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Author:   Caroline ‘Olivia’ M. Wolf (Loyola University Chicago)
Publisher:   Intellect
Imprint:   Intellect Books
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9781835951316

ISBN 10:   1835951317
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   26 September 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Contents   Acknowledgements   Introduction: Transregional Manifestations of Islamic and Islamicate Architecture in the Americas Caroline ‘Olivia’ M. Wolf     PART I: Rethinking the Mudéjar in the Americas: Colonial Contexts   Chapter 1. Design, Disruption, and Disease: Reconstructing the Historical Context of the ‘Mosque-type’ Chapels in Sixteenth-Century Mexico   Luis Carlos Barragán     Chapter 2. ‘A Church of Mosque Proportions’: Debates of Mudéjar Style in New Granada    Juan Ricardo Rey     Chapter 3. Echoes of Mashrabiya in Latin America: Reconsidering the Balconies of Lima   Fernando Luis Martínez Nespral     PART II: Revisiting Orientalism in the Americas: Nineteenth and Twentieth century Forms and Patronage   Chapter 4. The Turkish Style Cozy Corner: Everyday Appropriations of Islamicate Objects and Spaces in the American Parlor, 1885-1910   Sarah Ordu     Chapter 5. Midwest Middle East: Forms of Synthesis in Chicago’s Bahá’í Temple   Vadjon Sohaili     Chapter 6. Constructing Orientalism in Interwar Florida   Emily Neumeier   PART III: Revealing Diasporic Patronage in the Americas: Modern and Contemporary Representational and Religious Space   Chapter 7. Crafting Cosmopolitanism in the Brazilian Mahjar: Eclecticism, Orientalism and the Syrian-Lebanese Architectural Patronage of the Jafet family in Centennial São Paulo   Caroline ‘Olivia’ M. Wolf     Chapter 8. Independent and/or Instrumentalized: Surveying Mosque Architecture in Chile (1986-2006)’   Courtney Lesoon     Chapter 9. Canadian Mosques: Hybridity of Form and Program   Tammy Gaber     Chapter 10. Diasporic Aesthetics and the Genealogy of an Urban Mosque: An Analysis of the Islamic Center of the Washington D.C. Islamic Center   Akel Kahera     Contributor Biographies    

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Caroline ‘Olivia’ M. Wolf is an assistant professor of Art History at Loyola University Chicago, USA. Her research emphasizes diasporic and transregional visual intersections across the Global South, with areas of specialization in Latin American modernism, as well as Middle Eastern art and architecture. Wolf’s work has been supported by fellowships from the Fulbright-Hays DDRA, the National Endowment of the Humanities (NEH), the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), and the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH).

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