Expressions of Islam in Buildings
Author | : Hayat Salam-Liebich |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Architecture and society |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Hayat Salam-Liebich |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Architecture and society |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Robert Hillenbrand |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 716 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780231101325 |
This is the definitive survey of Islamic architecture. Working from a social, rather than a technical perspective, Hillenbrand shows how the buildings fulfilled their intended functions within the community. Lavishly illustrated.
Author | : Jonathan M. Bloom |
Publisher | : Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Art |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2018-04-17 |
Genre | : Islamic art and symbolism |
ISBN | : 9781474437226 |
Bloom reveals that the Minaret, long understood to have been invented in the early years of Islam as the place from which the muezzin gives the call to prayer, was actually invented some two centuries later to be a visible symbol of Islam. Drawing on buildings, archaeological reports, medieval histories, geographies, and early Arabic poetry, he reinterprets the origin, development, and meanings of the minaret and provides a sweeping historical and geographical tour of the minaret's position as the symbol of Islam.
Author | : Barbara Daly Metcalf |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1996-12-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780520204041 |
Focusing on the private and public use of space, this volume explores the religious life of the new Muslim communities in North America and Europe. Unlike most studies of immigrant groups, these essays concentrate on cultural practices and expressions of everyday life rather than on the political issues that dominate today's headlines. The authors emphasize the cultural strength and creativity of communities that draw upon Islamic symbols and practices to define "Muslim space" against the background of a non-Muslim environment. The range of perspectives is broad, encompassing middle-class professionals, mosque congregations, factory workers in France and the north of England, itinerant African traders, and prison inmates in New York. The truism that "Islam is a religion of the word" takes on concrete meaning as these disparate communities find ways to elaborate word-centered ritual and to have the visual and aural presence of sacred words in the spaces they inhabit. The volume includes 46 black-and-white photographs that illustrate Muslim populations in Edmonton, Philadelphia, the Green Haven Correction Facility, Manhattan, Marseilles, Berlin, and London, among other places. The focus on space directs attention to the new kinds of boundaries and consciousness that exist not only for these Muslim populations, but for people from all backgrounds in today's ever more integrated world.
Author | : Dominique Clevenot |
Publisher | : Vendome Press |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : |
Since human representation is forbidden in Islamic religious monuments, design & ornamentation reach unparalleled heights in Islamic tiles, mosaics, stucco, brickwork, & ceramics, enhanced by brilliant color. The author is a distinguished scholar of Islamic art & a professor at the University of Toulouse.
Author | : Jonathan M. Bloom |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 634 |
Release | : 2017-05-15 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1351942581 |
This volume deals with the formative period of Islamic art (to c. 950), and the different approaches to studying it. Individual essays deal with architecture, ceramics, coins, textiles, and manuscripts, as well as with such broad questions as the supposed prohibition of images, and the relationships between sacred and secular art. An introductory essay sets each work in context; it is complemented by a bibliography for further reading.
Author | : Michael Frishkopf |
Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 477 |
Release | : 2018-03-13 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1477312463 |
Bringing together the perspectives of ethnomusicology, Islamic studies, art history, and architecture, this edited collection investigates how sound production in built environments is central to Muslim religious and cultural expression.
Author | : Gülru Necipoğlu |
Publisher | : Getty Publications |
Total Pages | : 414 |
Release | : 1996-03-01 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0892363355 |
Since precious few architectural drawings and no theoretical treatises on architecture remain from the premodern Islamic world, the Timurid pattern scroll in the collection of the Topkapi Palace Museum Library is an exceedingly rich and valuable source of information. In the course of her in-depth analysis of this scroll dating from the late fifteenth or early sixteenth century, Gülru Necipoğlu throws new light on the conceptualization, recording, and transmission of architectural design in the Islamic world between the tenth and sixteenth centuries. Her text has particularly far-reaching implications for recent discussions on vision, subjectivity, and the semiotics of abstract representation. She also compares the Islamic understanding of geometry with that found in medieval Western art, making this book particularly valuable for all historians and critics of architecture. The scroll, with its 114 individual geometric patterns for wall surfaces and vaulting, is reproduced entirely in color in this elegant, large-format volume. An extensive catalogue includes illustrations showing the underlying geometries (in the form of incised “dead” drawings) from which the individual patterns are generated. An essay by Mohammad al-Asad discusses the geometry of the muqarnas and demonstrates by means of CAD drawings how one of the scroll’s patterns could be used co design a three-dimensional vault.
Author | : Eric Roose |
Publisher | : Amsterdam University Press |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9089641335 |
Study of Dutch mosque designs that shows that current designs do not oppose Dutch society but those versions of Islam they hold to be false.
Author | : Dominique Clévenot |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Decoration and ornament, Architectural |
ISBN | : 9780500343326 |
Surface decoration has always played a fundamental role in Islamic architecture. As human representation is forbidden in Islamic religious monuments, designers employed mosaics, stucco, brickwork and ceramics, and the vigorous use of brilliant colour to reach unparalleled heights of expression. It is this ornamental dimension of Islamic architecture that is explored in this magnificent volume. Rather than limiting itself to an exclusively historical or chronological perspective, Ornament and Decoration in Islamic Architecture presents four successive approaches to its subject. The first part offers an overview of Islamic architecture, discussing the great diversity it contains. Dealing exclusively with techniques, the second part considers the materials most often used as well as the expertise of the builders and Muslim decorative artists, and the third part explores themes in Islamic ornamentation. Section four discusses aesthetics, and studies the relationship between the buildings - the structures or their architectonic components - and their ornamental coverings. Each of these topics is presented through a number of outstanding examples and then through comparable monuments from all over the Islamic world. For anyone in thrall to such great wonders as the Taj Mahal and the Alhambra, and for everyone interested in the world of Islam, this lavish publication will be indispensable