Islamic architecture in Iran poststructural theory and the architectural history of Iranian Mosques

"The architecture of the Islamic world is predominantly considered in terms of a dual division between "tradition" and "modernity" - a division which, Saeid Khaghani here argues, has shaped and limited the narrative applied to this architecture. Khaghani introduces and recon...

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Main Author: Khaghani, Saeid (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York I.B. Tauris 2012
Series:International library of Iranian studies 34
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Islam as an Attribution
  • Iranism
  • The Mosque as Public Space
  • Difference and the Iranian Architectural Discourse
  • Difference and Particularity
  • Conclusion