Envisioning the Orient: The New Muslim Cemetery in Malta

This paper analyzes a project for a new Muslim cemetery in Malta that was realized in 1873–74. It investigates the process of commissioning and implementing the project through an intricate set of relationships between the colonial authorities in Malta, then a British island-colony in the Mediterran...

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Main Author: Thake, Conrad 1963- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2016
In: Muqarnas
Year: 2016, Volume: 33, Issue: 1, Pages: 221-251
Further subjects:B Muslim cemetery
 Malta
 neo-Ottoman architecture
 orientalism
 Sultan Abdülaziz I
 Emanuele Luigi Galizia
 British colonialism

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