Book review

THE IMPERIAL CITIES OF MAROCCO

The book, and the monographs “Imperial cities of Morocco”, as its basic concept takes, one by one, presenting of the cities to which, the authors, Mohamed Metalsi, Cecile Treal and Jean-Michel Ruiz give the illustrative taxonomic names such as “Fez, the town of the letter”, “Marrakech, the town of seven scholars”, “Meknes, the town of a prince”.

The North Africa and Spain are the regions, which in the context of the Islamic art take a special place in the hearts of many people. The experts would say that here can be discovered the recent forms of the Islamic art.

The countries of that region gifted very specific and particularly rich repertoire of various shapes of creativity, among which, the architecture takes a particular place. When we talk about the North Africa, then Morocco, which over Gibraltar almost touches Spain, captures a big attention with an enormous cultural wealth and rich cities.

Comparing to Spain, where many monuments of the Islamic culture were demolished or destroyed, Morocco kept its heritage, and Islam remained a dominant faith. Islamic Morocco has several important historical city centres, which are in the book, that we here present, pointed because of their specific characteristics and contributions to the Islamic and Moroccan’s culture.

The book, and the monography “Imperial cities of Morocco”, as its basic concept takes, one by one, presenting of the cities to which, the authors, Mohamed Metalsi, Cecile Treal and Jean-Michel Ruiz give the illustrative taxonomic names such as “Fez, the town of the letter”, “Marrakech, the town of seven scholars”, “Meknes, the town of a prince”.

Each of these towns was presented through its specific elements and a large cultural heritage not only from a distant but also from the recent past.

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