Earthen architecture in Muslim cultures : historical and anthropological perspectives

This edited volume follows the panel "Earth in Islamic Architecture" organised for the World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES) in Ankara, on the 19th of August 2014. Earthen architecture is well-known among archaeologists and anthropologists whose work extends from Central Asia to Spain, including Africa. However, little collective attention has been paid to earthen architecture within Muslim cultures. This book endeavours to share knowledge and methods of different disciplines such as history, anthropology, archaeology and architecture. Its objective is to establish a link between historical and archaeological studies given that Muslim cultures cannot be dissociated from social history. Contributors: Marinella Arena; Mounia Chekhab-Abudaya; Christian Darles; François-Xavier Fauvelle; Elizabeth Golden; Moritz Kinzel; Rolando Melo da Rosa; Atri Hatef Naiemi; Bertrand Poissonnier; Stéphane Pradines; Paola Raffa and Paul D. Wordsworth Earthen Architecture in Muslim Cultures: Historical and Anthropological Perspectives......Page 3 Copyright......Page 4 Dedication......Page 5 Contents......Page 7 Acknowledgements and Note on Transliteration......Page 9 Notes on Contributors......Page 10 1 Adobe as an Islamic Standard: Vernacular Cosmopolitics......Page 22 2 The Great Mosque of Timbuktu: Seven Centuries of Earthen Architecture......Page 33 3 The Periphery Walls of Sijilmāsa, a Medieval Islamic City in Morocco: Contribution to the Identification of Typological and Functional Variability of the Pisé Technique......Page 48 4 Draa Valley: Tighremt and Igherm, Morocco......Page 66 5 The Use of Earth in the Construction of the Qṣūr in Southeastern Algeria......Page 95 6 Identity and Architecture: The Fātimid Walls in Cairo......Page 115 7 Mud Brick Architecture in Ḥaḍramawt-Yemen under the Quʿaiti and Kathiri Sultanates......Page 157 8 Building on the Shoreline: Insights into the Use of Earth in the Architecture of the Late 18th and 19th Centuries in Qatar......Page 178 9 Residential Compounds: Earthen Architecture in the Central Desert of Iran......Page 214 10 Traditions of Monumental Decoration in the Earthen Architecture of Early Islamic Central Asia......Page 244 11 Ottoman Earth Architecture in Buda (1541–1686)......Page 260 12 Between Tradition and Modernity: Building with Earth in a Contemporary City......Page 278 Index......Page 292 This edited volume follows the panel "Earth in Islamic Architecture" organised for the World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES) in Ankara, on the 19th of August 2014. Earthen architecture is well-known among archaeologists and anthropologists whose work extends from Central Asia to Spain, including Africa. However, little collective attention has been paid to earthen architecture within Muslim cultures. This book endeavours to share knowledge and methods of different disciplines such as history, anthropology, archaeology and architecture. Its objective is to establish a link between historical and archaeological studies given that Muslim cultures cannot be dissociated from social history. Contributors: Marinella Arena; Mounia Chekhab-Abudaya; Christian Darles; François-Xavier Fauvelle; Elizabeth Golden; Moritz Kinzel; Rolando Melo da Rosa; Atri Hatef Naiemi; Bertrand Poissonnier; Stéphane Pradines; Paola Raffa and Paul D. Wordsworth