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Author:   Farhan S. Karim ,  Patricia Blessing (Stanford University)
Publisher:   Intellect
Imprint:   Intellect Books
Edition:   New edition
ISBN:  

9781789388510

ISBN 10:   1789388511
Pages:   390
Publication Date:   26 January 2024
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Figures vii Acknowledgements xiii Introduction: Confining Contingency 1 Farhan Karim   Chapter 1. Housing Others: Design and Identity in a Bedouin Village 21 Noam Shoked Chapter 2. Building for the Lost Lands: Ottoman Architects in Mandatory Palestine and the Case of Hassan Bey Mosque 51 Müjde Dila Gümüs¸ Chapter 3. The First Aussie Mosques: Mediating Boundaries despite the ‘White Australia’ Policy 77 Katharine Bartsch, Md. Mizanur Rashid, and Peter Scriver Chapter 4. Architecture of Exclusion: The Savujbulagh-i Mukri Garrison, Border-Making, and the Transformation of the Ottoman-Qajar Frontier 111 Nader Sayadi Chapter 5. Staging Baghdad as a Problem of Development 139 Huma Gupta Chapter 6. Tehran’s Decentralization Project and the Emergence of Modern Socio-Spatial Boundaries 167 Elmira Jafari and Carola Hein Chapter 7. Reconstructing the Muslim Self in Diaspora: Socio-Spatial Practices in Urban European Mosques 193 Elisabeth Becker Chapter 8. The Search for the Mosque of Florence: A Space of Negotiated Identities 219 Hanan Kataw Chapter 9. The Rome Mosque and Islamic Center: A Case of Diasporic Architecture in the Globalized Mediterranean 237 Theodore Van Loan and Eva-Maria Troelenberg Chapter 10. One House of Worship with Many Rooves: Imposing Architecture to Mediate Sunni, Alevi, and Gülenist Islam in Turkey 253 Angela Andersen Chapter 11. Architectural Modes of Collective Identity: The Case of Hizbullah’s ‘Mleeta Tourist Landmark of the Resistance’ in South Lebanon 277 Heike Delitz and Stefan Maneval Chapter 12. The Bangladesh Liberation War Museum and the Inconclusivity of Architecture 309 Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi   Contributor Biographies 353 Index 359

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Farhan Karim is an associate professor in the School of Architecture and Design at the University of Kansas and the current president of the Society of Architectural and Urban Historians of Asia. He worked as an architect, interior designer and furniture designer in Bangladesh and Australia. Patricia Blessing is associate professor of art and art history at Stanford University.

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