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Islamic Architecture on the Move : Motion and Modernity.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Critical Studies in Architecture of the Middle East SeriesPublisher: Bristol : Intellect, Limited, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (274 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781783206391
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Islamic Architecture on the MoveDDC classification:
  • 724.6
LOC classification:
  • NA380.I853 2016
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1: Islamic Architecture on the Move -- Chapter 2: Karbala in Lucknow: An Itinerary of Architectural Mobility -- Chapter 3: The Mobile Matrix: The Hijaz Railway as Ritual Space and Generator of Space -- Chapter 4: Fabricating a New Image: Imperial Tents in the Late Ottoman Period -- Chapter 5: Mobility and Ambivalences: Negotiating Architectural Identities during Khedive Ismail's Reign (1863-79) -- Chapter 6: 'In the Absence of Originals': Replicating the Tilework of Safavid Isfahan for South Kensington -- Chapter 7: Relocating to Hawai'i: Dwelling with Islamic Art at Doris Duke's Shangri La -- Chapter 8: The Urban Fabric of Cairo: Khayamiya and the Suradeq -- Note on Contributors -- Back Cover.
Summary: 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 Islamic motifs in 1960s Hawaii, this volume raises key questions about Islamic architecture and material, artistic and cultural mobility.
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1: Islamic Architecture on the Move -- Chapter 2: Karbala in Lucknow: An Itinerary of Architectural Mobility -- Chapter 3: The Mobile Matrix: The Hijaz Railway as Ritual Space and Generator of Space -- Chapter 4: Fabricating a New Image: Imperial Tents in the Late Ottoman Period -- Chapter 5: Mobility and Ambivalences: Negotiating Architectural Identities during Khedive Ismail's Reign (1863-79) -- Chapter 6: 'In the Absence of Originals': Replicating the Tilework of Safavid Isfahan for South Kensington -- Chapter 7: Relocating to Hawai'i: Dwelling with Islamic Art at Doris Duke's Shangri La -- Chapter 8: The Urban Fabric of Cairo: Khayamiya and the Suradeq -- Note on Contributors -- Back Cover.

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 Islamic motifs in 1960s Hawaii, this volume raises key questions about Islamic architecture and material, artistic and cultural mobility.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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