Sacred Precincts: The Religious Architecture of Non-Muslim Communities Across the Islamic World (Arts and Archaeology of the Islamic World)

This Book Examines Non-muslim Religious Sites, Structures And Spaces In The Islamic World. It Reveals A Vibrant Portrait Of Life In The Religious Sites By Illustrating How Architecture Responds To Contextual Issues And Traditions. Sacred Precincts Explores Urban Context; Issues Of Identity; Design; Construction; Transformation And The History Of Sacred Sites And Architecture In Europe, The Middle East And Africa From The Advent Of Islam To The 20th Century. It Includes Case Studies On Churches And Synagogues In Iran, Turkey, Cyprus, Egypt, Iraq, Tunisia, Morocco And Malta, And On Sacred Sites In Nigeria, Mali, And The Gambia. With Contributions By Clara Alvarez, Angela Andersen, Karen Britt, Karla Britton, Jorge Manuel Simão Alves Correia, Elvan Cobb, Daniel Coslett, Mohammad Gharipour, Mattia Guidetti, Suna Güven, Esther Kühn, Amy Landau, Ayla Lepine, Theo Maarten Van Lint, David Mallia, Erin Maglaque, Susan Miller, A.a. Muhammad-oumar, Meltem Özkan Altınöz, Jennifer Pruitt, Rafael Sedighpour, Ann Shafer, Jorge Manuel Simão Alves Correia, Ebru Özeke Tökmeci, Steven Thomson, Heghnar Watenpaugh, Alyson Wharton And Ethel S. Wolper.-- Identity -- Design -- Construction -- Re-use. Edited By Mohammad Gharipour. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 486-531) And Index. Sacred Precincts: The Religious Architecture of Non-Muslim Communities across the Islamic World 4 Copyright 5 Dedication 6 Contents 8 Preface: Non-Muslim Sacred Sites in the Muslim World 12 Acknowledgements 27 List of Figures 28 About the Contributors 35 Introduction 40 PART 1: Identity 48 1 Churches Attracting Mosques: Religious Architecture in Early Islamic Syria 50 2 To Condone or to Contest?: Ethnic Identity and Religious Architecture in The Gambia 67 3 Jigo: The Essence of the Non-Tangible Architecture of the Hausa Traditional Religion 82 4 Muslims Viewed as ‘Non-Muslims’: The Alevi Precincts of Anatolia 96 5 Identity and Style: Armenian-Ottoman Churches in the Nineteenth Century 115 6 Apportioning Sacred Space in a Moroccan City: The Case of Tangier, 1860–1912 145 7 Politics of Place in the Middle East and World Heritage Status for Jerusalem 162 PART 2: Design 180 8 Devotional and Artistic Responses to Contested Space in Old Cairo: The Case of Al-Mu?allaqah 182 9 Sacred Geometries: The Dynamics of ‘Islamic’ Ornament in Jewish and Coptic Old Cairo 197 10 Synagogues of Isfahan: The Architecture of Resignation and Integration 217 11 Gothic Portability: The Crimean Memorial Church, Istanbul and the Threshold of Empire 242 12 A Catholic Church in an Islamic Capital: Historicism and Modernity in the St Antoine Church 258 13 Cultural Horizontality: Auguste Perret in the Middle East 279 PART 3: Construction 296 14 Through a Glass Brightly: Christian Communities in Palestine and Arabia During the Early Islamic Period 298 15 The Miracle of Muqattam: Moving a Mountain to Build a Church in Fatimid Egypt 316 16 The Catholic Consecration of an Islamic House: The St John de Matha Trinitarian Hospital in Tunis 330 17 Armenian Merchant Patronage of New Julfa’s Sacred Spaces 347 18 The Tofre Begadim Synagogue and the Non-Muslim Policy of the Late Ottoman Empire 373 19 (Re)Creating a Christian Image Abroad: The Catholic Cathedrals of Protectorate-Era Tunis 392 PART 4: Re-use 416 20 Khidr and the Politics of Translation in Mosul: Mar Behnam, St George and Khidr Ilyas 418 21 Muslim Influences in Post-Arab Malta: The Hal Millieri Church 432 22 St Sophia in Nicosia, Cyprus: From a Lusignan Cathedral to an Ottoman Mosque 454 23 Maribayasa: Negotiating Gold, Spirits and Islamic Renewal in a Malian Islamic Borderland 470 24 Building as Propaganda: A Palimpsest of Faith and Power in the Maghreb 484 25 The Cathedral of Ani, Turkey: From Church to Monument 499 Glossary 514 Bibliography 526 Index 571 Sacred Precincts examines non-Muslim religious sites in the Islamic world, revealing how architecture responds to contextual issues and traditions. It explores urban contexts; issues of identity; design; construction; transformation and the history of sacred sites in the Middle East and Africa from the advent of Islam to the 20th century. The book includes case studies on churches, synagogues and sacred sites in Iran; Turkey; Cyprus; Egypt; Iraq; Tunisia; Morocco; Malta; Nigeria; Mali, and the Gambia