The historic Damascene houses (comprehensive artistic exhibition) by Muslim Saqqa Amini and his team

Author: Muslim Sqa Amini and his team Publisher: Dar Ninawa for Studies, Publishing, and Distribution Date: 2018 This book is a comprehensive artistic presentation that took at least twenty years of effort in lifting, studying, and restoring most of the Damascene houses displayed through an integrated engineering team working at the Heritage and Architecture Foundation, headed by Dr. Engineer Muslim Sqa Amini. This book presents the plans, sections, facades, and engineering details of the archaeological Damascene houses displayed within a unified artistic display system to facilitate comparison work. It also shows various details including complete parts of the Damascene houses such as floors, walls, ceilings, courtyards, doors, windows, mashrabiyas, and others. Furthermore, it presents the decorative and architectural details of stones, woods, tiles, marble, and others. Anyone who reviews this book will gain a comprehensive, accurate, and useful artistic idea about Damascene houses, their types, and details. It is a very important reference for engineers of various specialties, researchers, historians, craftsmen, and anyone interested in our architectural artistic heritage left by our noble ancestors. It will preserve for future generations some aspects of our heritage that are disappearing due to circumstances and neglect. We present this book, confident that it will add new material to the Arab, Islamic, and global architectural library and provide the reader with exciting, interesting information that has not been published before in this form.