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Traditional Islamic Principles of Built Environment

Author : Hisham Mortada
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135788006
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (357 download)

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Download or read book Traditional Islamic Principles of Built Environment written by Hisham Mortada and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-12-16 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written with the non-Muslim reader in mind, this book analyses the principles and values established by Islamic tradition to govern the social and physical environments of Muslims. The picture of Islam that emerges from this work is of a way of life with social ideals. Relying on the Qur'an and Sunna, the basic sources of Islamic law, and using examples of the built environment of early Muslims in North Africa, the Middle East, Europe and Central Asia, the author explains how following these ideals can create an urban environment that responds to social and environmental variables.Islamic views on the controversial issue of modernisation are also examined. This book will be of interest to people in the fields of urban planning, architecture, sociology, anthropology, housing and built environment, as well as Islamic studies.

Modernisation of Chinese Culture

Author : Jana S. Rošker
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443867721
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Modernisation of Chinese Culture written by Jana S. Rošker and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-09-26 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The editors are grateful to the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for its generous support of their research work which enabled them to publish the present book. The present book carefully maps the Chinese modernisation discourse, highlighting its relationship to other, similar discourses, and situating it within historical and theoretical contexts. In contrast to the majority of recent discussions of a “Chinese development model” that tend to focus more on institutional then cultural factors, and are more narrowly concerned with economic matters than overall social development, the book offers several important focal points for many presently overlooked issues and dilemmas. The multifaceted perspectives contained in this anthology are not limited to economic, social, and ecological issues, but also include political and social functions of ideologies and cultural conditioned values, representing the axial epistemological grounds of modern Chinese society. 2011 was the 100th anniversary of the Xinhai Revolution. The centennial is relevant not only in terms of state ideology, but also plays a significant role within academic research into Chinese society and culture. This historic turning point likewise represents the symbolic and concrete linkages and tensions between tradition and modernity, progress and conservatism, traditional values and the demands for adjustment to contemporary societies. The book shows that Chinese transition from tradition to modernity cannot be understood in a framework of a unified general model of society, but rather through a more complex insight into the interrelations among elements of physical environment, social structure, philosophy, history, and culture.

Political influences and paradigm shifts in the Contemporary Arab Cities

Author : Mashary Al-Naim
Publisher : EDUCatt - Ente per il diritto allo studio universitario dell'Università Cattolica
ISBN 13 : 8867803891
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (678 download)

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Download or read book Political influences and paradigm shifts in the Contemporary Arab Cities written by Mashary Al-Naim and published by EDUCatt - Ente per il diritto allo studio universitario dell'Università Cattolica. This book was released on 2014-06-06 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Structure of the Ordinary

Author : N. J. Habraken
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262581950
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (819 download)

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Download or read book The Structure of the Ordinary written by N. J. Habraken and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2000-08-25 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The influential Dutch architect's long-awaited manifesto on the everyday environment as the first and best ground for establishing the significance and coherence of architecture. According to N. J. Habraken, intimate and unceasing interaction between people and the forms they inhabit uniquely defines built environment. The Structure of the Ordinary, the culmination of decades of environmental observation and design research, is a recognition and analysis of everyday environment as the wellspring of urban design and formal architecture. The author's central argument is that built environment is universally organized by the Orders of Form, Place, and Understanding. These three fundamental, interwoven principles correspond roughly to physical, biological, and social domains. Historically, "ordinary" environment was the background against which architects built the "extraordinary." Drawing upon extensive examples from archaeological and contemporary sites worldwide, the author illustrates profound recent shifts in the structure of everyday environment. One effect of these transformations, Habraken argues, has been the loss of implicit common understanding that previously enabled architects to formally enhance and innovate while still maintaining environmental coherence. Consequently, architects must now undertake a study of the ordinary as the fertile common ground in which form- and place-making are rooted. In focusing on built environment as an autonomous entity distinct from the societies and natural environments that jointly create it, this book lays the foundation for a new dialogue on methodology and pedagogy, in support of a more informed approach to professional intervention.

Museums in Arabia

Author : Karen Exell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317092767
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Museums in Arabia written by Karen Exell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-12 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Museum activity has, in recent years, undergone major and rapid development in the Arabian Peninsula, with the regeneration of existing museums as well as the establishment of new ones. Alongside such rapid expansion, questions are inevitably raised as to the new challenges museums face in this region and whether the museum, as a central focus of heritage preservation, also runs the risk of overshadowing local forms of heritage performance and preservation. With contributions from leading academics from a range of disciplines and heritage practitioners with first-hand experience of working in the region, this volume addresses the issues and challenges facing museums in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Yemen and the UAE. It focuses on the themes of politics, public engagement and the possibility of a new museum paradigm which might appropriately reflect the interests and culture of the region. The interdisciplinary approaches analyse museum development from both an inside and outside perspective, suggesting that museums do not follow a uniform trajectory across the region, but are embedded within each states’ socio-cultural context, individual government agendas and political realities. Including case study analysis, which brings the more marginal nations into the debates, as well as new empirical data and critical evaluation of the role of the museum in the Arabian Peninsula societies, this book adds fresh perspectives to the study of Gulf heritage and museology. It will appeal to regional and international practitioners and academics across the disciplines of museum studies, cultural studies, and anthropology as well as to anyone with an interest in the Gulf and Middle East.

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Publisher : Kotobarabia.com
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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The Contemporary Study of the Arab World

Author : Earl L. Sullivan
Publisher : University of Alberta
ISBN 13 : 9780888642110
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (421 download)

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Download or read book The Contemporary Study of the Arab World written by Earl L. Sullivan and published by University of Alberta. This book was released on 1991 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributors discuss issues central to the debate about the "proper" study of Arabs and Islam, methodological perspectives on the study of the Arab World, urban studies, women's studies, economics and economic policy, foreign policy and strategic studies.

The Places Where Men Pray Together

Author : Paul Wheatley
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226894282
Total Pages : 591 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book The Places Where Men Pray Together written by Paul Wheatley and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 591 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What makes a city an economic, political, and cultural center? In The Places Where Men Pray Together, Paul Wheatley draws on two decades of astonishingly wide-ranging research to demonstrate that Islamic cities are defined by function rather than form—by what they do rather than what they are. Focusing on the roles of cities during the first four centuries of Islamic expansion, Wheatley explores interconnected cultural, historical, economic, political, and religious factors to provide the clearest and most extensively documented portrait of early Islamic urban centers available to date. Building on the tenth-century geographer al-Maqdisi's writings on urban centers of the Islamic world, buttressed by extensive comparative material from roadbooks, topographies, histories, adab literatures, and gazetteers of the time, Wheatley identifies the main functions of different Islamic urban centers. Chapters on each of the thirteen centers that al-Maqdisi identified, ranging from the Atlantic to the Indus and from the Caspian to the Sudan, form the heart of this book. In each case Wheatley shows how specific agglomeration and accessibility factors combined to make every city functionally distinct as a creator of effective space. He also demonstrates that, far from revolutionizing every aspect of life in these cities, the adoption of Islam often affected the development of these cities less than previously existing local traditions. The Places Where Men Pray Together is a monumental work that will speak to scholars and readers across a broad variety of disciplines, from historians, anthropologists, and sociologists to religious historians, archaeologists, and geographers.

Living with Heritage in Cairo

Author : Ahmed Sedky
Publisher : American University in Cairo Press
ISBN 13 : 1617973742
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book Living with Heritage in Cairo written by Ahmed Sedky and published by American University in Cairo Press. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Arab-Islamic city has been always a glamorous urban dream in human cultural memory. This is manifested in Cairo, the world's largest medieval urban system where traditional lifestyles are still implemented. Nevertheless, despite the extensive efforts to preserve Historic Cairo, it is sadly vulnerable. Ahmed Sedky investigates the reasons behind this condition, exploring and comparing regional and international case studies. Questions such as how and what to conserve are raised and elaborated through the perspectives of different stakeholders. A resulting evaluative framework is accumulated that underpins the criteria for assessing area conservation in the Arab-Islamic context and that can be used to delineate the causes responsible for the present condition of Historic Cairo.

Representing the Nation

Author : Pamela Erskine-Loftus
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317429869
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book Representing the Nation written by Pamela Erskine-Loftus and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-26 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1970s saw the emergence and subsequent proliferation across the Arabian Peninsula of ‘national museums’, institutions aimed at creating social cohesion and affiliation to the state within a disparate population. Representing the Nation examines the wide-ranging use of exhibitionary forms of national identity projection via consideration of their motivations, implications (current and future), possible historical backgrounds, official and unofficial meanings, and meanings for both the user/visitor and the multiple creators. The book responds to, due to the importance placed on tradition, heritage and national identity across all the states of the Peninsula, and the growth of re-imagined and new museums, the need for far greater discussion and research in these areas.

The City in the Islamic World (2 vols.)

Author : Salma Khadra Jayyusi
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047442652
Total Pages : 1520 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book The City in the Islamic World (2 vols.) written by Salma Khadra Jayyusi and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008-06-30 with total page 1520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this book is to draw attention to the sites of life, politics and culture where current and past generations of the Islamic world have made their mark. Unlike many previous volumes dealing with the city in the Islamic world, this one has been expanded not only to include snapshots of historical fabric, but also to deal with the transformation of this fabric into modern and contemporary urban entities. Salma Khadra Jayyusi was awarded Cultural Personality of the Year by the Sheikh Zayed Book Award for her profound contribution to Arabic literature and culture in 2020. The paperback edition of The City in the Islamic World was published to celebrate the occasion.

Understanding Islamic Architecture

Author : Attilo Petruccioli
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136851380
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (368 download)

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Download or read book Understanding Islamic Architecture written by Attilo Petruccioli and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ongoing debate among practitioners and in academia about the meaning and understanding of Islamic architecture will be energized by this book. It contains essays by architects and academics from various parts of the world which clarify how the carious disciplines of the design profession can be employed to build in the spirit of Islam. Divided into three sections the book covers: *meaning from Faith, which draws meaning from the Islamic faith in order to propose a built environment that is universally beneficial *analysis of History, which examines historical buildings and planning concepts, and suggest how to apply lessons learned to contemporary practice *contemporary Trends, which discusses current trends in architecture, education and socio-economic aspects of various Muslim countries. Illustrated throughout, this book will appeal to students and scholars, practising architects and planners alike.

Cairo

Author : André Raymond
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674003163
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Cairo written by André Raymond and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The extraordinary tapestry of Cairo's past and present comes vividly to life in this magisterial study by one of the top social historians of the Arab world. This deeply observed account shows Cairo from the glimmer of its beginnings in the Arab conquest of Egypt in 640 through its transformation into the modern center of Middle Eastern life today. 63 halftones. Maps & tables.

Jews and Islamic Law in Early 20th-Century Yemen

Author : Mark S. Wagner
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253014921
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Jews and Islamic Law in Early 20th-Century Yemen written by Mark S. Wagner and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In early 20th-century Yemen, a sizable Jewish population was subject to sumptuary laws and social restrictions. Jews regularly came into contact with Islamic courts and Muslim jurists, by choice and by necessity, became embroiled in the most intimate details of their Jewish neighbors’ lives. Mark S. Wagner draws on autobiographical writings to study the careers of three Jewish intermediaries who used their knowledge of Islamic law to manipulate the shari‘a for their own benefit and for the good of their community. The result is a fresh perspective on the place of religious minorities in Muslim societies.

Planning Middle Eastern Cities

Author : Yasser Elsheshtawy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134410093
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book Planning Middle Eastern Cities written by Yasser Elsheshtawy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-08-02 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Middle Eastern cities cannot be lumped together as a single group. Rather they make up the urban kaleidoscope of the title, as the diversity of the six cities included here shows. They range from cities rich in tradition (Cairo, Tunis, and Baghdad), to neglected cities (Algiers and Sana'a), to newly emerging 'oil-rich' Gulf cities (Dubai). The authors are all young Arab scholars and architects local to the cities they describe, providing an authentic voice with an understanding no outsider could achieve. These contributors move away from an exclusively 'Islamic' reading of Arab cities - which they regard as outdated and counterproductive. Instead, they explore issues of identity and globalization in the context of the struggles and solutions offered by each city from the late nineteenth century to the present day. Their focus is on how the built environment has changed over time and under different influences.

The Imperatives of Urban and Regional Planning

Author : Anis Ur Rahmaan
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1465336699
Total Pages : 660 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (653 download)

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Download or read book The Imperatives of Urban and Regional Planning written by Anis Ur Rahmaan and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-08-18 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is comprised of articles and papers that have come about after years of academic and applied research endeavors of the practitioners and academicians in the field of urban and regional development planning. Most of these articles have already been presented and deliberated in national and international conferences held in different parts of the world, namely: Indianapolis, Newcastle upon Tyne, Rome, Istanbul, Cairo, Alexandria, Vienna, Stockholm, Jeddah, Riyadh, Jubail, Islamabad, Penang, and Bandung. The concepts and case studies described in this book bring home the fact that the world is undergoing a gyrational transition. Not only are developed and developing countries getting influenced by each other and transforming due to a process of circular causation, but each of the two sets of countries are also undergoing a simultaneous internal transformation due to the differential infusion of technology and indigenous entrepreneurship. As a consequence, highly diversified urban systems are getting integrated interactively, leading to the formation of a global village and achievement of a unity in diversity!

Islamic Images and Ideas

Author : John Andrew Morrow
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786458488
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Islamic Images and Ideas written by John Andrew Morrow and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-11-25 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These 24 studies on specific symbols, images and icons from the Muslim tradition are authored by scholars from around the world. Divided into four sections, the Divine, the Spiritual, the Physical, and the Societal, they examine theological issues, such as divine unity, creation, wrath, and justice, as well as spiritual subjects, such as the straight path, servitude, perfection, the jinn, intoxication, and the status of Fatimah, the daughter of the Prophet Muhammad. Essays also explore the symbolism of physical elements such as water, trees, seas, ships, food, the male sexual organ, eyebrows, and camels; and the significance of more socially-centered subjects such as the center, ijtihad, governance, otherness, Ashura, and Arabic. Drawing from the Qur'an and Sunnah, the essays address these topics with tact and respect from a position that appreciates exegetical diversity while remaining within the realm of unity.