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Architecture of Anxiety, Body Politics and the Formation of Islamic Architecture

Architecture of Anxiety, Body Politics and the Formation of Islamic Architecture

Hardcover

Series: Arts and Archaeology of the Islamic World, Book 20

Art HistoryGeneral Asian HistoryGeneral Architecture

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ISBN10: 9004677771
ISBN13: 9789004677777
Publisher: Brill
Published: Mar 12 2024
Pages: 180
Weight: 1.67
Height: 0.59 Width: 7.83 Depth: 10.52
Language: English
Structured as five microhistories c. 632-705, this book offers a counternarrative for the formation of Islamic architecture and the Islamic state. It adopts a novel periodization informed by moments of historical violence and anxiety around caliphal identities in flux, animating histories of the minbar, throne, and maqsura as a principal nexus for navigating this anxiety. It expands outward to re-assess the mosque and palace with a focus on the Qubbat al-Khadraʾ and the Dar al-Imara in Kufa. It culminates in a reading of the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem as a site where eschatological anxieties and political survival converge.

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