The Making of the Village in the Islamic World
Architecture, Rural Life, and their Entangled Histories
The Making of the Village in the Islamic World
Architecture, Rural Life, and their Entangled Histories
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Architectural and urban histories of the Islamic world have mostly focused on cities and urban communities, leaving many societies in rural areas largely unnoticed or marginalized. This book addresses this gap, exploring the making of villages and the architectural history of rural settlements across the Islamic world.
Bringing together chapters and case studies from the early modern period to the twentieth century, exploring rural landscapes from the Middle East to the Balkans and North Africa, and combining fieldwork and archival research with historic travelers' accounts and contemporary chronicles, the studies presented here reveal that there is much to learn from these hitherto neglected sites.
Three chronological sections examine the premodern world; Islamic villages in imperial, colonial, and postcolonial contexts; and the transformations and modernizations of the twentieth century, respectively. The chapters themselves shed light on subjects ranging from infrastructure, urban planning, and architectural design in Islamic rural landscapes; to the importance of villages in global trade routes and the spread of goods, artworks, ideas, and material culture; and the dynamics of rural Islamic societies and how their interactions affect the growth of settlements.
Revealing how Islamic villages evolved across diverse cultural, political, economic, and physical contexts – and how they can give potent architectural form to Islamic cultural identities – this book provides an invaluable resource for researchers in Islamic architecture, architectural history, urban studies, Islamic studies, and heritage studies.
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Table of Contents
Introduction - The Village in the Islamic World: Conceptualizing the Rural Through Spatiality, Social History, and Material Culture - Mohammad Gharipour (University of Maryland, USA) and Kivanç Kilinç (Izmir Institute of Technology, Türkiye)
I. Village or Town? Infrastructure and Dwellings in Premodern Rural Landscapes
1. Building a Town from Scratch: Murad II's Ergene Waqf - Irem Gündüz-Polat (Ghent University, Belgium)
2. Urbanizing Villages? The Foundation of Sarajevo from a Rural Perspective - Vincent Thérounin (Sorbonne University, France)
3. Between Village and Town: Settlements on a Salt Road in Epirus and the Frame for Re-considering a Late-Ottoman Countryside - Alexandra Koumpouli (Koç University, Turkey)
II. Contested Heritages: (Post)Colonial and National Contexts
4. Cultivating Fields and Souls: Tunisia's Colonial Agricultural Settlements and their Catholic Churches - Daniel E. Coslett (Drexel University, USA)
5. Mualla Eyüboglu's Experience of 1940s Rural Anatolia: Localizing Modern Construction - Isil Çokugras and C. Irem Gençer (both Yildiz Technical University, Turkey)
6. Consolidating the Rule of Experts: A Model Village for Refugees in the Jordan Valley, 1945–55 - Nadi Abusaada (American University of Beirut, Lebanon)
7. The Making of Ruralisme in Morocco: Colonial Genealogies and Postcolonial Developments - Michele Tenzon (Technical University of Delft, Netherlands) and Ben Clark (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)
III. Rural Modernity and Global Discourses: Villages in Transformation
8. Architectural Design for Procuring Thermal Comfort': Hassan Fathy, Nubia, and Desert Building - Nancy Reynolds (Washington University in St. Louis, USA)
9. Villages of the Aleppo Governorate: Early Development, Reconstruction, and Sustainability - Asser Al Hamoud (University of Kassel, Germany)
10. Entanglements of Architecture, Community, Tourism, and Heritage: Rural-Urban Encounters in Adatepe - Ilknur Erdogan (Ruprecht Karls University Heidelberg, Germany), Elif Leblebici (Bilkent University, Turkey) and Ezgi Nur Güngör (Polytechnic University of Turin, Italy)
Epilogue - The Village in the City: Reflections from Islamic Southeast Asia - Abidin Kusno (York University, Canada)
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| Published | Jan 07 2027 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 296 |
| ISBN | 9781350601949 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Visual Arts |
| Illustrations | 90 bw illus |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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