Expertise and Architecture in the Modern Islamic World: A Critical Anthology (Critical Studies in Architecture of the Middle East)

" Expertise and Architecture in the Modern Islamic World explores how architectural traditions and practices were shared and exchanged across national borders throughout the world, departing from a narrative that casts European actors as the importers and exporters of Islamic designs and skills. Looking to cases that touch on empire building, modernization, statecraft, and diplomacy, this book examines how these processes have been contingent on a web of expertise informed by a rich and varied array of authors and contexts since the 1800s. The chapters in this volume, organized around the leitmotif of expertise, demonstrate the thematic importance and specific utility of in-depth and broad-ranging knowledge in shaping the understanding of architecture in the Islamic world from the nineteenth century to the present. Specific case studies include European gardeners in Ottoman courts, Polish architects in Kuwait, Israeli expertise in Iran, monument archiving in India, religious spaces in Swedish suburbs, and more. This is the latest title in Critical Studies in Architecture of the Middle East, a series devoted to the most recent scholarship concerning architecture, landscape, and urban design of the Middle East and of regions shaped by diasporic communities more globally." From book jacket Contents 6 Acknowledgements 8 Introduction • Peter H. Christensen 10 1. ‘I don’t want orange trees, I want something that others don’t have’: Ottoman Head-Gardeners after Mahmud II • Deniz Türker 30 2. A Nineteenth-Century Architectural Archive: Syed Ahmad Khan’s Āṣār-us-Ṣanādīd • Mrinalini Rajagopalan 60 3. The Balyan Family and the Linguistic Culture of a Parisian Education • Alyson Wharton 94 4. Drawing Knowledge, (Re-)Constructing History: Pascal Coste in Egypt • Eva-Maria Troelenberg 132 5. A Bourguibist Mural in the New Monastir? Zoubeïr Turki’s Play on Knowledge, Power, and Audience Perception • Jessica Gerschultz 160 6. Expertise in the Name of Diplomacy: The Israeli Plan for Rebuilding the Qazvin Region, Iran • Neta Feniger and Rachel Kallus 188 7. Industrial Complexes, Foreign Expertise, and the Imagining of a New Levant • Dan Handel and Alona Nitzan-Shiftan 222 8. Mobilities of Architecture in the Global Cold War: From Socialist Poland to Kuwait and Back • Łukasz Stanek 246 9. Form Follows Faith: Swedish Architects, Expertise, and New Religious Spaces in the Stockholm Suburbs • Jennifer Mack 280 Notes on Contributors 296 Index 300 __Expertise and Architecture in the Modern Islamic World__