Continuity and Rupture in Islamic Architecture
This essay addresses the epistemic assumptions undergirding the constitution of Islamic architecture as a scholarly field of study. Critiquing the binary of rupture versus continuity and discovery as knowledge-controlling tools, the essay calls for reorienting the conceptual contours of the study of...
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| Summary: | This essay addresses the epistemic assumptions undergirding the constitution of Islamic architecture as a scholarly field of study. Critiquing the binary of rupture versus continuity and discovery as knowledge-controlling tools, the essay calls for reorienting the conceptual contours of the study of architecture in general towards inter-cultural, as well as intra-cultural, inquiry. |
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