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Architecture of Anxiety, Body Politics and the Formation of Islamic Architecture
Series: - Arts and Archaeology of the Islamic World, Volume: 20
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Structured as five microhistories c. 632-705, this book offers a counternarrative for the formation of Islamic architecture and the Islamic state. It adopts a novel periodization informed by moments of historical violence and anxiety around caliphal identities in flux, animating histories of the minbar, throne, and maqsura as a principal nexus for navigating this anxiety. It expands outward to re-assess the mosque and palace with a focus on the Qubbat al-Khadraʾ and the Dar al-Imara in Kufa. It culminates in a reading of the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem as a site where eschatological anxieties and political survival converge.
Heba Mostafa, Ph.D. (University of Cambridge, 2012), is Assistant Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture at the Department of Art History, St. George, University of Toronto. She has published on the history of mosques and sacred space in early Islam.
Readership includes Islamic art historians, historians of early Islam and late antiquity, urban historians, and historians of religion. It is relevant for graduate and advanced undergraduate courses in these fields.