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The Religious Architecture of Islam
Volume II: Africa, Europe, and the Americas
Kathryn Moore, Hasan-Uddin Khan (eds)
- Pages: 360 p.
- Size:220 x 280 mm
- Illustrations:293 col.
- Language(s):English
- Publication Year:2022
- € 150,00 EXCL. VAT RETAIL PRICE
- ISBN: 978-2-503-58936-7
- Hardback
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Also Available: Volume I: Asia and Australia
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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. Essays both address major themes across the history of Islamic architecture and provide more focused studies of developments unique to specific regions and historical periods. The essays cover the history of 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
AL-ANDALUS AND THE MAGHRIB
Glaire D. Anderson — Early Mosque Architecture in Al-Andalus and the Maghrib
Glaire D. Anderson — Islamic Religious Spaces in Secular Monuments in the West Through the Caliphal Period
Susana Calvo Capilla — The Mosque of Cordoba
Juan Carlos Ruiz Souza — The Mosque of Cordoba and Iberia’s Christians
Jessica Renee Streit — Almohad Religious Spaces
Susana Calvo Capilla — The Taifa-period Mosques of Al-Andalus
Susana Calvo Capilla — The Rural and Urban Mosques of Al-Andalus
AFRICA AND SICILY
Jonathan M. Bloom — Fatimid Mosques
Kristen Streahle — Religious Spaces in Islamic and Norman Sicily
Lara Tohme — The Ribats of North Africa
Mariam Rosser-Owen — The Almoravid Religious Spaces of Marrakesh and Fez
Cynthia Robinson — The Great Mosque of Tlemcen
Hasan-Uddin Khan — The Mosque of Hassan II, Casablanca
Amira K. Bennison — Madrasas in the Maghrib
Amira K. Bennison — Mosques and Society in the Maghrib
Stephennie Mulder — Mamluk Religious Architecture
Nnamdi Elleh — The Earth Mosques of West Africa
Vera-Simone Schulz — Coral Stone Mosques in East Africa
EUROPE
Jelena Bogdanović — Religious Landscape in the Balkans in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries
Jelena Bogdanović and Vladimir Kulić — The Šerefudin White Mosque
Nebahat Avcıoğlu — The Modern and Contemporary Mosque in Europe, Russia, and Turkey
Nebahat Avcıoğlu — Britain’s First Mosque: Woking
THE AMERICAS
Omar Khalidi — North American Mosques
Tammy Gaber — Canadian Mosques
Caroline “Olivia” Wolf — Modern and Contemporary Mosques in Latin America
Caroline “Olivia” Wolf — Argentina’s King Fahd Islamic Cultural Center
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