Decolonizing Islamic Art in Africa : New Approaches to Muslim Expressive Cultures / edited by Ashley Miller.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Miller, Ashley, editor.

Series:

Critical studies in architecture of the Middle East ; Volume 12.

Critical Studies in Architecture of the Middle East Series ; Volume 12

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art, African.

Decolonization in art.

Islamic art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (320 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Bristol, England : Intellect Ltd, [2024]

Summary:

Addresses the dynamic place of Islamic art, architecture, and creative expression in decolonizing processes across the African continent. Brings together new work by leading scholars of African, Islamic, and modernist visual cultures to challenge the disciplinary boundaries that have curtailed the study of African Muslim expression. 74 col. illus.

Contents:

Cover

Decolonizing Islamic Art in Africa

Copyright

Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Un-Disciplining African Muslim Expressive Cultures

Part 1 Beyond Borders: African (and) Muslim Objects as ‘Relational Loci’

Chapter 1 Dispersal, Decolonization, and Dominance: African Muslim Objects from the Swahili Sultanate of Witu (1858–1923)

Chapter 2 ‘A Land That Fulfils Dreams’: Rethinking Zanzibar’s Stone Town Beyond the Colonial Imaginary

Part 2 Disobedient Media: Reclaiming African Muslim Expressive Cultures

Chapter 3 ‘Disobedient’ Perspectives on African Muslim Arts

Chapter 4 Entanglements of Belonging: Identifying with Place in an Urban Muslim Masquerade

Chapter 5 Tattooing as Subversive Archive: Safaa Mazirh’s Reclamation of Tattoos in Postcolonial Morocco

Part 3 Mobilizing Heritage: Painting Postcolonial Identities

Chapter 6 Calligraphy in Mauritania: Creating a Lost Identity

Chapter 7 Possessed: The Mystical Post-Surrealism of Wifredo Lam, Abdel Hadi El-Gazzar, and Ibrahim El-Salahi

Chapter 8 Cybernetics and Postcolonial Utopias

Part 4 Undisciplined Constructions: Relocating ‘Islamic’ Architecture in Africa

Chapter 9 Between Art and Architecture, Modernism and Makhzen

Chapter 10 Kader Attia’s Alternative History of the Grands Ensembles, from France to Algeria and Back

Contributor Biographies

Index

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Includes index.

ISBN:

9781835950029

1835950027

9781835950012

1835950019

OCLC:

1460463161