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International Journal of Islamic Architecture 9.2 is now available!

Special Issue: ‘Field as Archive/ Archive as Field’

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Aims & Scope

The International Journal of Islamic Architecture (IJIA) publishes peer-reviewed articles on the urban design, architecture and landscape architecture of the historic Islamic world, encompassing the Middle East and parts of Africa and Asia, but also the more recent geographies of Islam in its global dimensions. The main emphasis is on the detailed analysis of the historical, theoretical, and practical aspects of architecture.

Issue 9.2

Editorial

Field as Archive / Archive as Field

ERAY Çaylı

Design in Theory Articles

Pray to the Archive: Abstracting History in Zanzibar

TAUSHIF KARA

Records of Dispossession: Archival Thinking and UNESCO’s Nubian Campaign in Egypt and Sudan

WILLIAM CARRUTHERS

Déjà Vu at the Archive: Photography, National Narratives, and the Multiple Histories of the Smyrna Fire

KALLIOPI AMYGDALOU 

Conducting Research on West Bank Settlements: Architecture as Punctum and Archive

YAEL ALLWEIL and KEREN BEN HILELL

Archives as Fields of Heritage-Making in Istanbul’s Historic Peninsula

PINAR AYKAÇ

Design in Practice Articles

A Gift of Compassion: Welfare, Housing, and Domesticity in Contemporary Iran 

SAMANEH MOAFI

‘#OccupyGezi Architecture’ and Archival Tactics of Resistance

ELİF ÇİĞDEM ARTAN

Book Reviews

Persian Historic Urban Landscapes: Interpreting and Managing Maibud over 6000 Years, Eisa Esfanjary (2017)

The Iranian Expanse: Transforming Royal Identity Through Architecture, Landscape, and the Built  Environment, 550 bce–642 ce, Matthew P. Canepa (2018)

Ömür Harmanşah

Globalized Authoritarianism: Megaprojects, Slums, and Class Relations in Urban Morocco, Koenraad Bogaert (2018)

Katarzyna Pieprzak

Posthumous Images: Contemporary Art and Memory Politics in Post-Civil War Lebanon, Chad Elias (2018)

Alex Dika Seggerman

The Tentmakers of Cairo: Egypt’s Medieval and Modern Applique Craft, Seif El Rashidi and Sam Bowker (2018)

Jochen Sokoly

New Islamist Architecture and Urbanism: Negotiating Nation and Islam through Built Environment in Turkey, Bülent Batuman (2018)

İPEK TÜRELİ

Exhibition Reviews

Contemporary Muslim Fashions, M.H. De Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA, September 22, 2018–January 6, 2019

Riad Kherdeen

Transforming Traditions: The Arts of 19th-Century Iran, Aga Khan Museum, Toronto, September 22, 2018–February 10, 2019

Shabnam Rahimi-Golkhandan

Précis

Middle Eastern Crafts: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow, Victoria & Albert Museum, October 11–12, 2018

Anna McSweeney

Reconstructing Neighbourhoods of War, Orient-Institut Beirut, November 29–December 1, 2018

Ahmad Sukkar