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Item Number: 132152
Title: Sacred Precincts : The Religious Architecture of Non-Muslim Communities Across the Islamic World
Author: Gharipour, Mohammad (ed)
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9789004279063
Description: Leiden: Brill, 2014. 25cm., hardcover, 572pp., 206 illus.

Contents: 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, 1860-1912, Susan Gilson Miller ; 7. Politics of Place in the Middle East and World Heritage Status for Jerusalem, Elvan Cobb ; 8. Devotional and Artistic Responses to Contested Space in Old Cairo: The Case of Al-Mu'allaqah, 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 Ozeke Tokmeci ; 13. Cultural Horizontality: Auguste Perret in the Middle East, Karla Britton ; 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 Álvarez Dopico ; 17. Armenian Merchant Patronage of New Julfa's 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 Ozkan Alt?noz ; 19. (Re)Creating a Christian Image Abroad: The Catholic Cathedrals of Protectorate-Era Tunism Daniel Coslett ; 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 Ku?hn ; 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. (Arts and Archaeology of the Islamic World, 3)

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