The Making of Modern Muslim Selves Through Architecture / edited by Farhan S. Karim and Patricia Blessing.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Karim, Farhan, editor.

Blessing, Patricia, editor.

Series:

Critical studies in architecture of the Middle East ; Volume 10.

Critical Studies in Architecture of the Middle East Series ; Volume 10

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Regionalism in architecture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (376 p.) ill

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Chicago, IL : Intellect Ltd, [2023]

Summary:

An analysis of boundaries and boundary-making. This collection explores alternative definitions of bounded identities, facilitating new approaches to spatial and architectural forms. Taking as its starting point the emergence of a new definition of "boundary" in the wake of the twentieth-century transformation of large, heterogeneous empires into a mosaic of nation-states in the Islamic world, it shows how that new sense of boundaries not only determines the ways we imagine and construct the idea of modern citizenship, but also redefines relationships among the nation, citizenship, cities, and architecture. The contributors investigate how architecture mediates the creation and deployment of boundaries and boundedness and how architecture might be considered as a means to understand the relationship between flows and boundaries and its implications for how we define the modern self.

Contents:

Cover

The Making of Modern Muslim Selves through Architecture

Copyright

Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Confining Contingency

Chapter 1 Housing Others: Design and Identity in a Bedouin Village

Chapter 2 Building for the Lost Lands: Ottoman Architects in Mandatory Palestine and the Case of Hassan Bey Mosque

Chapter 3 The First Aussie Mosques: Mediating Boundaries despite the 'White Australia' Policy

Chapter 4 Architecture of Exclusion: The Savujbulagh-i Mukri Garrison, Border-Making, and the Transformation of the Ottoman-Qajar Frontier

Chapter 5 Staging Baghdad as a Problem of Development

Chapter 6 Tehran's Decentralization Project and the Emergence of Modern Socio-Spatial Boundaries

Chapter 7 Reconstructing the Muslim Self in Diaspora: Socio-Spatial Practicesin Urban European Mosques

Chapter 8 The Search for the Mosque of Florence: A Space of Negotiated Identities

Chapter 9 The Rome Mosque and Islamic Center: A Case of Diasporic Architecture in the Globalized Mediterranean

Chapter 10 One House of Worship with Many Roofs: Imposing Architectureto Mediate Sunni, Alevi, and Gülenist Islam in Turkey

Chapter 11 Architectural Modes of Collective Identity: The Case of Hizbullah's 'Mleeta Tourist Landmark of the Resistance' in South Lebano

Chapter 12 The Bangladesh Liberation War Museum and the Inconclusivity of Architecture

Contributor Biographies

Index

Back Cover.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781789388527

178938852X

9781789388534

1789388538

OCLC:

1467879615