Gazetteer 6. S-Z (original) (raw)
Dictionary of Islamic architecture
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First, I must thank my parents who have enabled me to pursue my interest in this subject. Gwendolyn Leick gave me the idea for the book in the first place and subsequently encouraged me in the long process of writing.
Classification of Residential Buildings in the Old City of Hebron
2017
The architectural style of buildings in Hebron's Old City-Hebron, a Palestinian city-is the same as that of most Islamic world cities and takes the form of houses with internal backyards. This is a result of the conditions particular to Islamic society in which residential areas have narrow streets, covered markets, mosques surrounded by a safe zone, and stone-paved courtyards. Visitors to Hebron discover pleasing architectural vistas and associated aesthetics. They may be amazed at how Muslim architects have built constructions that match the environmental and psychological conditions to enable integration between dwellings and humans in a secure form that does not violate the environment. The principles of architecture were based on the welfare of the residents for whom the houses were built. Areas of privacy were made for the collective activities of extended families, with greater privacy for smaller families. Efforts were made to ensure comfort in the house. Thus, houses were constructed while taking the local environment into consideration to ensure the comfort of the residents. The fact that several houses shared the same external walls helped to make people living in Hebron feel safe. The buildings formed a type of wall around the Old City in which each house shaded the other and also provided shade to passers-by. These factors were all taken into account by the Muslim architect, who followed the rules of Islam on the principles of construction.
Kh. al-Khurrumiya, a Fatimid Farmhouse in Northern Israel
Salvage Excavation Reports, 2007
The paper includes the excavation report of a Fatimid farmhouse at the site of Kh. al-Khurrumiya. Except for pottery analysis, stratigraphical and architectural descriptions, the paper yields a short discussion about dwellings and organisation of domestic space during the Early Islamic period.
The main problem of the theory in the arena of islamic architecture is affected by some of its Western thoughts, and stereotyping the islamic architecture according to Western thoughts; this leads to the breakdown of the foundations in the islamic architecture. It is a myth that islamic architecture is subjected to the influence from foreign architectures. This paper will highlight the dialectical concept of islamic architecture or muslim buildings and the areas of recognition in islamic architecture. It will also widen the knowledge in the characteristics of each point in time according to the stages of islamic architecture from the prophetic age moving through the architecture outside the city of Medina, the Caliphs, the Umayyad, Abbasid, and architectural models by spatial and time periods, taking Iraq as the example to explain how the Islam influents on architecture and vice versa.