TY  - BOOK
AU  - Khaghani,Saeid
TI  - Islamic architecture in Iran: poststructural theory and the architectural history of Iranian Mosques 
T2  - International library of Iranian studies
SN  - 9781848857292 (hbk.)
PY  - 2012///
CY  - London, New York, New York
PB  - I.B. Tauris, Distributed in the United States and Canada exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Islamic architecture
KW  - Iran
KW  - History
KW  - Mosques
KW  - To 1500
N1  - Introduction -- Islam as an Attribution -- Iranism -- The Mosque as Public Space -- Difference and the Iranian Architectural Discourse -- Difference and Particularity -- Conclusion
N2  - '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 reconsiders the mosques of eighth- to fifteenth-century Iran in terms of poststructural theory and developments in historiography in order to develop a brand new dialectical framework. Using the examples of mosques such as the Friday Mosques in Isfahan and Yazd as well as the Imam mosque in Isfahan, Khaghani presents a new way of thinking about and discussing Islamic architecture, making this valuable reading for all interested in the study of the art, architecture, and material culture of the Islamic world.'--Publisher
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