Architecture Islam And Identity In West Africa

Author : Michelle Apotsos
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-20
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317275558

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Architecture, Islam, and Identity in West Africa by Michelle Apotsos Pdf

Architecture, Islam, and Identity in West Africa shows you the relationship between architecture and Islamic identity in West Africa. The book looks broadly across Muslim West Africa and takes an in-depth study of the village of Larabanga, a small Muslim community in Northern Ghana, to help you see how the built environment encodes cultural history through form, material, and space, creating an architectural narrative that outlines the contours of this distinctive Muslim identity. Apotsos explores how modern technology, heritage, and tourism have increasingly affected the contemporary architectural character of this community, revealing the village’s current state of social, cultural, and spiritual flux. More than 60 black and white images illustrate how architectural components within this setting express the distinctive narratives, value systems, and realities that make up the unique composition of this Afro-Islamic community.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Cultural geography
ISBN : 2015047638

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Architecture, Islam, and Identity in West Africa by Anonim Pdf

Architecture, Islam, and Identity in West Africa shows you the relationship between architecture and Islamic identity in West Africa. The book looks broadly across Muslim West Africa and takes an in-depth study of the village of Larabanga, a small Muslim community in Northern Ghana, to help you see how the built environment encodes cultural history through form, material, and space, creating an architectural narrative that outlines the contours of this distinctive Muslim identity. Apotsos explores how modern technology, heritage, and tourism have increasingly affected the contemporary architectural character of this community, revealing the village's current state of social, cultural, and spiritual flux. More than 60 black and white images illustrate how architectural components within this setting express the distinctive narratives, value systems, and realities that make up the unique composition of this Afro-Islamic community.

Author : Michelle Moore Apotsos
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-20
Category : History
ISBN : 1108461417

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The Masjid in Contemporary Islamic Africa by Michelle Moore Apotsos Pdf

This volume examines the emergence of alternative spaces and architectural landscapes of Islamic practice in contemporary Africa through the lens of the masjid, whose definition as a "place of prostration" has enabled Muslim populations across the continent to navigate the murky waters of the contemporary condition through a purposeful renovation of spiritual space. Drawing from multiple disciplines and utilizing a series of diverse case studies, Michelle Apotsos reflects on the shifting realities of Islamic communities as they engage in processes of socio-political and cultural transformation. Illustrated through the growth of forward-thinking and in flexible environments that highlight how Muslim communities have developed unique solutions to the problem of performing identity within diverse contexts across the continent, she re-imagines the major themes surrounding definitions of Islamic architectural space in the contemporary period in Africa and the nature of the "modernity" as it has unfolded across diverse contexts on the continent.

Author : John D. Hoag
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780486168739

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Western Islamic Architecture by John D. Hoag Pdf

Profusely illustrated critical appraisal vividly describes the glories of world architecture, from Spain and Egypt to other areas of the Middle East.

Author : Cleo Cantone
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004217508

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Making and Remaking Mosques in Senegal by Cleo Cantone Pdf

This book constitutes a seminal contribution to the fields of Islamic architectural history and gender studies. It is the first major empirical study of the history and current state of mosque building in Senegal and the first study of mosque space from a gender perspective.

Author : James Morris,Suzanne Preston Blier
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781568984131

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Butabu by James Morris,Suzanne Preston Blier Pdf

This volume examines the complex technique of wet earth construction, as practised in parts of West Africa. It includes a variety of structures, ranging from small huts to mosques, including the mosque at Dougoumba which dates from the 12th century.

Author : Fallou Ngom,Mustapha H. Kurfi,Toyin Falola
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 774 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783030457594

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The Palgrave Handbook of Islam in Africa by Fallou Ngom,Mustapha H. Kurfi,Toyin Falola Pdf

This handbook generates new insights that enrich our understanding of the history of Islam in Africa and the diverse experiences and expressions of the faith on the continent. The chapters in the volume cover key themes that reflect the preoccupations and realities of many African Muslims. They provide readers access to a comprehensive treatment of the past and current traditions of Muslims in Africa, offering insights on different forms of Islamization that have taken place in several regions, local responses to Islamization, Islam in colonial and post-colonial Africa, and the varied forms of Jihād movements that have occurred on the continent. The handbook provides updated knowledge on various social, cultural, linguistic, political, artistic, educational, and intellectual aspects of the encounter between Islam and African societies reflected in the lived experiences of African Muslims and the corpus of African Islamic texts.

Author : Joseph Godlewski
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2024-03-06
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781003854951

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The Architecture of the Bight of Biafra by Joseph Godlewski Pdf

The Architecture of the Bight of Biafra challenges linear assumptions about agency, progress, and domination in colonial and postcolonial cities, adding an important sub‐Saharan case study to existing scholarship on globalization and modernity. Intersected by small creeks, rivulets, and dotted with mangrove swamps, the Bight of Biafra has a long history of decentralized political arrangements and intricate trading networks predating the emergence of the Atlantic world. While indigenous merchants in the region were active participants in the transatlantic slave trading system, they creatively resisted European settlement and maintained indigenous sovereignty until the middle of the nineteenth century. Since few built artifacts still exist, this study draws from a close reading of written sources—travelers’ accounts, slave traders’ diaries, missionary memoirs, colonial records, and oral histories—as well as contemporary fieldwork to trace transformations in the region’s built environment from the sixteenth century to today. With each chapter focusing on a particular spatial paradigm in this dynamic process, this book uncovers the manifold and inventive ways in which actors strategically adapted the built environment to adjust to changing cultural and economic circumstances. In parallel, it highlights the ways that these spaces were rhetorically constructed and exploited by foreign observers and local agents. Enmeshed in the history of slavery, colonialism, and the modern construction of race, the spatial dynamics of the Biafran region have not been geographically delimited. The central thesis of this volume is that these spaces of entanglement have been productive sites of Black identity formation involving competing and overlapping interests, occupying multiple positions and temporalities, and ensnaring real, imagined, and sometimes contradictory aims. This book will be of interest to researchers and students of architecture, architectural history, urban geography, African studies, and Atlantic studies.

Author : Colleen Boyett,H. Micheal Tarver,Mildred Diane Gleason
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1309 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781440846939

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Daily Life of Women [3 volumes] by Colleen Boyett,H. Micheal Tarver,Mildred Diane Gleason Pdf

Indispensable for the student or researcher studying women's history, this book draws upon a wide array of cultural settings and time periods in which women displayed agency by carrying out their daily economic, familial, artistic, and religious obligations. Since record keeping began, history has been written by a relatively few elite men. Insights into women's history are left to be gleaned by scholars who undertake careful readings of ancient literature, examine archaeological artifacts, and study popular culture, such as folktales, musical traditions, and art. For some historical periods and geographic regions, this is the only way to develop some sense of what daily life might have been like for women in a particular time and place. This reference explores the daily life of women across civilizations. The work is organized in sections on different civilizations from around the world, arranged chronologically. Within each society, the encyclopedia highlights the roles of women within five broad thematic categories: the arts, economics and work, family and community life, recreation and social customs, and religious life. Included are numerous sidebars containing additional information, document excerpts, images, and suggestions for further reading.

Author : Tor Engeström
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Architecture
ISBN : IND:30000154078483

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Origin of Pre-Islamic Architecture in West-Africa by Tor Engeström Pdf

Author : Fadhili Safieli Mshana
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781666901528

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African Artists Under Mission Patronage by Fadhili Safieli Mshana Pdf

African Artists under Mission Patronage explores relationships between African artists and Western Christian missions in twentieth-century Africa, and how that patronage has shaped and defined twentieth-century African art.

Author : Labelle Prussin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Art
ISBN : 0520030044

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Hatumere by Labelle Prussin Pdf

Author : Gharipour Mohammad Gharipour
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-30
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781474468435

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Synagogues in the Islamic World by Gharipour Mohammad Gharipour Pdf

This beautifully illustrated volume looks at the spaces created by and for Jews in areas under the political or religious control of Muslims. Covering regions as diverse as Central Asia, the Middle East, North Africa and Spain, it asks how the architecture of synagogues responded to contextual issues and traditions, and how these contexts influenced the design and evolution of synagogues. As well as revealing how synagogues reflect the culture of the Jewish minority at macro and micro scales, from the city to the interior, the book also considers patterns of the development of synagogues in urban contexts and in connection with urban elements and monuments.

Author : Kathleen Bickford Berzock
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780691182681

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Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time by Kathleen Bickford Berzock Pdf

Issued in conjunction with the exhibition Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time, held January 26, 2019-July 21, 2019, Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.

Author : Ali A. Mazrui,Patrick M. Dikirr,Jr. Robert Ostergard,Michael Toler,Paul Macharia
Publisher : Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9788120791015

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Africas Islamic Experiences- History, Culture, and Politics by Ali A. Mazrui,Patrick M. Dikirr,Jr. Robert Ostergard,Michael Toler,Paul Macharia Pdf

"Africas Islamic Experiences- History, Culture, and Politics Edited by Ali A. Mazrui, Patrick M. Dikirr, Robert Ostergard Jr., Michael Toler & Paul Macharia This volume is rich in historic surprises about the fortunes of Islam in African experience, Islam first arrived in African while the Prophet Muhammad, the Founder of the religion, was still alive, Ethiopia provided asylum to early Arab Muslims on the run from persecution by fellow Arabs in pre-Islamic Mecca, Today Nigeria has more Muslims than any Arab country, including Egypt. This volume explores not just Islam's impact upon Africa but also Africa's impact on Muslim history. The book explores the geographical expansion of the religion, the revival of ancient Muslim rituals, and the politicization and radicalization of Islam in both colonial and pre-colonial Africa. Is Islam compatible with democracy? Can African Islam peacefully coexist with Christianity? How has Islam in Africa influenced architecture, Literature, race relations, gender relation, and cultural interpenetrations between Arabs and Black Africans? In this era of globalization is Islam a positive vanguard force or a trigger for parochialism and backward-looking nostalgia? In this era of terrorism and counter-terrorism can Islam be mobilized as a force for stability or has the religion been irretrievably hijacked by its own worst radicals? This volume does not try to answer all the questions, but it helps to lay the basic groundwork for understanding Islam much better in this new age.