Islamic Architecture in Print: Reflections on Ten Years of IJIA (original) (raw)
2021, International Journal of Islamic Architecture
Since the publication of its first issue in 2012, the International Journal of Islamic Architecture (IJIA) has embraced a mission to redefine the conventional understanding of 'Islamic architecture' as a field of scholarship. IJIA definitively 'reappropriated' its title to expand and refine the term's meanings by providing an interdisciplinary platform for research on architectural history and contemporary practice that challenges the dominant narratives about Islamic architecture, and Islamic societies and cultures in general. This 'reappropriation' opens the term up to a new range of uses across the fields that we, as the senior editorial team, sought to achieve not from a defensive, isolationist position, but rather by repurposing existing frameworks of scholarship and expanding the field. IJIA exemplifies this effort by publishing articles that traverse geographic, temporal, and disciplinary divides and that reveal architectural cultures and practices premised on a broad definition of what constitutes 'Islamic' architecture. The journal includes articles that address historical inquiries of both global and regional issues, drawing on diverse archival materials, as well as essays that involve critical practices (buildings, sites, designers, new pedagogical approaches, etc.) related to historical and contemporary architecture throughout the Islamic world. The diversity of our published articles also demonstrates that we value the work of junior scholars and give voice to individuals who
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