Architecture of Anxiety, Body Politics and the Formation of Islamic Architecture

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Architecture of Anxiety, Body Politics and the Formation of Islamic Architecture is written by Heba Mostafa and published by BRILL. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9004690182 (ISBN 10) and 9789004690189 (ISBN 13).

Structured as five microhistories c. 632-705, this book offers a counternarrative for the formation of Islamic architecture and the Islamic state. It adopts a novel periodization informed by moments of historical violence and anxiety around caliphal identities in flux, animating histories of the minbar, throne, and maqsura as a principal nexus for navigating this anxiety. It expands outward to re-assess the mosque and palace with a focus on the Qubbat al-Khadraʾ and the Dar al-Imara in Kufa. It culminates in a reading of the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem as a site where eschatological anxieties and political survival converge.