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5 books match the query 'Islamic architecture'

cover of A Gazetteer of Buildings in Muslim Palestine

A Gazetteer of Buildings in Muslim Palestine

Andrew Petersen

Council for British Research in the Levant, 2001

The aim of the survey on which this book is based was to make a record of all buildings constructed in Palestine during the medieval and Ottoman periods. The survey area covers the modern state of Israel excluding West Jerusalem and Ramla (which are covered in separate publications). The West Bank and Gaza will be the subject of Volume II.

Library of Congress subject headings for this publication:
Architecture, Islamic -- Palestine -- Guidebooks.
Architecture, Ottoman -- Palestine -- Guidebooks.
Architecture, Medieval -- Palestine -- Guidebooks.
Historic buildings -- Palestine -- Guidebooks.
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Building Histories

The Archival and Affective Lives of Five Monuments in Modern Delhi

Mrinalini Rajagopalan

University of Chicago Press, 2016

Building Histories offers innovative accounts of five medieval monuments in Delhi—the Red Fort, Rasul Numa Dargah, Jama Masjid, Purana Qila, and the Qutb complex—tracing their modern lives from the nineteenth century into the twentieth.

Mrinalini Rajagopalan argues that the modern construction of the history of these monuments entailed the careful selection, manipulation, and regulation of the past by both the colonial and later postcolonial states. Although framed as objective “archival” truths, these histories were meant to erase or marginalize the powerful and persistent affective appropriations of the monuments by groups who often existed outside the center of power. By analyzing these archival and affective histories together, Rajagopalan works to redefine the historic monument—far from a symbol of a specific past, the monument is shown in Building Histories to be a culturally mutable object with multiple stories to tell.
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cover of Islamic Architecture on the Move: Motion and Modernity

Islamic Architecture on the Move

Motion and Modernity

Edited by Christiane Gruber

Intellect Books, 2016

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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Monumental Matters

The Power, Subjectivity, and Space of India's Mughal Architecture

Santhi Kavuri-Bauer

Duke University Press, 2011

Built in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, India’s Mughal monuments—including majestic forts, mosques, palaces, and tombs, such as the Taj Mahal—are world renowned for their grandeur and association with the Mughals, the powerful Islamic empire that once ruled most of the subcontinent. In Monumental Matters, Santhi Kavuri-Bauer focuses on the prominent role of Mughal architecture in the construction and contestation of the Indian national landscape.

She examines the representation and eventual preservation of the monuments, from their disrepair in the colonial past to their present status as protected heritage sites. Drawing on theories of power, subjectivity, and space, Kavuri-Bauer’s interdisciplinary analysis encompasses Urdu poetry, British landscape painting, imperial archaeological surveys, Indian Muslim identity, and British tourism, as well as postcolonial nation building, World Heritage designations, and conservation mandates. Since Independence, the state has attempted to construct a narrative of Mughal monuments as symbols of a unified, secular nation. Yet modern-day sectarian violence at these sites continues to suggest that India’s Mughal monuments remain the transformative spaces—of social ordering, identity formation, and national reinvention—that they have been for centuries.
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cover of Ottoman Jerusalem: The Living City: 1517-1917 Part 1 & 2

Ottoman Jerusalem

The Living City: 1517-1917 Part 1 & 2

Sylvia Auld

Council for British Research in the Levant, 2000

A survey of Ottoman architecture in the Old City of Jerusalem, carried out by Yusuf Natsheh, and scholarship about this period co-edited by Robert Hillenbrand and Sylvia Auld, which began in 1991. In Part 1 of Ottoman Jerusalem, contributions from 33 academics present valuable research about life and culture in Jerusalem during the Ottoman period. Part 2 provides a detailed survey of the Ottoman architecture in the Old City of Jerusalem conducted by Yusuf Natsheh with the support of The Administration of Auqaf and Islamic Affairs, Jerusalem. The publication is published on behalf of the BSAJ by the World of Islam Festival Trust (now Al Tajir Trust).  
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