Sacred Precincts examines non-Muslim religious sites in the Islamic world, revealing how architecture responds to contextual issues and traditions. It explores urban contexts; issues of identity; design; construction; transformation and the history of sacred sites in the Middle East and Africa from the advent of Islam to the 20th century. The book includes case studies on churches, synagogues and sacred sites in Iran; Turkey; Cyprus; Egypt; Iraq; Tunisia; Morocco; Malta; Nigeria; Mali, and the Gambia.
Recenzijas
"... a timely and sorely needed compilation of essays that accounts for the long-standing history and complexity of pluralism within many Muslim-majority cities and contexts throughout the world... Without question, texts from this vitally important volume should not only be read by specialists, but assigned in every introductory art historical, theological, historical, or anthropological course that even touches on Islam, for these essays are the interlocutors that can simultaneously dismantle the logic of both Islamophobia and radicalism through innumerable historical exemplars of coexistence. Within the existing body of scholarship in architectural history and urban studies, this volume expands our knowledge of the vibrant pluralism and religious and ethnic diversity of cities throughout the Islamic world, while productively obliterating the Orientalist, monolithic conception of the "Islamic city." - Nancy Demerdash-Fatemi, in: H-AMCA, H-Net Reviews, April (2017)
"... a volume beautiful enough to adorn my coffee table, yet useful enough to merit a place on my office book-shelf... [ ...] a fascinating volume for potential courses on World-Christianity, Christian-Muslim relations, or anthropology of religion, among other possibilities." - Lucina Allen Mosher, in: Anglican Theological Review 99/1
CONTENTS
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Preface: Non-Muslim Sacred Sites in the Muslim World
Mohammad Gharipour
Introduction
PART 1: IDENTITY
1. Churches Attracting Mosques: The Architecture of Mosques in Early Islamic
Syria
Mattia Guidetti
2. To Condone or To Contest? Ethnic Identity and Religious Architecture in
The Gambia
Steven Thomson
3. Jigo: The Essence of the Non-Tangible Architecture of Hausa Traditional
Religion
A.A. Muhammad-Oumar
4. Muslims Viewed as Non-Muslims: The Alevi Precincts of Anatolia
Angela Andersen
5. Identity and Style: Armenian-Ottoman Churches in the Nineteenth Century
Alyson Wharton
6. Apportioning Sacred Space in a Moroccan City: The Case of Tangier,
18601912
Susan Gilson Miller
7. Politics of Place in the Middle East and World Heritage Status for
Jerusalem
Elvan Cobb
PART 2: DESIGN
8. Devotional and Artistic Responses to Contested Space in Old Cairo: The
Case of
Al-Muallaqah
Erin Maglaque
9. Sacred Geometries: The Dynamics of Islamic Ornament in Jewish and
Coptic Old Cairo
Ann Shafer
10. Synagogues of Isfahan: The Architecture of Resignation and Integration
Mohammad Gharipour and Rafael Sedighpour
11. Gothic Portability: The Crimean Memorial Church, Istanbul, and the
Threshold of Empire
Ayla Lepine
12. A Catholic Church in an Islamic Capital: Historicism and Modernity in the
St Antoine Church
Ebru Özeke Tökmeci
13. Cultural Horizontality: Auguste Perret in the Middle East
Karla Britton
PART 3: CONSTRUCTION
14. Through a Glass Brightly: Christian Communities in Palestine and Arabia
During the Early Islamic Period
Karen C. Britt
15. The Miracle of Muqattam: Moving a Mountain to Build a Church in
Fatimid Egypt
Jennifer Pruitt
16. The Catholic Consecration of an Islamic House: The St John de Matha
Trinitarian Hospital in Tunis
Clara Ilham Įlvarez Dopico
17. Armenian Merchant Patronage of New Julfas Sacred Spaces
Amy Landau and Theo Maarten van Lint
18. The Tofre Begadim Synagogue and the Non-Muslim Policy of the Late
Ottoman Empire
Meltem Özkan Altnöz
19. (Re)Creating a Christian Image Abroad: The Catholic Cathedrals of
Protectorate-Era Tunis
Daniel Coslett
PART 4: RE-USE
20. Khidr and the Politics of Translation in Mosul: Mar Behnam, St George and
Khidr Ilyas
Ethel Sara Wolper
21. Muslim Influences in Post-Muslim Malta: The Hal Millieri Church
David Mallia
22. St Sophia in Nicosia, Cyprus: From a Lusignan Cathedral to an Ottoman
Mosque
Suna Guven
23. Maribayasa: Negotiating Gold, Spirits, and Islamic Renewal in a Malian
Islamic Borderland
Esther Kuhn
24. Building as Propaganda: A Palimpsest of Faith and Power in the Maghreb
Jorge Correia
25. The Cathedral of Ani, Turkey: From Church to Monument
Heghnar Watenpaugh
APPENDICES
Appendix 1: Glossary
Appendix 2: Bibliographies
Appendix 3: About the Contributors
Index
Mohammad Gharipour, Ph.D. (2009), Georgia Institute of Technology, is Associate Professor of Architecture at Morgan State University. He is the author and editor of several books including Persian Gardens and Pavilions: Reflections in History, Poetry and the Arts (I.B.Tauris, 2013), Calligraphy in the Muslim World (Edinburgh University Press, 2013), and The Bazaar in the Islamic City (American University Press, 2012). He is the founding editor of the International Journal of Islamic Architecture.
