Earthen Architecture in Muslim Cultures, : Historical and Anthropological Perspectives.

• Author: Stéphane Pradines (Editor)
• TeilnehmendeR: Pradines, Stéphane,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, , Boston: : Brill, , 2018.
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Arts and Archaeology of the Islamic World 10.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (294 pages)
• Other title: Front Matter --; Copyright Page --; -- Contents --; Acknowledgements and Note on Transliteration --; Notes on Contributors --; Introduction: An Architecture for the Caliph and the Poor /; Adobe as an Islamic Standard: Vernacular Cosmopolitics /; The Great Mosque of Timbuktu: Seven Centuries of Earthen Architecture /; The Periphery Walls of Sijilmāsa, a Medieval Islamic City in Morocco: Contribution to the Identification of Typological and Functional Variability of the Pisé Technique /; Draa Valley: Tighremt and Igherm, Morocco /; The Use of Earth in the Construction of the Qṣūrin Southeastern Algeria /; Identity and Architecture: The Fāṭimid Walls in Cairo /; Mud Brick Architecture in Ḥaḍramawt-Yemen under the Quʿaiti and Kathiri Sultanates /; Building on the Shoreline: Insights into the Use of Earth in the Architecture of the Late 18th and 19th Centuries in Qatar /; Residential Compounds: Earthen Architecture in the Central Desert of Iran /; Traditions of Monumental Decoration in the Earthen Architecture of Early Islamic Central Asia /; Ottoman Earth Architecture in Buda (1541–1686) /; Between Tradition and Modernity: Building with Earth in the Contemporary City /
• ISBN: 9004356339
• Hierarchical level: Monograph

This edited volume follows the panel “Earth in Islamic Architecture” organised for the World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES) in Ankara, on the 19th of August 2014. Earthen architecture is well-known among archaeologists and anthropologists whose work extends from Central Asia to Spain, including Africa. However, little collective attention has been paid to earthen architecture within Muslim cultures. This book endeavours to share knowledge and methods of different disciplines such as history, anthropology, archaeology and architecture. Its objective is to establish a link between historical and archaeological studies given that Muslim cultures cannot be dissociated from social history. Contributors: Marinella Arena; Mounia Chekhab-Abudaya; Christian Darles; François-Xavier Fauvelle; Elizabeth Golden; Moritz Kinzel; Rolando Melo da Rosa; Atri Hatef Naiemi; Bertrand Poissonnier; Stéphane Pradines; Paola Raffa and Paul D. Wordsworth.