Islamic Architecture on the Move

This book brings together scholars from architectural studies, design, art history and other fields to challenge and expand concepts of Islamic architecture. Ranging from eighteenth-century Ottoman tents to Islamic motifs in 1960s Hawaii, this volume raises key questions about Islamic architecture and material, artistic and cultural mobility.

Even a casual observer can spy traces of Islamic architecture and design on buildings all over the world, a reminder that artistic traditions and visual culture have never been limited to their region or country of origin, but rather are highly diffusible.

This book brings together scholars from architectural studies, design, art history and other fields to challenge and expand concepts of Islamic architecture. Ranging from eighteenth-century Ottoman tents to manifestations of Islamic motifs in 1960s Hawaii, this richly illustrated volume raises key questions about Islamic architecture, and, more broadly, about how we can rethink our understanding of material, artistic and cultural mobility in the modern world.

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1: Islamic Architecture on the Move

Christiane Gruber

Chapter 2: Karbala in Lucknow: An Itinerary of Architectural Mobility

Elise Kamleh and Katherine Bartsch

Chapter 3: The Mobile Matrix: The Hijaz Railway as Ritual Space and Generator of Space

David Simonowitz

Chapter 4: Fabricating a New Image: Imperial Tents in the Late Ottoman Period

Ashley Dimmig

Chapter 5: Mobility and Ambivalences: Negotiating Architectural Identities during Khedive Ismail’s Reign (1863–79)

Marwa M. El-Ashmouni

Chapter 6: ‘In the Absence of Originals’: Replicating the Tilework of Safavid Isfahan for South Kensington

Moya Carey

Chapter 7: Relocating to Hawai‘i: Dwelling with Islamic Art at Doris Duke’s Shangri La

Olga Bush

Chapter 8: The Urban Fabric of Cairo: Khayamiya and the Suradeq

Sam Bowker

Note on Contributors