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Cities and Islamisms: On the Politics and Production of the Built Environment book cover

1st Edition

Cities and Islamisms On the Politics and Production of the Built Environment

Edited By Bülent Batuman Copyright 2021
166 Pages 55 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

166 Pages 55 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

166 Pages 55 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This book sheds light on a particular facet of the link between politics and Islam through the analysis of the relationship between Islamism and the built environment. The relationship between Islam and politics has always been controversial, yet it has possibly never been as controversial as it is at the time of writing. This new edited volume sets out to explore the interactions between... Read more

List of Figures

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction Islamisms and the Built Environment: Notes for a Research Agenda

Bülent Batuman

Part 1 - Nations in Islam: Architecture across Borders

1. InterAsian Islamisms: Monumental Mosques and Modernity in Kazakhstan and Qatar

Natalie Koch

2. "Turkish House" Home and Abroad: Islamist Self-Orientalism and Architecture of Diplomacy

Bülent Batuman

Part 2- Official versus Vernacular: Dispute over Local Spaces of Worship

3. Performing Algerian Islam in Bouteflika’s policies: Reflections from the nationalization of Sufi zawiya

Valentina Fedele

4. Contesting Vision of Modernity? The case of Tanjung Bunut Mosque

Khairul Hazmi Zaini

Part 3 - Islamic Architectures of Nation Building

5. Representing "people" through Islamic Architecture in Pakistan

Farhan Karim

6. Is there moderation in ostentation? Architectural sectarianism and Lebanese Islamisms (2008-2018)

Ward Vloeberghs

Part 4 - Public Spaces / Islamist Subjectivities

7. Monument to an Alternate Islamist Movement: Hosseinyeh Ershad and its Legacy

Pamela Karimi & Saba Madani

8. Islamist Urbanism and Spatial Performances in Indonesia

Abidin Kusno

Index

Biography

Bülent Batuman is Associate Professor of Architecture at Bilkent University, with joint appointment in the Department of Urban Design and Landscape Architecture and the Department of Architecture. He studied at the Middle East Technical University (Ankara, Turkey) and received his PhD in History and Theory of Art and Architecture from the State University of New York at Binghamton, USA. His research areas include social production and politics of the built environment, history and theory of modern architecture and urbanism, and urban politics. His current research focuses on the architectural politics of Islamism, and his latest book, New Islamist Architecture and Urbanism: Negotiating Nation and Islam through Built Environment in Turkey, was published by Routledge in 2018.

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