The Making of Modern Muslim Selves through Architecture -

The Making of Modern Muslim Selves through Architecture

Buch | Hardcover
390 Seiten
2024
Intellect Books (Verlag)
978-1-78938-851-0 (ISBN)
149,55 inkl. MwSt
Addresses the question of how architecture – defined broadly – mediates the forces that constitute various forms of flows and boundaries, and thus creates nuanced definitions of Muslim selves. It book discusses how different experiences of partition and consolidation informed or resisted architectural developments and urban planning. 167 b/w illus.
This collection seeks to explore alternative definitions of bounded identities, facilitating new approaches to spatial and architectural forms. Taking as its starting point the emergence of a new sense of ‘boundary’ emerged from the post-19th century dissolution of large, heterogeneous empires into a mosaic of nation-states in the Islamic world. This new sense of boundaries has not only determined the ways in which we imagine and construct the idea of modern citizenship, but also redefines relationships between the nation, citizenship, cities and architecture.



It brings critical perspectives to our understanding of the interrelation between the accumulated flows and the evolving concepts of boundary in predominantly Muslim societies and within the global Muslim diaspora. Essays in this book seeks to investigate how architecture mediates the creation and deployment of boundaries and boundedness that have been devised to define, enable, obstruct, accumulate and/or control flows able to disrupt bounded territories or identities.



More generally, the book explores how architecture might be considered as a means to understand the relationship between flows and boundaries and its implication of defining modern self. The essays in this volume collectively address how the construction of self is primarily a spatial event and operated within the crucial nexus of power-knowledge-space.



Contributors investigate how architecture mediates the creation and deployment of boundaries and boundedness, 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.



 



 



Part of the Critical Studies in Architecture of the Middle East series. 

Farhan Karim is an associate professor in the School of Architecture and Design at the University of Kansas and the current president of the Society of Architectural and Urban Historians of Asia. He worked as an architect, interior designer and furniture designer in Bangladesh and Australia. Patricia Blessing is associate professor of art and art history at Stanford University.

List of Figures vii



Acknowledgements xiii



Introduction: Confining Contingency 1



Farhan Karim



 



Chapter 1. Housing Others: Design and Identity in a Bedouin Village 21



Noam Shoked



Chapter 2. Building for the Lost Lands: Ottoman Architects in Mandatory Palestine and the Case of Hassan Bey Mosque 51



Müjde Dila Gümüs¸



Chapter 3. The First Aussie Mosques: Mediating Boundaries despite the ‘White Australia’ Policy 77



Katharine Bartsch, Md. Mizanur Rashid, and Peter Scriver



Chapter 4. Architecture of Exclusion: The Savujbulagh-i Mukri Garrison, Border-Making, and the Transformation of the Ottoman-Qajar Frontier 111



Nader Sayadi



Chapter 5. Staging Baghdad as a Problem of Development 139



Huma Gupta



Chapter 6. Tehran’s Decentralization Project and the Emergence of Modern Socio-Spatial Boundaries 167



Elmira Jafari and Carola Hein



Chapter 7. Reconstructing the Muslim Self in Diaspora: Socio-Spatial Practices in Urban European Mosques 193



Elisabeth Becker



Chapter 8. The Search for the Mosque of Florence: A Space of Negotiated Identities 219



Hanan Kataw



Chapter 9. The Rome Mosque and Islamic Center: A Case of Diasporic Architecture in the Globalized Mediterranean 237



Theodore Van Loan and Eva-Maria Troelenberg



Chapter 10. One House of Worship with Many Rooves: Imposing Architecture to Mediate Sunni, Alevi, and Gülenist Islam in Turkey 253



Angela Andersen



Chapter 11. Architectural Modes of Collective Identity: The Case of Hizbullah’s ‘Mleeta Tourist Landmark of the Resistance’ in South Lebanon 277



Heike Delitz and Stefan Maneval



Chapter 12. The Bangladesh Liberation War Museum and the Inconclusivity of Architecture 309



Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi



 



Contributor Biographies 353



Index 359

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Critical Studies in Architecture of the Middle East
Zusatzinfo 167 Halftones, black and white
Sprache englisch
Maße 170 x 230 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie Islam
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Spezielle Soziologien
Technik Architektur
ISBN-10 1-78938-851-1 / 1789388511
ISBN-13 978-1-78938-851-0 / 9781789388510
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