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Expertise and Architecture in the Modern Islamic World: A Critical Anthology

by Peter H. Christensen , Mohammad Gharipour , Christiane Gruber
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781783209286
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Intellect (UK)
  • Publisher Imprint: Intellect (UK)
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  • Pages: 304
  • Original Price: GBP 79.95
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 817 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): General

Expertise and Architecture in the Modern Islamic World explores how architectural traditions and practices were shared and exchanged across national borders throughout the world, departing from a narrative that casts European actors as the importers and exporters of Islamic designs and skills. Looking to cases that touch on empire building, modernization, statecraft and diplomacy, this book examines how these processes have been contingent on a web of expertise informed by a rich and varied array of authors and contexts since the 1800s. The chapters in this volume, organized around the leitmotif of expertise, demonstrate the thematic importance and specific utility of in-depth and broad-ranging knowledge in shaping the understanding of architecture in the Islamic world from the nineteenth century to the present. Specific case studies include European gardeners in Ottoman courts, Polish architects in Kuwait, Israeli expertise in Iran, monument archiving in India, religious spaces in Swedish suburbs and more.

This is the latest title in Critical Studies in Architecture of the Middle East, a series devoted to the most recent scholarship concerning architecture, landscape and urban design of the Middle East and of regions shaped by diasporic communities more globally.

Christensen, Peter H.: - Peter H. Christensen is assistant professor in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Rochester.

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