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Continuity and Rupture in Islamic Architecture

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Rabbat, Nasser O.
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Abstract
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.
Date issued
2021-01
URI
https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/130656
Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Architecture
Journal
International Journal of Islamic Architecture
Publisher
Intellect
Citation
Rabbat, Nasser. "Continuity and Rupture in Islamic Architecture." International Journal of Islamic Architecture 10, 1 (January 2021): 47-55.
Version: Author's final manuscript
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2045-5895
2045-5909

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