Modernity and Community : Architecture in the Islamic World: Aga Khan award for Architecture [1 ed.] 0500283303, 9780500283301

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Modernity and Community : Architecture in the Islamic World: Aga Khan award for Architecture [1 ed.]
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Explores the design and development of synagogues in the Islamic world This beautifully illustrated volume looks at the

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Collects Yasser Tabbaa’s writings on transformations in Islamic architecture and ornament in relation to parallel theolo

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The ongoing debate among practitioners and in academia about the meaning and understanding of Islamic architecture will

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Since precious few architectural drawings and no theoretical treatises on architecture remain from the premodern Islamic

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Since the 1950s Prince and Princess Sadruddin Aga Khan have collected Islamic and Indian paintings and drawings, includi

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Since the days of Ignaz Goldziher (1850-1921), generally regarded as the founder of Islamic studies as a field of modern

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This volume engages with notions of lateness and modernity in medieval architecture, broadly conceived geographically, t

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Shedding light on the intricacies of designing and constructing traditional log cabins, this book presents three project

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