Stéphane Pradines (ed.), Earthen Architecture in Muslim Cultures. Historical and Anthropological Perspectives

Abstract

Introduction: an architecture for the caliph and the poor / Stephane Pradines -- 1. Adobe as an Islamic Standard: Vernacular Cosmopolitics / Rolando Melo da Rosa -- 2. The Great Mosque of Timbuktu: Seven Centuries of Earthen Architecture / Bertrand Poissonnier -- 3. The Periphery Walls of Sijilmasa, a Medieval Islamic City in Morocco: Contribution to the Identification of Typological and Functional Variability of the Pise Technique / Francois-Xavier Fauvelle, Elarbi Erbati, Romain Mensan and Axel Daussy -- 4. Draa Valley: Tighremt and Igherm, Morocco / Marinella Arena and Paola Raffa -- 5. The Use of Earth in the Construction of the Q?ur in Southeastern Algeria / Mounia Chekhab-Abudaya -- 6. Identity and Architecture: The Fatimid Walls in Cairo / Stephane Pradines -- 7. Mud Brick Architecture in Ḥaḍramawt-Yemen under the Qu?aiti and Kathiri Sultanates / Christian Darles -- 8. Building on the Shoreline: Insights into the Use of Earth in the Architecture of the Late 18th and 19th Centuries in Qatar / Moritz Kinzel -- 9. Residential Compounds: Earthen Architecture in the Central Desert of Iran / Atri Hatef Naiemi -- 10. Traditions of Monumental Decoration in the Earthen Architecture of Early Islamic Central Asia / Paul D. Wordsworth -- 11. Ottoman Earth Architecture in Buda (1541-1686) / Adrienn Papp -- 12. Between Tradition and Modernity: Building with Earth in a Contemporary City / Elizabeth Golden.