'Islamic' Architecture

Review: Blair & Bloom, Rivers of Paradise

by Stephennie Mulder

Fortifications fatimides du Caire dans Annales islamologiques

by Pradines Stéphane

INFORME-MEMORIA DE LA IAU EN LAS MANZANAS 1.10 Y 1.11 DEL PLAN PARCIAL RENFE (CÓRDOBA).

by Rafael Hidalgo

Abstract: This paper focus on the archaeological works
held in the area close to the Imperial palatium of... more Abstract: This paper focus on the archaeological works
held in the area close to the Imperial palatium of Cercadilla.
The works document many archaeological phases from Imperial
Roman times to Late Islamic Age. The most important
structures, dated back to the Caliphate, are a huge private
building and many houses included in one of Madinat
Qurtuba’s neighbourhoods.

Informe-Memoria de la Intervención Arqueológica de Urgencia en el aparcamiento bajo el vial norte del Plan Parcial Renfe de Córdoba (segunda fase)

by Rafael Hidalgo

Murillo, J..F.; Ventura, A.; Hidalgo, R.; Bermúdez, J.M.; Fuertes, M.C.; González, M.; Carmona, S. y López, I., en:    Anuario Arqueológico  de  Andalucía, 2000. III/Actividades de Urgencia.Sevilla.       

This paper focus on Phase 2 of the archaeological
works held in the area in which Plan Parcial R.E.N.F.E. is more This paper focus on Phase 2 of the archaeological
works held in the area in which Plan Parcial R.E.N.F.E. is
developed since many years ago. The excavations totally
documented the Caliphate neighbourhood and the huge
building inside located during Phase 1. The works also reveals
the existence of a smaller Late Islamic neighbourhood.

Informe-memoria de la intervención arqueológica de urgencia en el aparcamiento bajo el vial norte del Plan Parcial Renfe (Primera fase)

by Rafael Hidalgo

Ventura, A.; Murillo, J..F.; Hidalgo, R.; Bermúdez, J.M. y Fuertes, M.C., en: Anuario Arqueológico de Andalucía, 2001. III/Actividades de Urgencia. Sevilla.

This paper focus on the archaeological works
held in the area in which Plan Parcial R.E.N.F.E. is developed more This paper focus on the archaeological works
held in the area in which Plan Parcial R.E.N.F.E. is developed
since many years ago. The excavations documented a cemetery
area dated between 4th and 6th centuries and also a Caliphate
neighbourhood in which a huge building was located.

Looking for Modernity/Looking for Heritage. Overlapping European Imageries on Sub-Saharan Urban Environment

by Filippo De Dominicis

Presented at "My Ideal City, a European Project", held in Venice, 12-13 may 2011

Bab al-Tawfiq dans le Muséon

by Pradines Stéphane

Mosquées swahilies dans REMMM

by Pradines Stéphane

Architettura primitiva e città contemporanea. Un caso di studio nel nord del Marocco

by Filippo De Dominicis

Published in "Community/Architecture. 57 contributions of international Researches", Parma, 2010

Reconnaissance de trois villes musulmanes de l'époque médiévale dans l'Ifat

by François-Xavier Fauvelle-Aymar

Co-authored with B. Hirsch, L. Bruxelles, Chalachew Mesfin, A. Chekroun & Deresse Ayenatchew.
Published in "Annales d'Ethiopie", 22, 2006 [released in 2007]: 133-175.

Dervish orders. Τheir presence and the network of tekkes in Ottoman Thessaly [ARIT 21_2_2011]

by Gregory Stournaras

Frederick W. Hasluk , Νικόλαος Γιαννόπουλος: η συμβολή τους στη μελέτη των Οθωμανικών και Ιουδαϊκών μνημείων της Θεσσαλίας / Frederick W. Hasluk, Nikolaos Giannopoulos: Their contribution to the study of Ottoman and Jewish monuments in Thessaly

by Gregory Stournaras

Παρουσίαση στην Ημερίδα που διοργάνωσε το Αρχαιολογικό Μουσείο Βόλου για την "Ιστορία της Αρχαιολογικής Υπηρεσίας και Αρχαιολογικής έρευνας στη Θεσσαλία" / Presented in the Symosium organized from the Archaeological Museum of Volos (Greece) "Τhe History of the Archaeological Service and the Archaeological Research in Thessaly" [17.05.2010]

Fr. W. Hasluck and N. Yannopoulos were the pioneers in the study of Ottoman monuments in Thessaly during the first... more Fr. W. Hasluck and N. Yannopoulos were the pioneers in the study of Ottoman monuments in Thessaly during the first half of the 20th c.  Although they had different starting points and interests, methodology they recognized and argued the distinct elements of the Ottoman period and its monuments. Their research activities and the interpretative approach of the Ottoman culture, proliferation and predominance of Islam, is in proportion to the contemporary interpretation shapes for the culture of previous eras and the evidence of cultural changes. .

Mosques in Poland. Past and present

by Agata S. Nalborczyk

published in: "Muslims in Eastern Europe. Widening the European Discourse on Islam", ed. by K. Górak-Sosnowska, University of Warsaw: Warsaw 2011, pp.183-193.

There are three purpose built mosques in Poland, with another mosque currently under construction.
However,... more There are three purpose built mosques in Poland, with another mosque currently under construction.
However, many more buildings of this kind existed in Poland in the past, owing to the traditionally tolerant laws for religious minorities, including the Muslim faith. During the first half of the 20th century, however, there were cases when it was impossible for mosques to be built because of complexities outside the legal framework. The current legal situation permits construction of sacred buildings by officially recognized denominations, including Islam. Today there are few Muslims in
Poland, approximately 25–35 thousand people, which constitutes about 0.07–0.09%1
of the population.
This article presents the history and legal status of mosques in Poland, with emphasis on the 20th century and the present.

Il palazzo Ayyubide di Shawbak, analisi archeologica e contestualizzazione storica

by Michele Nucciotti

in print, expected 2011, volume editor: Silvia Lusuardi Siena

The paper presents the most recent archaeological interpretation of the Ayyubid audience hall in Shawbak (Shobak,... more The paper presents the most recent archaeological interpretation of the Ayyubid audience hall in Shawbak (Shobak, Shoubak), Jordan. After light archaeological studies carried out by the 'Medieval' Petra Archaeological Mission of the University of Florence in Jordan (est. 1986), under the coordination of the author, the palace was reinterpreted as a derivative architecture inspired by Samarra's Abbasid palaces of IX century. Credit for building the Shawbak palace is given in this paper to sultan Al-Adil, the brother of Saladin, at the end of XII century or in the first years of 1200s. The palace of Shawbak is considered by the author as the clearest "architectural quote" of Samarran architecture in post Crusader Jordan and southern Syria. Ayyubid palaces of Kerak, Ajlun and Bosra are considered derivative of the Shawbak palace.

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Zangi-Period Architecture in Iraqi Kurdistan: Medrese Qubahan at Amedi (´Amadíya)

by Karel Nováček

The paper has been just issued in Zeitschrift für Orient-Archäologie 4. Email me for a copy: knovacek@kar.zcu.cz

The architectural and archaeological survey of the Qubahan School near Amêdi enabled a detailed reconstruction of the... more The architectural and archaeological survey of the Qubahan School near Amêdi enabled a detailed reconstruction of the building development beginning with the foundation of the complex in the 12th century AD. The monument is a rather rare exemple of Atabeg-period architecture in this region that has been neglected by scholars so far.

INTERVIEW: A Genius for Geometry by Matt Bradley

by Samia Rab

Published in: The National, April 17, 2008.

Architektura citadely v Arbílu: Předběžná zpráva o druhé sezóně výzkumu citadely v roce 2007 - The architecture of the Arbil citadel: A preliminary report on the 2nd season of the citadel survey in 2007

by Karel Nováček

"Entre almuédanos y campanas. Constantes sobre la conversión de aljamas en catedrales"

by Eduardo Carrero

Hortus Artium Medievalium, 17 (2011), pp. 185-200

دراسة لمدرسة قبهان في العمادية (dirása al-madrasati Qubahan fí´l-´Amádiyya)

by Karel Nováček

Co-authored with Narmin Ali Muhammad Amin and Abdulmajeed Muhammad Sa´id, issued in Subartu, Journal of Kurdish Association of Archaeologists 4-5/2011

Madrása (Koranic school) Oubahan at Amédi (´Amadíyya) represents a rare exemple of the Zangi-Period architecture in... more Madrása (Koranic school) Oubahan at Amédi (´Amadíyya) represents a rare exemple of the Zangi-Period architecture in the northeast part of the Iraqi Kurdistan. The ruined building complex was subjected to an architectural recording and survey, geophysical prospection and archaeological sondage.

From Montpèlerin to Ṭarābulus al-Mustajadda: The Frankish-Mamluk Succession in Old Tripoli.

by Mathias Piana

in: Urbain Vermeulen, Kristof D’hulster (eds.), Egypt and Syria in the Fatimid, Ayyubid and Mamluk Eras VI, (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta, 183) Leuven 2010, pp. 307-354.

The paper focuses on the conversion of the (ruined) Crusader town of Montpèlerin into the Mamluk town of Tarābulus,... more The paper focuses on the conversion of the (ruined) Crusader town of Montpèlerin into the Mamluk town of Tarābulus, the actual Old Town of Tripoli (Lebanon) at the end of the 13th century. The principal thesis presented here challenges the widespread view that the Mamluk new town of Tripoli (Ṭarābulus al-Mustajadda) was an entirely new foundation on virgin soil. The synopsis of the town´s urban layout and a virtual reconstruction of the Crusader town of Montpèlerin, located at the site before, suggests a different view. Accordingly, the Mamluks made ample use of an infrastructure, which had not been completely destroyed when sultan Baybars razed Montpèlerin in 1268.