4.619 Historiography of Islamic Architecture

Critical review of literature on Islamic architecture in the last two centuries and analysis of its historical and theoretical frameworks. Challenges the tacit assumptions and biases of standard studies of Islamic architecture and addresses historiographic and critical questions concerning how knowledge of a field is defined, produced, and reproduced.

Region: Africa, Middle East

MIT Department: Architecture

Contact: Rabbat, Nasser Omar

Email: nasser@mit.edu

URL: http://student.mit.edu/catalog/search.cgi?search=4.619

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