Sacred Precincts : The Religious Architecture of Non-Muslim Communities Across the Islamic World.

Intro -- Sacred Precincts: The Religious Architecture of Non-Muslim Communities across the Islamic World -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface: Non-Muslim Sacred Sites in the Muslim World -- Acknowledgements -- List of Figures -- About the Contributors -- Introduction -- PART 1: Identity -- 1 Churches Attracting Mosques: Religious Architecture in Early Islamic Syria -- 2 To Condone or to Contest?: Ethnic Identity and Religious Architecture in The Gambia -- 3 Jigo: The Essence of the Non-Tangible Architecture of the Hausa Traditional Religion -- 4 Muslims Viewed as 'Non-Muslims': The Alevi Precincts of Anatolia -- 5 Identity and Style: Armenian-Ottoman Churches in the Nineteenth Century -- 6 Apportioning Sacred Space in a Moroccan City: The Case of Tangier, 1860-1912 -- 7 Politics of Place in the Middle East and World Heritage Status for Jerusalem -- PART 2: Design -- 8 Devotional and Artistic Responses to Contested Space in Old Cairo: The Case of Al-Mu?allaqah -- 9 Sacred Geometries: The Dynamics of 'Islamic' Ornament in Jewish and Coptic Old Cairo -- 10 Synagogues of Isfahan: The Architecture of Resignation and Integration -- 11 Gothic Portability: The Crimean Memorial Church, Istanbul and the Threshold of Empire -- 12 A Catholic Church in an Islamic Capital: Historicism and Modernity in the St Antoine Church -- 13 Cultural Horizontality: Auguste Perret in the Middle East -- PART 3: Construction -- 14 Through a Glass Brightly: Christian Communities in Palestine and Arabia During the Early Islamic Period -- 15 The Miracle of Muqattam: Moving a Mountain to Build a Church in Fatimid Egypt -- 16 The Catholic Consecration of an Islamic House: The St John de Matha Trinitarian Hospital in Tunis -- 17 Armenian Merchant Patronage of New Julfa's Sacred Spaces.

18 The Tofre Begadim Synagogue and the Non-Muslim Policy of the Late Ottoman Empire -- 19 (Re)Creating a Christian Image Abroad: The Catholic Cathedrals of Protectorate-Era Tunis -- PART 4: Re-use -- 20 Khidr and the Politics of Translation in Mosul: Mar Behnam, St George and Khidr Ilyas -- 21 Muslim Influences in Post-Arab Malta: The Hal Millieri Church -- 22 St Sophia in Nicosia, Cyprus: From a Lusignan Cathedral to an Ottoman Mosque -- 23 Maribayasa: Negotiating Gold, Spirits and Islamic Renewal in a Malian Islamic Borderland -- 24 Building as Propaganda: A Palimpsest of Faith and Power in the Maghreb -- 25 The Cathedral of Ani, Turkey: From Church to Monument -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sacred Precincts examines non-Muslim religious sites in the Islamic world, revealing how architecture responds to contextual issues and traditions. It explores urban contexts; issues of identity; design; construction; transformation and the history of sacred sites in the Middle East and Africa from the advent of Islam to the 20th century. The book includes case studies on churches, synagogues and sacred sites in Iran; Turkey; Cyprus; Egypt; Iraq; Tunisia; Morocco; Malta; Nigeria; Mali, and the Gambia.

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