, Brepols, 2021 Hardback, 488 pages, Size:220 x 280 mm, Illustrations:300 col., Language: English. ISBN 9782503589350.
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 ?pek T reli - 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 Pancaro?lu - Islamic Architecture in Medieval Anatolia, 1150-1450 Zeynep Y rekli - 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
, Brepols, 2022 Hardback, 360 pages, Size:220 x 280 mm, Illustrations:293 col., Language: English. ISBN 9782503589367.
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 Bogdanovi? ? Religious Landscape in the Balkans in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries Jelena Bogdanovi? and Vladimir Kuli? ? The ?erefudin White Mosque Nebahat Avc?o?lu ? The Modern and Contemporary Mosque in Europe, Russia, and Turkey Nebahat Avc?o?lu ? 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 Glossary Index