." Monday, May 7 at 4:15pm to 5:30pm | Schapiro Hall, 129 * Sponsored by the Art Department and the Center for Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Continue reading »
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