Ahmad Hamid
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9789774163418
- eISBN:
- 9781617970146
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- American University in Cairo Press
- DOI:
- 10.5743/cairo/9789774163418.003.0004
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Middle Eastern Studies
The new conceptualization of a critical modernity that has emerged from within the writings of Lefebvre, Baudrillard, Latour, and Guy Debordhas brought with it new challenges as well as new ...
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The new conceptualization of a critical modernity that has emerged from within the writings of Lefebvre, Baudrillard, Latour, and Guy Debordhas brought with it new challenges as well as new potentials. Pluralism stands as a determining factor in the continuity of Islamic art and architecture. Islam's overlapping diversity, inherent in its multiculturalism and practiced through its respect for the hybrid, it reveals a religion of a vernacular cosmopolitanism. “Islamic Architecture” is architectural modernity using cultural repertoires that are conventionally associated with Islamic traditions. This book invokes open-ended questions for the new millennium, addressing the essential objectives of continuity within Islamic art and architecture. At its core, Islamic art and architecture always respected man and his habitat.Less
The new conceptualization of a critical modernity that has emerged from within the writings of Lefebvre, Baudrillard, Latour, and Guy Debordhas brought with it new challenges as well as new potentials. Pluralism stands as a determining factor in the continuity of Islamic art and architecture. Islam's overlapping diversity, inherent in its multiculturalism and practiced through its respect for the hybrid, it reveals a religion of a vernacular cosmopolitanism. “Islamic Architecture” is architectural modernity using cultural repertoires that are conventionally associated with Islamic traditions. This book invokes open-ended questions for the new millennium, addressing the essential objectives of continuity within Islamic art and architecture. At its core, Islamic art and architecture always respected man and his habitat.
Nina Macaraig
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- September 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781474434102
- eISBN:
- 9781474460262
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474434102.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Middle Eastern Studies
Bathhouses (hamams) play a prominent role in Turkish culture, because of their architectural value and social function as places of hygiene, relaxation and interaction. As architectural spaces, ...
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Bathhouses (hamams) play a prominent role in Turkish culture, because of their architectural value and social function as places of hygiene, relaxation and interaction. As architectural spaces, hamams have been continuously shaped by social and historical change at many scales. The life story of Mimar Sinan’s Çemberlitaş Hamamı in Istanbul provides an important example: established in 1583/4, it was modernized in the Turkish Republic (since 1923) and now is a tourist attraction. As a social space shared between tourists and Turks, it is a critical site through which to investigate how global tourism affects local traditions and how places provide a nucleus of cultural belonging in a globalized world. This book constitutes the first in-depth, monographic study of a single hamam, espousing an original and experimental biographical approach.Less
Bathhouses (hamams) play a prominent role in Turkish culture, because of their architectural value and social function as places of hygiene, relaxation and interaction. As architectural spaces, hamams have been continuously shaped by social and historical change at many scales. The life story of Mimar Sinan’s Çemberlitaş Hamamı in Istanbul provides an important example: established in 1583/4, it was modernized in the Turkish Republic (since 1923) and now is a tourist attraction. As a social space shared between tourists and Turks, it is a critical site through which to investigate how global tourism affects local traditions and how places provide a nucleus of cultural belonging in a globalized world. This book constitutes the first in-depth, monographic study of a single hamam, espousing an original and experimental biographical approach.
