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Decolonizing Islamic Art In Africa - New Approaches To Muslim Expressive Cultures

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 Addresses the dynamic place of IslamicÂ art, architecture, and creative expression inÂ decolonizing processes across the AfricanÂ continent. Brings together new work by leadingÂ scholars of African, Islamic, and modernist visualÂ cultures to challenge the disciplinary boundariesÂ that have curtailed the study of African MuslimÂ expression. 74 col. illus.
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Decolonizing Islamic Art In Africa - New Approaches To Muslim Expressive Cultures

~~116,53€~~ 104,88€ 10% OFF

 Addresses the dynamic place of IslamicÂ art, architecture, and creative expression inÂ decolonizing processes across the AfricanÂ continent. Brings together new work by leadingÂ scholars of African, Islamic, and modernist visualÂ cultures to challenge the disciplinary boundariesÂ that have curtailed the study of African MuslimÂ expression. 74 col. illus.
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Queer Contemporary Art Of Southwest Asia North Africa

~~105,93€~~ 95,34€ 10% OFF

 Presents new perspectives on queerÂ visual culture in the Southwest Asia North AfricaÂ region from artists and scholars. The volumeÂ focuses on artworks produced in the contemporaryÂ era while recognizing historical and contextualÂ connections to regional and Islamic art andÂ culture. 48 b&w illus.
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Queer Contemporary Art Of Southwest Asia North Africa

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 Presents new perspectives on queerÂ visual culture in the Southwest Asia North AfricaÂ region from artists and scholars. The volumeÂ focuses on artworks produced in the contemporaryÂ era while recognizing historical and contextualÂ connections to regional and Islamic art andÂ culture. 48 b&w illus.
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Making Of Modern Muslim Selves Through Architecture

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 Addresses the question of howÂ architecture â€" defined broadly â€" mediates theÂ forces that constitute various forms of flows andÂ boundaries, and thus creates nuanced definitionsÂ of Muslim selves. ItÂ book discusses how different experiences ofÂ partition and consolidation informed or resisted architecturalÂ developments and urban planning.Â 167 b/w illus.
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Urban Refugee - Space, Agency, And The New Urban Condition

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 This collection focuses on the spatial forms and urbanÂ consequences of forced migration. The chaptersÂ shed light on the multiple dimensions of theÂ refugeesâ€™ urban experiences from the scale of theÂ interiors to inner city neighborhoods and informalÂ settlements, and from personal accounts to theÂ formation of public discourse. 70 b/w illus.
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Spectacle, Entertainment, And Recreation In Late Ottoman And Early Turkish Republican Cities

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 An analysis of entertainment, spectacle and recreation activities and spaces of late Ottoman and early Turkish cities, discussing their evolution, and significance for the urban life as well as their interaction with societyâ€™s modernization processes, through contributions of numerous authors portraying diverse urban environments. 91Â b/w illus.
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Islamic Architecture Today And Tomorrow - (Re)Defining The Field

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 Scholars and practitioners from the realm of 'Islamic architectureâ€™ consider its changing nature and continued significance. Reflective essays address the meaning of â€˜Islamicâ€™ in built environments, and the geographical, chronological, disciplinary diversity of a dynamic field of study encompassing far more than mosques and tombs. 118 b/w illus.
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Imagining Antiquity In Islamic Societies

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 In the aftermath of the deliberate destruction of cultural heritage pursued by Islamist groups like ISIS, many observers have erroneously come to associate Islamic doctrine and practice with such acts. This book explores the diverse ways Muslims have engaged with the material legacies of ancient and pre-Islamic societies, as well as how Islam’s own heritage has been framed and experienced over time.This is a new collection of articles previously available in issues of the International Journal of Islamic Architecture.The tragically familiar spectacles of cultural heritage destruction performed by the Islamic State group (ISIS) in Syria and Iraq are frequently presented as barbaric, baffling, and far outside the bounds of what are imagined to be normative, ''civilized'' uses of the past. Often superficially explained as an attempt to stamp out idolatry or as a fundamentalist desire to revive and enforce a return to a purified monotheism, analysis of these spectacles of heritage violence posits two things: that there is, fact, an ''Islamic'' manner of imagining the past - its architectural manifestations, its traces and localities - and that actions carried out at these localities, whether constructive or destructive, have moral or ethical consequences for Muslims and non-Muslims alike. In this reading, the iconoclastic actions of ISIS and similar groups, for example the Taliban or the Wahhabi monarchy in Saudi Arabia, are represented as one, albeit extreme, manifestation of an assumedly pervasive and historically on-going Islamic antipathy toward images and pre-contemporary holy localities in particular, and, more broadly, toward the idea of heritage and the uses to which it has been put by modern nationalism. But long before the emergence of ISIS and other so-called Islamist iconoclasts, and perhaps as early as the rise of Islam itself, Muslims imagined Islamic and pre-Islamic antiquity and its localities in myriad ways: as sites of memory, spaces of healing, or places imbued with didactic, historical, and moral power. Ancient statuary were deployed as talismans, paintings were interpreted to foretell and reify the coming of Islam, and temples of ancient gods and churches devoted to holy saints were converted into mosques in ways that preserved their original meaning and, sometimes, even their architectural ornament and fabric. Often, such localities were valued simply as places that elicited a sense of awe and wonder, or of reflection on the present relevance of history and the greatness of past empires, a theme so prevalent it created distinct genres of Arabic and Persian literature (aja’ib, fada’il). Sites like Ctesiphon, the ancient capital of the Zoroastrian Sasanians, or the Temple Mount, where the Jewish temple had stood, were embraced by early companions of the Prophet Muhammad and incorporated into Islamic notions of the self. Furthermore, various Islamic interpretive communities as well as Jews and Christians often shared holy places and had similar haptic, sensorial, and ritual connections that enabled them to imagine place in similar ways. These engagements were often more dynamic and purposeful than conventional scholarly notions of ''influence'' and ''transmission'' can account for. And yet, Muslims also sometimes destroyed ancient places or powerfully reimagined them to serve their own purposes, as for example in the aftermath of the Crusader presence in the Holy Land or in the destruction, reuse and rebuilding of ancient Buddhist and Hindu sites in the Eastern Islamic lands and South Asia.This volume presents thirteen essays by leading scholars that address the issue of Islamic interest in the material past of the ancient and Islamic world, with essays examining attitudes ...
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Friday Mosque In The City - Liminality, Ritual, And Politics

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 Edited volume exploring the dynamic relationship between the Friday Mosque and the city. While the Friday mosque and the 'Islamic City' have been widely studied by historians of Islamic architecture and urbanism, this volume specifically examines the functional and spatial ambiguity or liminality between sacred and urban spaces. 101 col. illus.
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Cultural Meaning Of Aleppo - A Landscape Recovery For The Ancient City

by Giulia Annalinda Neglia

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 A documentation of the cultural meaning of the urban landscape of the Ancient City of Aleppo though the urban structures and characteristic courtyard houses, this is both a theoretical and practical handbook for architects, urban planners and restorers alike. 70 b/w illus.
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Architectural Dynamics In Pre-Revolutionary Iran - Dialogic Encounter Between Tradition And Modernity

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 This volume considers the major trends and developments in Iranian architecture during the 1960s and â€™70s in order to further our understanding of the underpinnings and intentions of Persian architecture during this period.
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Israel As A Modern Architectural Experimental Lab, 1948-1978

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 This collection discusses the innovative and experimental architecture of Israel during its first three decades following the nationâ€™s establishment in 1948.
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Expertise And Architecture In The Modern Islamic World - A Critical Anthology

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 Expertise and the Architecture of the Islamic World explores how architectural traditions and practices were shared and exchanged across national borders, departing from a straightforward narrative of European import and export of Islamic designs and skills.
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Islamic Architecture On The Move - Motion And Modernity

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 This book brings together scholars from architectural studies, design, art history and other fields to challenge and expand concepts of Islamic architecture. Ranging from eighteenth-century Ottoman tents to Islamic motifs in 1960s Hawaii, this volume raises key questions about Islamic architecture and material, artistic and cultural mobility.
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Decolonizing Islamic Art In Africa - New Approaches To Muslim Expressive Cultures

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Islamic Architecture Today And Tomorrow - (Re)Defining The Field

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 Scholars and practitioners from the realm of 'Islamic architectureâ€™ consider its changing nature and continued significance. Reflective essays address the meaning of â€˜Islamicâ€™ in built environments, and the geographical, chronological, disciplinary diversity of a dynamic field of study encompassing far more than mosques and tombs. 118 b/w illus.

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