A Living Islamic City: Fez and Its Preservation
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By Titus Burckhardt, Jean-Louis Michon (Editor), Joseph A. Fitzgerald (Editor), Jane Casewit (Translator)
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The Moroccan city of Fez, founded in the ninth century CE, is one of the most precious urban jewels of Islamic civilization. For more than 40 years Titus Burckhardt worked to document and preserve the artistic and architectural heritage of Fez in particular and Morocco in general. These newly translated lectures, delivered while Burckhardt was living and working in Fez, explore how the historic city can be preserved without turning it from a living organism into a dead museum-city, and how ...






















