Even a casual observer can spy traces of Islamic architecture and design on buildings all over the world, a reminder that artistic traditions and visual culture have never been limited to their region or country of origin, but rather are highly diffusible.
This book brings together scholars from architectural studies, design, art history and other fields to challenge and expand concepts of Islamic architecture. Ranging from eighteenth-century Ottoman tents to manifestations of Islamic motifs in 1960s Hawaii, this richly illustrated volume raises key questions about Islamic architecture, and, more broadly, about how we can rethink our understanding of material, artistic and cultural mobility in the modern world.
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Chapter 1: Islamic Architecture on the Move
Christiane Gruber
Chapter 2: Karbala in Lucknow: An Itinerary of Architectural Mobility
Elise Kamleh and Katherine Bartsch
Chapter 3: The Mobile Matrix: The Hijaz Railway as Ritual Space and Generator of Space
David Simonowitz
Chapter 4: Fabricating a New Image: Imperial Tents in the Late Ottoman Period
Ashley Dimmig
Chapter 5: Mobility and Ambivalences: Negotiating Architectural Identities during Khedive Ismail’s Reign (1863–79)
Marwa M. El-Ashmouni
Chapter 6: ‘In the Absence of Originals’: Replicating the Tilework of Safavid Isfahan for South Kensington
Moya Carey
Chapter 7: Relocating to Hawai‘i: Dwelling with Islamic Art at Doris Duke’s Shangri La
Olga Bush
Chapter 8: The Urban Fabric of Cairo: Khayamiya and the Suradeq
Sam Bowker
Note on Contributors
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Christiane Gruber is a professor of Islamic art in the Department of the History of Art at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, as well as the founding director of Khamseen: Islamic Art History Online. Her work explores medieval to contemporary Islamic art, especially figural representation, depictions of the Prophet Muhammad, manuscripts and book arts, architecture, and modern visual and material cultures. Gruber’s recent publications include The Praiseworthy One: The Prophet Muhammad in Islamic Texts and Images (Indiana University Press, 2019) and an edited volume The Image Debate: Figural Representation in Islam and Across the World (Gingko and University of Chicago Press, 2019).
Contact: Department of the History of Art, University of Michigan, 110 Tappan Hall, 855 S. University Ave., Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.
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