Islamic Architecture on the Move : Motion and Modernity.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (274 pages)
- Critical Studies in Architecture of the Middle East Series ; v.2 .
- Critical Studies in Architecture of the Middle East Series .
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.