Identifier: inmorocco00wharuoft (find matches)
Title: In Morocco
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937
Subjects: Morocco -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York Scribner
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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t picturesque and noticeable architectural features of Morocco, the first thing to strike the traveller is the diflSculty of discerning any difference in the probable date of their construction until certain structural peculiarities are examined, or the ornamental details of the great gateways are noted. Thus the Almohad portions of the walls of Fez and Rabat are built of stone, while later parts are of rubble; and the touch of European influence in certain gateways of Meknez and Fez at once situate them in the seventeenth century. But the mediaeval outline of these great piles of masonry, and certain technicalities in their plan, such as the disposition of the towers, alternating in the inner and outer walls, continued unchanged throughout the different dynasties; and this immutability of the Moroccan military architecture enables the imagination to picture, not only what was the aspect of the fortified cities which the Greeks built in Pa-estine and Syria, and the Crusaders brought back (276)
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? ^ NOTE ON MOROCCAN ARCHITECTURE to Europe, but even that of the far-off Assyrio-Chaldsean strongholds to which the whole fortified architecture of the Middle Ages in Europe seems to lead back. ( 277 ) IX BOOKS CONSULTED I IX BOOKS CONSULTED Afrique Frangaise (L), Bulletin Mensuel du Comite de l'Afrique Française. Paris, 21, rue Cassette. Bernard, Augustin. Le Maroc. Paris, F. Alcan, 1916. Budgett-Meakin. The Land of the Moors. London, 1902. Chdtelain, L. Recherches archeologiques au Maroc. Volu- bilis. (Published by the Military Command in Morocco.) Les Fouilles de Volubilis. (Extrait du Bulletin Archeo-logique, 1916.)Che\Tillon, A. Crepuscule dIslam.Cochelet, Charles. Le Naufrage du Brick Sophie.Conferences Marocaines. Paris, Plon-Nourrit.Doutte, E. En Tribu. Paris, 1914.Foucauld, Vicomte de. La Reconnaissance au Maroc. Paris, 1888.France-Maroc. Revue Mcnsuelle, Paris, 4, rue Chauveau- Lagarde.Gaillard. Une Ville dLsIam, Fez. Paris, 1909.Gayet, Al. LArt Arabe. Paris, 1906.Hondas, O. Le

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