Sounds from the past the acoustics of Sultan Hassan Mosque and Madrasa

Building Acoustics

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 109-132

  Ali El Khateeb, Ahmed ^a   Refat Ismail, Mostafa ^a  

^a The British University in Egypt   (Egypt)

Author keywords

historical; Mosque acoustics

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICAL ENVIRONMENTS; ACOUSTICAL PERFORMANCE; FIELD MEASUREMENT; HALF-CYLINDERS; HISTORICAL; REVERBERATION TIME; SPATIAL REQUIREMENTS;

ARCHITECTURAL ACOUSTICS; REVERBERATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

MEASUREMENTS;

EID: 70349146513     PISSN: 1351010X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1260/135101007781448037     Document Type: Article

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