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Islamic architecture on the move : motion and modernity
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ISBN: 9781783206384 Year: 2016 Publisher: Bristol ; Chicago : Intellect Books,

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Even a casual observer can spy traces of Islamic architecture and design on buildings all over the world, a reminder that artistic traditions and visual culture have never been limited to their region or country of origin, but rather are highly diffusible. 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 manifestations of Islamic motifs in 1960s Hawaii, this richly illustrated volume raises key questions about Islamic architecture, and, more broadly, about how we can rethink our understanding of material, artistic, and cultural mobility in the modern world.


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Swahili port cities
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ISBN: 0253019176 9780253019172 9780253019097 0253019095 9780253019158 025301915X Year: 2016 Publisher: Bloomington Indianapolis

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Here architecture embodies modern ideas and social identities engendered by the encounter of Africans with others in the Indian Ocean world.


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Constructing Islam on the Indus : the material history of the Suhrawardi Sufi order, 1200-1500 AD
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ISBN: 1316827232 1316827275 1316827305 1316827283 1107477638 110706290X 1316827259 Year: 2016 Publisher: Delhi : Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, Cambridge University Press,

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This book represents the first serious consideration of Ismaili-Shia esotericism in material and architectural terms, as well as of pre-modern conceptions of religious plurality in rituals and astrology. Sufism has long been reckoned to have connections to Shi'ism, but without any concrete proof. The book shows this connection in light of current scholarly work on the subject, historical sources, and most importantly, metaphysics and archaeological evidence. The monuments of the Suhrawardi Order, which are derived from the basic lodges set up by Pir Shams in the region, constitute a unique building archetype. The book's greatest strength lies in its archaeological evidence and in showing the metaphysical commonalities between Shi'ism/Isma'ilism and the Suhrawardi Sufi Order, both of which complement each other. In addition, working on premise and supposition, certain reanalysed historical periods and events in Indian Muslim history serve as added proof for the author's argument.


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Architecture, power and religion in Lebanon : Rafiq Hariri and the politics of sacred space in Beirut
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ISBN: 9004307052 9004305823 Year: 2016 Publisher: Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Brill,

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In Architecture, Power and Religion in Lebanon , Ward Vloeberghs explores Rafiq Hariri’s patronage and his posthumous legacy to demonstrate how religious architecture becomes a site for power struggles in contemporary Beirut. By tracing the 150 year-long history of the Muhammad al-Amin Mosque – Lebanon’s principal Sunni mosque – and the subsequent development of the site as a commemoration venue, this account offers a unique illustration of how architecture, religion and power become discursively and visually entangled. Set in a multi-confessional society marked by social inequalities and political fragmentation, this interdisciplinary study analyses how architectural practice and urban reconfigurations reveal a nascent personality cult, communal mourning, and the consolidation of political territory in relation to constantly shifting circumstances.

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Architecture --- Islamic architecture --- Mosques --- Architecture, Western (Western countries) --- Building design --- Buildings --- Construction --- Western architecture (Western countries) --- Art --- Building --- Architecture, Asian --- Religious institutions --- Arab architecture --- Architecture, Arab --- Architecture, Islamic --- Architecture, Moorish --- Architecture, Muslim --- Architecture, Saracenic --- Moorish architecture --- Muslim architecture --- Saracenic architecture --- Religious architecture --- History --- Design and construction --- Ḥarīrī, Rafīq Bahāʼ, --- Hariri, Rafic, --- Hariri, Rafik, --- حريري، رفيق بهاء --- حريري، رفيق بهاء، --- Jāmiʻ Muḥammad al-Amīn (Beirut, Lebanon) --- Blue Mosque (Beirut, Lebanon) --- Hariri's Mosque (Beirut, Lebanon) --- Mohammad Al-Amin Mosque (Beirut, Lebanon) --- Muhammad Al-Amin Mosque (Beirut, Lebanon) --- جامع محمد الأمين (بيروت، لبنان) --- Beirut (Lebanon) --- Beirut --- Beyrout (Lebanon) --- Beyrouth (Lebanon) --- Bejrut (Lebanon) --- Bayrūt (Lebanon) --- Vērytos (Lebanon) --- Baladīyat Bayrūt (Lebanon) --- بيروت (Lebanon) --- Βηρυττός (Lebanon) --- Vēryttos (Lebanon) --- Berytus (Lebanon) --- ביירות (Lebanon) --- Bairut (Lebanon) --- Beyrut (Lebanon) --- Berut (Lebanon) --- Beiroet (Lebanon) --- Beirots (Lebanon) --- Горад Бейрут (Lebanon) --- Horad Beĭrut (Lebanon) --- Бейрут (Lebanon) --- Beirout (Lebanon) --- Βηρυτός (Lebanon) --- Bejruto (Lebanon) --- Béiriút (Lebanon) --- 베이루트 (Lebanon) --- Beirutʻŭ (Lebanon) --- Bewout (Lebanon) --- Beirūta (Lebanon) --- Beirutas (Lebanon) --- Бејрут (Lebanon) --- Бейрут ошсь (Lebanon) --- Beĭrut oshsʹ (Lebanon) --- ベイルート (Lebanon) --- Beirūto (Lebanon) --- Beirot (Lebanon) --- Beirute (Lebanon) --- 贝鲁特 (Lebanon) --- Beilute (Lebanon) --- Buildings, structures, etc. --- Architecture, Primitive

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