Research Guides: RELG 108: Vocabularies of Islam (HC): Architecture

Architecture

Islamic architecture: form, function and meaning
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The standard authoritative survey.
Islam: from Medina to the Magreb and from the Indies to Istanbul
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Hundreds of photographs accompany a useful text.
Islamic architecture
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Focus of this survey is the mosque and the palace.
Islam and Muslim art
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The mosque and the modern world: architects, patrons and designs since the 1950s
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Looks at seventy mosques built from the 1950s up to the 1990s. Detailed information on each mosque as well as good photographs.
Deconstructing the American mosque: space, gender, and aesthetics
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Minaret, symbol of Islam
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The Mosque: history, architectural development & regional diversity
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After chapters on the role of calligraphy and the applications of geometry, later chapters provide a geographical survey and finish with a chapter on contemporary mosques.

Specialized Topics

The minarets of Cairo: Islamic architecture from the Arab conquest to the end of the Ottoman period
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The first eighty pages has a useful discussion on minarets in general. The rest of the book is devoted to Cairo.
Design criteria for mosques and Islamic centres: art, architecture and worship
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Interesting book intended to inform architects of factors to take into consideration.
A history of Ottoman architecture
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The mosque: political, architectural and social transformations
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While focusing on the Netherlands, the issues it raises about architectural design are applicable elsewhere in the contemporary world.
Mosques of Istanbul: including the mosques of Bursa and Edirine
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