Architecture of Anxiety, Body Politics and the Formation of Islamic Architecture
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| Author | : Heba Mostafa |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 182 |
| Release | : 2024-03-04 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9789004690189 |
| ISBN-13 | : 9004690182 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (89 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Architecture of Anxiety, Body Politics and the Formation of Islamic Architecture by : Heba Mostafa
Book excerpt: 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.
