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The Religious Architecture of Islam
Volume I: Asia and Australia
Kathryn Moore, Hasan-Uddin Khan (eds)
- Pages: 488 p.
- Size:220 x 280 mm
- Illustrations:300 col.
- Language(s):English
- Publication Year:2021
- € 150,00 EXCL. VAT RETAIL PRICE
- ISBN: 978-2-503-58935-0
- Hardback
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Also Available: Volume II: Africa, Europe, and the Americas
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“Overall, the book makes a substantial contribution to the body of knowledge in the area. It is a really enlightening and interesting book to read.” (Abeer Allahham, in ARCHNET, 03, 2023, p. 417)
BIO
Hasan-Uddin Khan, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Architecture and Historic Preservation at Roger Williams University (RWU) has worked as an architect and critic around the globe. He was Editor-in-Chief of the international journal Mimar: Architecture in Development and Academic Editor of International Journal of Islamic Architecture. He helped set up the Aga Khan Award for Architecture and coordinated His Highness the Aga Khan’s worldwide architectural activities between 1984 and 1994. He has been a faculty member at MIT, Berkeley, and RWU until 2020. He is the editor/author of ten books, including The Mosque (Thames & Hudson, 1994), The Contemporary Mosque (Rizzoli, 1997), International Style (Taschen, 1998), and The Architecture of Habib Fida Ali (Liberty Books, 2010), as well as over seventy articles.
Kathryn Blair Moore, Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Connecticut, has a PhD in Art History from New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts. Her research and publications have ranged from medieval Europe and the Middle East during the Crusades to the Italian Renaissance. Her book, The Architecture of the Christian Holy Land: Reception from Late Antiquity through the Renaissance (Cambridge University Press, 2017), received a PROSE Award for Art History & Criticism and the Medieval Institute’s Otto Gründler book prize. She has been a fellow of the American Academy in Rome and Harvard University’s Villa I Tatti.
Summary
The Religious Architecture of Islam is a wide-ranging multi-author study of the architectural traditions associated with the religion of Islam across the globe. A total of 59 essays by 48 authors are presented across two volumes, Volume 1: Asia and Australia and Volume 2: Africa, Europe, and the Americas. Essays address major themes across historical and contemporary periods of Islam and provide more focused studies of developments unique to specific regions and historical periods. The essays cover Islamic religious architecture broadly defined, including mosques, madrasas, saints' shrines, and funerary architecture. The Religious Architecture of Islam both provides an introduction to the history of Islamic architecture and reflects the most recent scholarship within the field.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Hasan-Uddin Khan and Kathryn Blair Moore — Introduction
Background Themes
Heba Mostafa — Locating the Sacred in Early Islamic Architecture
Nezar AlSayyad and İpek Türeli — The Mosque in the Urban Context
D. Fairchild Ruggles — Gardens as Places of Piety and Faith
Imdat As — Complex Patterns and Three-Dimensional Geometry in Islamic Religious Architecture
Matthew Saba and Michael A. Toler — Archives and Archival Documents in the Study of Islamic Religious Architecture
West and Central Asia
Abeer Hussam Eddin Allahham — The Holy Mosque of Mecca
Akel Ismail Kahera — The Mosque of the Prophet at Medina
Kathryn Blair Moore — The Dome of the Rock through the Centuries
Mattia Guidetti — The Great Mosque of Damascus through the Medieval Period
Mattia Guidetti — Early Islam and Byzantine Churches
Melanie Michailidis — Early Mosques in Iran and Central Asia
Matthew Saba — Funerary Architecture in Iraq under the Abbasids and their Successors, 750–1250
Megan Boomer and Robert Ousterhout — Muslims, Byzantines, and Western Christians on the Haram al-Sharif
Stephennie Mulder — Mosques under the Ayyubids
Stephennie Mulder — Shrines in the Central Islamic Lands
Melanie Michailidis — Shrines and Mausolea in Iran and Central Asia
Sheila Blair — The Ilkhanids and their Successors
Bernard O’Kane — Religious Architecture of Central Asia under the Timurids and their Successors
Farshid Emami — Religious Architecture of Safavid Iran
Oya Pancaroğlu — Islamic Architecture in Medieval Anatolia, 1150–1450
Zeynep Yürekli — Three Sufi Shrines under the Ottomans
Ali Uzay Peker — Seljuk and Ottoman Mosques
Imdat As — Kocatepe: The Unbuilt State Mosque of Turkey
James Steele — Regionalist Expressions of the Mosque in the Arabian Peninsula and Middle East
South and East Asia
Alka Patel — The Sultanates in South Asia, 700–1690
Laura E. Parodi — Mughal Religious Architecture
Kamil Khan Mumtaz — Badshahi Masjid, Lahore
Kamil Khan Mumtaz — The Architecture of Sufi Shrines in Pakistan
Imran bin Tajudeen — Pre-Islamic and Vernacular Elements in the Southeast Asian Mosques of Nusantara
Nancy S. Steinhardt — The Mosque in China
Hasan-Uddin Khan — The Great Mosque of Xi’an (Qing Zhen Si)
Australia
Tammy Gaber — New Australian Mosques
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