Cities and Islamisms : on the politics and production of the built environment / edited by Bülent Batuman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Batuman, Bülent, editor.

Taylor & Francis eBooks.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islam and architecture.

Islam and architecture--Case studies.

Islamic architecture--Political aspects--Case studies.

Islamic architecture.

Islam and politics--Case studies.

Islam and politics.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 153 pages) : illustrations, maps

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

Bülent Batuman is Associate Professor of Architecture at Bilkent University, with joint appointment in the Department of Urban Design and Landscape Architecture and theDepartment of Architecture. He studied at the Middle East Technical University (Ankara, Turkey) and received his PhD in History and Theory of Art and Architecture from the State University of New York at Binghamton, USA. His research areas include social production and politics of the built environment, history and theory of modern architecture and urbanism, and urban politics. His current research focuses on the architectural politics of Islamism, and his latest book, New Islamist Architecture and Urbanism: Negotiating Nation and Islam through Built Environment in Turkey, was published by Routledge in 2018.

Contents:

Introduction: Islamisms and the Built Environment: Notes for a Research Agenda / Bülent Batuman

Section I. Nations in Islam: Architecture across Borders: 1. InterAsian Islamisms: Monumental Mosques and Modernity in Kazakhstan and Qatar / Natalie Koch

2. Turkish House Home and Abroad: Islamist Self-Orientalism and Architecture of Diplomacy / Bülent Batuman

Section II. Official versus Vernacular: Dispute over Local Spaces of Worship: 3. Performing Algerian Islam in Bouteflika's policies: Reflections from the nationalization of Sufi zawiya / Valentina Fedele

4. Contesting Vision of Modernity? The case of Tanjung Bunut Mosque / Khairul Hazmi Zaini

Section III. Islamic Architectures of Nation Building: 5. Representing people through Islamic Architecture in Pakistan / Farhan Karim

6. Is there moderation in ostentation? Architectural sectarianism and Lebanese Islamisms (2008-2018) / Ward Vloeberghs

Section IV. Public Spaces / Islamist Subjectivities: 7. Monument to an Alternate Islamist Movement: Hosseinyeh Ershad and its Legacy / Pamela Karimi & Saba Madani

8. Islamist Urbanism and Spatial Performances in Indonesia / Abidin Kusno

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 22, 2021).

Other Format:

Print version: Cities and islamisms

ISBN:

9780429318382

0429318383

9781000297898

1000297896

9781000297850

1000297810

9781000297812

1000297853

Publisher Number:

40030354630

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