Qayrawan: The Amuletic City

In the last years of the nineteenth century, the Tunisian city of Qayrawān suddenly found itself covered in murals. Concentrated on and around the city’s Great Mosque, these monumental artworks were only visible for about fifty years, from the 1880s through the 1930s. This book investigates the fascinating history of who created these outdoor paintings and why.

Using visual archaeological methods, William Gallois reconstructs the visual history of these works and vividly brings them back to ...