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Architectures of Islam & the Middle East: General resources

Recommended resources—providing location info for print resources and links for digital resources—on Islamic traditions in architecture, but also including resources on pre-Islamic and non-Islamic cultures of the Middle East.

Recommended books

Recommended image resources

ArchNet collections

Cassellman Archive of Islamic & Mudejar Architecture in Spain

Other resources

Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture, based at Harvard

Architectural and urban forms of the Islamic world (collection of documents presenting a "comparative picture of urban and architectural form across the vast geographical region commonly referred to as the Islamic world." Produced by the ArCHIAM Centre, via ArchNet)

ArchNet (“focused on architecture, urbanism, environmental and landscape design, visual culture, and conservation issues related to the Muslim world.”)

Historians of Islamic Art Association (International)

Mimar: architecture in development (journal focusing on architecture in the Islamic world published 1981-7. E-journal versions available via ArchNet)

Muqarnas: an annual on the visual culture of the Islamic world (PDFs of articles from 1983, with a 5-year delay, are available from Jstor)

Recommended for all architectural research

Specialized resources on related topics

Aga Khan Award for Architecture (Awarded every 3 years, since 1977)

Aga Khan Award for Architecture, Architecture and polyphony: building in the Islamic world today, Thames & Hudson, NA2335.A63 2005  

Arab Mega-Projects,” Built Environment, #2, 2010 (Theme issue, PDFs via Jstor)

Bani-Masoud, Amir, Contemporary architecture in Iran : from 1925 to the present, [independently published], 2021

Mostafavi, Mohsen, Implicate & explicate: Aga Khan Award for Architecture, Lars Müller, NA380 .A35 2011

Whiting, Sarah M, (editor), Inclusive architecture : Aga Khan Award for Architecture, ArchiTangle, NA2335 .I525 2022

Blair, Sheila, et al., The Art and architecture of Islam 1250-1800, Yale University Press, N6260 .B56 1994

Blair, Sheila, et al., “Islamic art; architecture,” Oxford Art Online

Draper, Peter, “Islam and the West: the early use of the pointed arch revisited,” Architectural History, Vol.48, 2005, p.1-20 (PDF via JStor)

Ettinghausen, Richard, et al., Islamic art and architecture, 650-1250, Yale University Press, N6260.E79 2001

Freely, John, Sinan: architect of Suleyman the Magnificent and the Ottoman golden age, Thames and Hudson, NA1389.S4A4 1992

Goodwin, Godfrey, A history of Ottoman architecture, Thames & Hudson, NA1364.G58 1987 

Graves, Margaret S., Arts of allusion : object, ornament, and architecture in medieval Islam, Oxford University Press, NK1270 .G73 2018

Hattstein, Markus, Islam: art and architecture, Könemann, N6250.H38 2004

Hillenbrand, Robert, Islamic architecture: form, function and meaning, Columbia University Press, NA380.H52 1994

Howard, Deborah, Venice & the East: the impact of the Islamic world on Venetian architecture, 1100-1500, Yale University Press, NA1121.V4 H69 2000

Neci̇poğlu, Gülru, The age of Sinan: architectural culture in the Ottoman Empire, Princeton University Press, NA1373.S5N43 2005

Stanek, Lukasz, Architecture in global socialism : Eastern Europe, West Africa, and the Middle East in the Cold War, Princeton University Press, NA680 .S79 2020

Stierlin, Henri, Islam, volume 1: Early architecture from Baghdad to Cordoba, Taschen, NA380.S8513 1996

Akkach, Samer, Cosmology and architecture in premodern Islam, State University of New York Press, BP182.5.A34 2005

Alissa, Reem, "The tradition of ‘Islamic architecture’: from Western construction to Eastern champion," Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review, #1, 2008, p. 54 (PDF via Jstor)

Broug, Eric, Islamic geometric design, Thames & Hudson, NK1270.B75 2013

Camacho, Ricardo, et al, Pan-Arab Modernism 1968-2018 : the history of architectural practice in the Middle East, Actar, NA1465.3 .C36 2021

Campo, Juan Eduardo, The Other sides of paradise: religious meanings of domestic space in Islam, University of South Carolina Press, BP63.E3C36 1991

Dönmez-Colin, Gönül, Women, Islam and cinema, Reaktion, PN1995.9.W6D6 2004

Gonzalez, Valérie, Beauty and Islam: aesthetics in Islamic art and architecture, I.B. Taurus, N6260.G667 2001

Grabar, Oleg, Islamic art and beyond, Ashgate Variorum, N6260.G69153 2006

Grabar, Oleg, The formation of Islamic art, Yale University Press, N6260.G69 1987

Guaita, Ovidio, The art of living: residential architecture in the Islamic world, Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia, NA7596.I74 G83 2001

Hillenbrand, Robert, “Studying Islamic architecture: challenges and perspectives,” Architectural History, 2003, p. 1-18 (PDF via Jstor)

Irwin, Robert, Islamic art in context: art, architecture, and the literary world, Prentice-Hall, N6260.I75 1997

Kries, Mateo, et al., Living under the crescent moon: domestic culture in the Arab world, Vitra Design Museum, GN640.L585 2003

Meinecke, Michael, Patterns of stylistic changes in Islamic architecture: local traditions versus migrating artists, New York University Press, NA380.M45 1995

Neci̇poğlu, Gülru, “Creation of a national genius: Si̇nan and the historiography of "classical" Ottoman architecture,” Muqarnas, #24, 2007 (PDF via Jstor)

Necipoğlu, Gülru, “Plans and models in 15th- and 16th-century Ottoman architectural practice,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, September 1986, p. 224-243 (PDF via Jstor)

Necipoğlu, Gülru, The Topkapi scroll: geometry and ornament in Islamic architecture, Getty Center, NA2706.A783N43 1995

Ragette, Friedrich, Traditional domestic architecture of the Arab region, Menges, NA7418 .R33 2003

Bennison, Amira K., Cities in the pre-modern Islamic world, Routledge, HT147.5.B38 2007

Chuvin, Gérard, Samarkand, Bukhara, Khiva, Flammarion, NA1498.S3C48 2001

Elsheshtawy, Yasser, Planning Middle Eastern cities, Routledge, HT169.M628P58 2004

Mortada, Hisham, Traditional Islamic principles of built environment, Routledge, NA2543.I74M67 2003

Organization of Islamic Capitals and Cities (an international NGO based in Saudi Arabia)

Ross, Eric, Sufi City: urban design and archetypes in Touba, Boydell and Brewer, DT549.9.T68R67 2006

Sato, Tsugitaka, Islamic urbanism in human history, Routledge, HT147.5.I86 1997

Al Sayyad, Nezar, Hybrid urbanism: on the identity discourse and the built environment,  Praeger, HT119.H93 2001

UAE and the Gulf: architecture and urbanism now,” Architectural Digest, January/February 2015 (ebook via ProQuest Ebrary)

Wheatley, Paul, The places where men pray together: cities in Islamic lands, University of Chicago Press, HT384.I67W48 2001

Wolper, Ethel Sara, Cities and saints: Sufism and the transformation of urban space in medieval Anatolia, Pennsylvania State University Press, NA1363.W65 2003

Dallal, Ahmad, Islam, science, and the challenge of history, Yale University Press, 2010 (ebook via ProQuest Ebrary)

Gil-Crespo, Ignacio-Javier, “Islamic fortifications in Spain built with rammed earth,” Construction History, Vol.31, #2, 2016, p.1-22 (PDF via JStor)

Hassan, Aḥmad Yūsuf, Islamic technology; an illustrated history, Cambridge University Press, T27.3.I57H37 1992

Michaud, Roland, Design and color in Islamic architecture: eight centuries of the tile-maker's art, Vendome, NK4670.7.A78M5313 1996

Saliba, George, Islamic science and the making of the European Renaissance, MIT Press, 2011 (ebook via ProQuest ebrary)

Cook, Michael, The Koran: a very short introduction, Oxford University Press, BP130.4.C66 2000 

Gibb, H.A.R., Concise encyclopedia of Islam, Brill, BP40.C66 2001

McCloud, Aminah Beverly, et al. (Editors) An Introduction to Islam in the 21st century, Wiley-Blackwell, 2013 (ebook via ProQuest Ebrary)

Ruthven, Malise, Islam: a very short introduction, Oxford University Press, BP161.2.R86 1997

Stanek, Lukasz, Architecture in global socialism : Eastern Europe, West Africa, and the Middle East in the Cold War, Princeton University Press, NA680 .S79 2020

Studia Islamica (PDFs of articles from 1953, with a 3-year delay, are available via Jstor)

Clark, Emma, Art of the Islamic garden, Crowood, SB457.8.C58 2004

Lehrman, Jonas Benzion, Earthly paradise: garden and courtyard in Islam, Thames and Hudson, SB457.8 .L43 [1980]

Moynihan, Elizabeth B., Paradise as a garden: in Persia and Mughal India, Braziller, SB458.5.M68 [1979]

Porter, Yves, Palaces and gardens of Persia, Thames & Hudson, NA1480.P6413 2003

Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics (PDFs from 1985, with a 1-year delay, available via Jstor)

Allen, Roger, An Introduction to Arabic literature, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2000 (ebook via ProQuest ebrary)

Bashier, Salman H., Story of Islamic philosophy, State University of New York Press, 2011 (ebook via ProQuest ebrary)

International Prize for Arabic Fiction (annual, since 2007)

Al Jadid: a review & record of Arab culture and arts (English language essays and reviews, published since 1996)

Leaman, Oliver, An Introduction to classical Islamic philosophy, Cambridge University Press, 2001 (ebook via ProQuest ebrary)

Morrissey, Fitzroy, A short history of Islamic thought, Oxford University Press, BP161.3 .M676 2021

Slyomovics. Susan, The walled Arab city in literature, architecture and history, Cass, DS36.8.W27 2001

Starkey, Paul, Modern Arabic literature, Edinburgh University Press, 2006 (ebook via ProQuest Ebrary)

Sumi, Akiko M, "Poetry and architecture: a double imitation in the Sīniyyah of Aḥmad Shawqī," Journal of Arabic Literature, #1, 2008, p. 72-122 (PDF via Jstor)

Bloom, Jonathan M., “Five Fatimid minarets in Upper Egypt,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, May 1984, p. 162-167 (PDF via Jstor)

Bloom, Jonathan M., The Minaret, Edinburgh University Press, NA4670.B55 2018

Database of Masjids, Mosques and Islamic Centers in the U.S. (Hartford Institute for Religion Research)

Ecker, Heather, “The Great Mosque of Córdoba in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries,” Muqarnas, #20, 2003, p. 113-141 (PDF via Jstor)

Frishman, Martin & Hasan-Uddin Kahn, Mosque: history, architectural development and regional diversity, Thames and Hudson, NA4670.M67 1994

Kahera, Akel Ismail, Deconstructing the American mosque, University of Texas Press, 2002 (ebook via ProQuest ebrary)

Kuban, Dogan, Muslim religious architecture, Brill, NA4610.K83 volumes 1 & 2

Mosque,” Oxford Art Online

Roose, Eric Reinier, Architectural representation of Islam: Muslim-commissioned mosque design in The Netherlands, Amsterdam University Press, 2009 (ebook via ProQuest Ebrary)

Ṣāliḥ M. A. A. Ibn, & et al., Proceedings of the Symposium on Mosque Architecture, College of Architecture and Planning, King Saud University, NA4670.S24 1999 volumes 1-10

Serageldin, Ismail, Architecture of the Contemporary Mosque, Academy Editions, NA4670.A73 1996

Bendiner, Kenneth, “Orientalism,” Oxford Art Online 

Benjamin, Roger, Orientalist aesthetics: art, colonialism, and French North Africa, 1880-1930, University of California Press, ND1460.E95B46 2003

Blair, Sheila S. & Jonathan M. Bloom, “The Mirage of Islamic art: reflections on the study of an unwieldy field,” The Art Bulletin, March 2003, p. 152-184 (PDF via Jstor)

Clines, Robert. “Edward W. Said, Renaissance Orientalism, and Imaginative Geographies of a Classical Mediterranean,” Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome, Vol.65, 2020, p.481–533 (PDF via Jstor)

Mongia, Padmini, Contemporary Postcolonial theory: a reader, St. Martin’s Press, PN771.C595 1996

Nalbantoglu, Gülsüm Baydar & Chong Thai Wong, Postcolonial Space(s), Princeton Architectural Press, NA2543.S6P67 1997

Quayson, Ato, “Postcolonialism,” Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Said, Edward W., Orientalism, Vintage, DS12.S24 1979

Yeğenoğlu, Meyda, Colonial fantasies: towards a feminist reading of Orientalism, Cambridge University Press, PN98.W64Y45 1998

Young, Robert, Postcolonialism: a very short introduction, Oxford University Press, JV51.Y68 2001

Ali, Wijdan, Modern Islamic Art: development and continuity, University Press of Florida, N7265.A43 1997

Bidoun (Coverage of contemporary Middle East art and culture)

Bloom, Jonathan M. & Sheila Blair, Art & Ideas: Islamic arts, Phaidon, N6260.B57 1997

Hali (Journal of Islamic carpets and textiles)

Islamic art collections at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Khaled, Azzam, Arts & crafts of the Islamic lands: principles, materials, practice, Thames & Hudson, N6260.A77 2013

Smithsonian Freer/Sacker Galleries, Arts of the Islamic world

Trevathan, Idries, et al, The art of orientation: an exploration of the mosque through objects, Hirmer, BP187.62 .A78 2020

Middle eastern nations & nations with Islamic traditions

Dutta, Arindam, “Infinite justice: an architectural coda,” Grey Room, #7, Spring 2002, p. 40-55 (PDF via Jstor)

Flood, Finbarr Barry, “Between cult and culture: Bamiyan, Islamic iconoclasm, and the museum,” The Art Bulletin, December 2002, p. 641-659 (PDF via Jstor)

Hoag, John D., “The tomb of Ulugh Beg and Abdu Razzaq at Ghazni: a model for the Taj Mahal,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, December 1968, p. 234-248 (PDF via Jstor)

Klinkott, Manfred, “Wall structures of early-Islamic mud-brick architecture in South-West Afghanistan,” Detail, January/February 2002, p. 22-27

MacDowall, D. W., et al., “Afghanistan,” Oxford Art Online

Stein, Gil J., “The war-ravaged cultural heritage of Afghanistan,” Near Eastern Archaeology, September 2015, p.187-195 (PDF via The Pearson Institute)   

Society of Afghan Engineers (U.S.-based)

Suhrke, Astri, "Reconstruction as modernisation: The 'Post-Conflict' project in Afghanistan," Third World Quarterly, #7, 2007, p. 1291-308

Algeria,” Oxford Art Online

Bahloul, Joëlle, The architecture of memory: a Jewish-Muslim household in colonial Algeria, Cambridge University Press, DS135.A3B3513 1996

Bellal, Tahar & Frank E. Brown, “Spatial structure of the M'zabite home,” Journal of Architectural & Planning Research, Spring 2007, p. 1-22

Boudebaba, Rabah, Urban growth and housing policy in Algeria: a case study of a migrant community in the city of Constantine, Avebury, HT384.A42C663 1992

Crane, Sheila, "Making mute arches sing: Abderrahman Bouchama and post-revolutionary architecture in Algeria," Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review, #1, 2008. p. 53 (PDF via Jstor)

Djerbi, Ali & Abdelwahab Safi, “Teaching the history of architecture in Algeria, Tunisia, and Morocco,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, March 2003, p. 102-109 (PDF via Jstor)

Ecole Polytechnique d’Architecture et Urbanism, Algiers

Loeckx, André, “Kabylia, the house, and the road,” Journal of Architectural Education, November 1998, p. 87-99 (PDF via Jstor)

Roche, Manuelle, Le M’zab; architecture ibadite en Algerie, Arthaud, DT-298.M9 R58

 

ALGIERS

“Algier [History of growth and planning in Algiers]” Bauwelt, September 26, 2003 (Theme issue)

“Algiers: Casbah,” Olivier, Paul, et al., Encyclopedia of Vernacular Architecture of the World, Cambridge University Press, Reference: NA208.E53 1997. v.2, p. 1599

Çelik,Zeynep, ”Le Corbusier, Orientalism, Colonialism,” Assemblage, #17, 1992, p. 58-77 (PDF via Jstor)

Çelik, Zeynep, Urban Forms and Colonial Confrontations, University of California Press, NA2543.S6C44 1997

Cohen, Jean-Louis, “Architectural history and the colonial question: Casablanca, Algiers and Beyond,” Architectural History, 2006, p. 349-372 (PDF via Jstor)

McLeod, Mary, “Le Corbusier and Algiers,” Oppositions, #19, 1980, p. 54-85

Arab, Pooyan Tamimi, “The biggest mosque in Europe!,” in Religious architecture: anthropological perspectives, edited by Oskar Verkaaik, Amsterdam University Press, 2013, p.47-62 (PDF via JStor)

Çelik, Zeynep, Displaying the Orient: architecture of Islam at nineteenth-century world's fairs, University of California Press, NA957.C44 1992

Davidson, Naomi, “’Accessible to all Muslims and to the Parisian public’: the Mosquée de Paris and French Islam in the capital,” Thresholds, #32, 2006, p. 12-17

Kahera, Akel Ismail, Deconstructing the American mosque, University of Texas Press, 2002 (ebook via ProQuest ebrary)

Metcalf, Barbara Daly, Making Muslim space in North America and Europe, University of California Press, BP67.A1M34 1996

Moffitt, John F., The Islamic design module in Latin America, McFarland & Co., NA702.2.M64 2004

Placzek, Adolf K., et al., "Proceedings of the Seminar on Architecture and Historic Preservation in Central and Eastern Europe,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, #2, 1979, p. 123-175 (Collection of brief articles and valuable bibliographies on dozens of nations, PDF via Jstor)

Saleem S., “A history of mosques in Britain,”  Architects' Journal, April 19, 2012, p. 36-43

“Armenian,” Olivier, Paul, et al., Encyclopedia of Vernacular Architecture of the World, Cambridge University Press, Reference: NA208.E53 1997, v.2, p. 1465

Der Manuelian, Lucy, et al., “Armenia, Republic of,” Oxford Art Online

Kleinbauer, W. Eugene, “Zvart'nots and the origins of Christian architecture in Armenia,” The Art Bulletin, Septemper 1972, p. 245-262 (PDF via Jstor)

Maranci, Christina, "The Archaeology and reconstruction of Zuartʻnocʻ," Dumbarton Oaks Papers, #68, 2014, p. 69-115 (PDF via Jstor)

Maranci, Christina, “The architect Trdat: building practice and cross-cultural exchange in Byzantium and Armenia,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, September 2003, p. 294-305 (PDF via Jstor)

Maranci, Christina, “Building churches in Armenia: art at the borders of empire and the edge of the canonArt Bulletin, December 2006, p. 656-675 (PDF via Jstor)

Mathews, Thomas F., Art and Architecture in Byzantium and Armenia, Variorum, N7852.5.M38 1995

Parsegian, Vazken Lawrence, “On preserving architectural history: the Armenian experience,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, October 1985, p. 284-286 (PDF via Jstor)

Utudjian, Edouard, Armenian Architecture; 4th – 17th centuries, Morancé, NA5695.A7U8 [1968]

Cornell, Svante E., Azerbaijan since independence, Routledge, 2011 (ebook via ProQuest ebrary)

Memar magazine (published by the Union of Architects of Azerbaijan Republic)

Salmanov, E.R., et al. "Azerbaijan," Oxford Art Online

“Bahrain,” Olivier, Paul, et al., Encyclopedia of Vernacular Architecture of the World, Cambridge University Press, Reference: NA208.E53 1997, v.2, p. 1449

Bahrain, State of,” Oxford Art Online

“Bahrain,” Volume, #6, 2006 (Theme issue)

Al-Sayeh, N., “A field of possibilities: the post-oil future of Bahrain,” Architectural Design, #1, 2015, p. 136-141 

Ashraf, Kazi Khaleed, “Muzharul Islam, Kahn and architecture in Bangladesh,” Mimar, #31, 1989 (PDF via ArchNet)

“Bangladesh,” Olivier, Paul, et al., Encyclopedia of Vernacular Architecture of the World, Cambridge University Press, Reference: NA208.E53 1997, v.2, p. 920

Bangladesh U. of Engineering & Technology, Department of Architecture

Banu, Lisa S., "Defining the design deficit in Bangladesh," Journal of Design History 22, # 4, 2009, p. 309-323 (PDF via Jstor)

Glassie, Henry, Art and life in Bangladesh, Indiana University Press, NK1050.6.B3G53 1997

Hasan, Perween, Sultans and mosques: the early Muslim architecture of Bangladesh, I.B. Tauris, NA1510.8.B36H367 2007

Hasan, Perween & Hameeda Hossain, “Bangladesh, People's Republic of,” Oxford Art Online

Institute of Architects Bangladesh (Facebook)

Khan, Tareef & Howard Davis, "Building and rebuilding houses: modern law and traditional practice in Bangladesh," Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review, # 1, 2008, p. 43-44 (PDF via Jstor)

Nabi, Ahmad Nabi, Islamic architecture in South Asia: Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Oxford University Press, NA1510.7.N33 2003

World Heritage Sites: Bangladesh

Gaubatz, Piper, "Looking West towards Mecca: Muslim enclaves in Chinese frontier cities," Built Environment, #3, 2002, p. 231-248 (PDF via Jstor)

Jing-qui, Zhang, “Mosques of Northern China,” Mimar, #3, 1982 p. 57-73 (PDF via ArchNet)

Steinhardt, Nancy, “China's earliest mosques,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, September 2008, p. 330-361 (PDF via Jstor)

Sun, Dazhang, Ancient Chinese Architecture; Islamic buildings, Springer, Oversize: NA1543.5.J813 2003

“Cyprus,” Olivier, Paul, et al., Encyclopedia of Vernacular Architecture of the World, Cambridge University Press, Reference: NA208.E53 1997, v.2, p. 1551

Cyprus Architects Association

Hadjichristos, Christos, “Cyprus: Nicosia and its de-visions,” Architectural Design, May/June 2006, p. 12-19

Loizides, Neophytos, Designing peace: Cyprus and institutional innovations in divided societies, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016 (ebook via ProQuest ebrary)

Merrillees, R.S., et al., "Cyprus," Oxford Art Online

Pulhan, Hifsiye, “The transitional space in the traditional urban settlement of Cyprus,” Journal of Architectural & Planning Research, Summer 2005, p. 168-170

Stewart, Charles Anthony, "The First vaulted churches in Cyprus," Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, #2, 2010, p. 162-189 (PDF via Jstor)

Tourvas, Teresa, “Collaborative landscapes of growth and change,” Thresholds, #20, 2000, p. 82-85

University of Cyprus, Department of Architecture

Egypt, Arab Republic of ,” Oxford Art Online

“Egyptian: rural,” Olivier, Paul, et al., Encyclopedia of Vernacular Architecture of the World, Cambridge University Press, Reference: NA208.E53 1997, v.2, p. 1605

Evans, Helen C., Saint Catherine's Monastery, Sinai, Egypt, Yale University Press, BX387.E93 2004

Fathy, Hassan, Architecture for the Poor, University of Chicago Press, HN790.Q7F33 [1976]

Fathy, Hassan, Natural energy and vernacular architecture, University of Chicago Press, NA711.A74F3 1986

El-Hosseiny, Mohamed, “In search of identity: a view on contemporary architecture in Egypt,” Architectural Design, November/December 2004, p. 78-83

Johnson, Shirley & Sharīf Sunbul, Egyptian palaces and villas: pashas, khedives, and kings, Abrams, NA1581.J64 2006

McKenzie, Judith, The Architecture of Alexandria and Egypt, c. 300 b.c. to a.d. 700, Yale University Press, NA216.A5M45 2007

Medina magazine (Egypt-based architecture, design & art magazine 1998-archived at ArchNet)

Misr University, Cairo, Architecture Department

Mitchell, Timothy, Colonising Egypt, University of California Press, DT100.M57 1991

Perniola, Mario, Enigmas: the Egyptian moment in society and art, Verso, CB245.P41513 1995

Rabbat, Nasser, “Architects and artists in Mamluk society: the perspective of the sources,” Journal of Architectural Education, September 1998, p. 30-37 (PDF via Jstor)

Rabbat, Nasser, "Design without representation in medieval Egypt," Muqarnas, #25, 2008, p. 147-154 (PDF via Jstor)

 

​CAIRO

Alsayyad, Nezar, Cairo: histories of a city, Belknap Press, 2011 (ebook via ProQuest ebrary)

Angélil, Marc & Charlotte Malterre-Barthes (editors), Cairo desert cities, Ruby Press, HT169.57.E32 C353 2018

“Cairo,” Olivier, Paul, et al., Encyclopedia of Vernacular Architecture of the World, Cambridge University Press, Reference: NA208.E53 1997, v.2, p. 1603

Mayer, Wolfgang, “The invincible city with circulatory disorders: rehabilitation of the historic centre of Cairo,” Detail, September 2001, p. 1000-1005

Miller, John, Cairo: Tales of the City, Chronicle Books, DT143.C28 1994

Parker, Richard B., et al., Islamic monuments in Cairo: a practical guide, American University in Cairo Press, DT145.P37 2002

Rabbat, Nasser, “Writing the history of Islamic architecture in Cairo,” Design Book Review, #31, 1994, p. 48-51

Rodenbeck, Max, Cairo: the City Victorious, Knopf, DT143.R63 1999

Roode, Sigrid van, “Architecture of history: who owns the past?” Volume, #7, 2006, p. 48-53

Stewart, Desmond, Great Cairo, mother of the world, Hart-Davis, DT148.S75 1996

Williams, Caroline, Islamic monuments in Cairo: the practical guide, The American University in Cairo Press, DT145 .W55 2018

Yeomans, Richard, The art and architecture of Islamic CairoGarnet, 2006 (ebook via ProQuest Ebrary)

Beridze, V. & Antony Eastmond, “Georgia, Republic of,” Oxford Art Online

“Georgian,” Olivier, Paul, et al., Encyclopedia of Vernacular Architecture of the World, Cambridge University Press, Reference: NA208.E53 1997, v.2, p. 1474

Georgian Union of Architects

Asher, Catherine B., The New Cambridge history of India: Architecture of Mughal India, Cambridge University Press, N7307.N47 1992 pt.1, vol. 4

Begley, W. E., Taj Mahal: the illumined tomb: an anthology of Mughal and European sources, Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture, DS486.A3T34 1989

Burton-Page, John, Indian Islamic architecture: forms and typologies, sites and monuments, Brill, 2007 (ebook via ProQuest Ebrary)

Ruggles, D. Fairchild, Islamic gardens and landscapes, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011 (ebook via ProQuest Ebrary)

Koch, Ebba, “The Taj Mahal: architecture, symbolism, and urban significance,” Muqarnas, #22, 2005, p. 128-149 (PDF via Jstor)

Lafont, Jean Marie, Chitra: cities and monuments of eighteenth-century India from French archives, Oxford University Press, NA9250.6.L34 2001

Lambourn, Elizabeth, “Brick, timber, and stone: building materials and the construction of Islamic architectural history in Gujarat,” Muqarnas , #23, 2006, p. 191-217 (PDF via Jstor)

Martinelli, Antonio, et al., Princely Rajasthan: Rajput palaces and mansions, Vendome, NA1507.R35M37 2004    

Michell, George, et al., Fīrūzābād: palace city of the Deccan, Oxford University Press, NA1508.F57M53 1992

Michell, George & Mark Zebrowski, The New Cambridge history of India: Architecture and art of the Deccan sultanates, Cambridge University Press, N7307.N47 1987 pt. 1, vol. 7

Moynihan, Elizabeth B., Paradise as a garden: in Persia and Mughal India, Braziller, SB458.5 .M68 [1979]

Nabi, Ahmad Nabi, Islamic architecture in South Asia: Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Oxford University Press, NA1510.7.N33 2003

Nath, R., et al., "Mughal," Oxford Art Online

Pande, B.M., Qutb Minar and its monuments, Oxford University Press, DS486.D3 P36 2006

Patel, Alka, “The Rudra-mahalaya mosque of Siddhpur, Gujarat,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, June 2004, p. 144-163 (PDF via Jstor)

Petruccioli, Attilio, Fatehpur Sikri, VCH, NA1508.F3P4813 1992

Schimmel, Annemarie & Burzine K. Waghmar, Empire of the great Mughals: history, art and culture, Reaktion, DS461.E4813 2004

Volwahsen, Andreas, Cosmic architecture in India: the astronomical monuments of Maharaja Jai Singh II, Prestel, QB82.I4V65 2001   

Varuni, Ritu-Ngapnon,  The Apatani way of life: shaping a culture through bamboo, cane and land use, DS432.A6 V37 2023 

Akmal, Imelda, “Indonesian architecture now: enthusiasm within crisis,” A + U: Architecture & Urbanism, December 2005, p. 45-47

Davison, Julian, Introduction to Balinese architecture, Tuttle Pub., NA1526.6.B3D28 2003

Dawson, Barry, The traditional architecture of Indonesia, Thames & Hudson, NA1526.D39 1994

Dumarçay, Jacques, Cultural Sites of Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia, Oxford University Press, DS593.D86 1998

Fels, Patricia Tusa, Monsoon mosques: arrival of Islam and the development of a mosque vernacular, Mapin Publishing, NA4670 .F45 2020

Indonesia (scholarly journal published by Cornell University Press, PDFs of articles from 1966, with a 5-year delay, are available via Jstor)

“Indonesia, East,” and “Indonesia, West,” Olivier, Paul, et al., Encyclopedia of Vernacular Architecture of the World, Cambridge University Press, Reference: NA208.E53 1997, v.2, p. 1083

Indonesian Heritage Society

Kaltenbach, Frank, “Toraja houses in Sulawesi, Indonesia,” Detail, July/August, 1999, p. 780-783

Kusno, Abidin, Behind the postcolonial: architecture, urban space, and political cultures in Indonesia, Routledge, NA1526.K87 2000

Kusno, Abidin, “The Reality of one-which-is-two: mosque battles and other stories: notes on architecture, religion, and politics in the Javanese world,” Journal of Architectural Education, September 2003, p. 57-67 (PDF via Jstor)

Nas, Peter J.M. (Editor), The Past in the present: architecture in Indonesia, NAi, NA1526.P37 2006

Rawson, Philip S., The art of Southeast Asia: Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand, Laos, Burma, Java, Bali, Praeger, N5877.A8R3 1990

Saliya, Yuswadi, “The Indonesian experience,” in Hayat Salam (Editor), Expressions of Islam in buildings, Aga Khan Award for Architecture, 1990 (PDF via ArchNet)

Schefold, R., et al. (Editors), Indonesian Houses: Volume 2: Survey of vernacular architecture in Western Indonesia, Brill, 2008 (ebook via ProQuest Ebrary)

Stott, Philip, et al., “Indonesia, Republic of,” Oxford Art Online

Wijaya, Made, Architecture of Bali: a source book of traditional and modern forms, University of Hawai'i Press, NA1526.6.B34W548 2002

World Heritage Sites: Indonesia

Ardalan, Nader & Laleh Bakhitar, The Sense of unity: the Sufi tradition in Persian architecture, University of Chicago Press, NA1483.A67 [1973]

Blair, Sheila, “A medieval Persian builder,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, December 1986, p. 389-395 (PDF via Jstor)

Blair, Sheila & Jonathan Bloom, “Iran, Islamic Republic of,” Oxford Art Online

Canby, Sheila R., Safavid art and architecture, British Museum Press, N7280.S24 2002

Curatola, Giovanni, et al., The art and architecture of Persia, Abbeville Press, N7283.C8713 2007

Floor, Willem, “The Woodworking craft and its products in Iran,” Muqarnas, #23, 2006, p. 159-189 (PDF via Jstor)

Grigor, Talinn, Contemporary Iranian art: from the street to the studio, Reaktion Books, 2014 (ebook via ProQuest Ebrary)

Grigor, Talinn, “Use/Mis-use of Pahlavi public monuments and their Iranian reclaim,” Thresholds, #24, 2002, p. 47-53

Hobhouse, Penelope, Gardens of Persia, Kales Press, SB458.5.H63 2004

Iran (journal of the British Institute of Persian Studies, PDFs from 1963, with a 4-year delay, available via Jstor)

Iranian Studies (journal of the Association for Iranian Studies, PDFs from 1968, with a 7-year delay, available via Jstor)

Jodidio, Philip, Iran, architecture for changing societies, Aga Khan Award for Architecture, NA380.I73 2004

Jorgensen, Hemming, Ice houses of Iran : where, how, why, Mazda Publishers, NA8350 .J67 2012

Manzar: The Iranian Scientific Journal of Landscape (PDFs from 2009 available via www.manzar-sj.com)

Memarian, Gholamhossein & Frank Edward Brown, “Climate, culture, and religion: aspects of the traditional courtyard house in Iran,” Journal of Architectural and Planning Research, Autumn 2003, p. 181-198

“Mesopotamia & Plateau,” Olivier, Paul, et al., Encyclopedia of Vernacular Architecture of the World, Cambridge University Press, Reference: NA208.E53 1997, v.2, p. 1580

Modarres, Ali, Modernizing Yazd: selective historical memory and the fate of vernacular architecture, Mazda Publishers, NA9248.Y39 M63 2006

Moynihan, Elizabeth B., Paradise as a garden: in Persia and Mughal India, Braziller, SB458.5 .M68 [1979]

O’Kane, Bernard, Studies in Persian Art and Architecture, American University in Cairo Press, N7280.O42 1995

Özdural, Alpay, “Omar Khayyam, mathematicians, and conversazioni with artisans,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, March 1995, p. 54-71 (PDF via Jstor)

Porter, Yves & Arthur Thévenart, Palaces and gardens of Persia, Thames & Hudson, NA1480.P6413 2003

Sardashti, Sohrab, Iranian architecture : a visual history,.ACC Art Books, NA1483 .S37 2023

Shani, Raya, A monumental manifestation of the Shīʻite faith in late twelfth-century Iran: the case of the Gunbad-i ʻAlawiyān, HamadānOxford University Press, NA1483.S435 1996

Rizvi, Kishwar, “Religious icon and national symbol: the tomb of Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran,”Muqarnas, #20, 2003, p. 209-224 (PDF via Jstor)

Society of Iranian Architects & Planners (Los Angeles-based)

 

TEHERAN

“Paradoxical Teheran,” Domus, March 2007 (Theme issue)

“Was weiss über Teheran?” Bauwelt, September 23, 2005 (Theme issue)

Adenrele, Awotona (Editor), Rebuilding sustainable communities in Iraq: policies, programs and international perspectives, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008 (ebook via ProQuest Ebrary)

Blair, Sheila & Jonathan Bloom, “Iraq, Republic of,” Oxford Art Online

Ghoussoob, Mai, “Then more sorrow: horizontal needs and vertical ambitions in the Iraqi landscape,” Harvard Design Magazine, #19, 2003/2004, p. 74-79

Holden, Stacy E., A Documentary history of modern Iraq, University Press of Florida, 2012 (ebook via ProQuest Ebrary)

Iraq (journal of the British Institute for the Study of Iraq, PDFs of articles from 1934, with a 5-year delay, available via Jstor)

Makiya, Kanan, The monument: art and vulgarity in Saddam Hussein's Iraq, I.B. Taurus, NA9380.B34M25 2004

“Mesopotamia & Plateau,” Olivier, Paul, et al., Encyclopedia of Vernacular Architecture of the World, Cambridge University Press, Reference: NA208.E53 1997, v.2, p. 1580

“Palace power: C-Lab in conversation with Kanan Makiya,” Volume, #6, 2006, p. 74-87

Refugee Republic, 2012 (Interactive documentation of Syrian refugees living in Camp Domiz in Duhok, Iraq, produced by Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant)

 

BAGHDAD

Bernardsson, Magnus T., “Visions of Iraq: modernizing the past in Baghdad,” and Panayiota I. Pyla, “Baghdad’s urban restructuring, 1958: aestheticsand the politics of nation building,” in Sandy Isenstadt & Kishwar Rizvi (Editors), Modernism and the Middle East: architecture and politics in the Twentieth Century, University of Washington Press, 2011 (ebook via ProQuest Ebrary)

Damluji, Mona, "’New lights for Aladdin’: Utopian visions, architectures of tradition, and the making of modern Baghdad, 1950-1970," Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review, #1, 2010, p. 74-75 (PDF via Jstor)

Damluji, Mona, "’Securing Democracy in Iraq’: Sectarian politics and segregation in Baghdad, 2003-2007," Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review, #2, 2010, p. 71-87 (PDF via Jstor)

Loeffler, Jane C., "Fortress America," Foreign Policy, #162, 2007, p. 54-57 (PDF via Jstor)

Mather, Robert, “A new program at Baghdad,” Architecture, December 1965, p. 57-61

Architecture of Israel Quarterly (published since 1988; site contains complete digital copies, beginning with volume 35)

“Contemporary design in Israel,” Architectural Record, November 1952, p. 151-157

“Kibbutz,” Olivier, Paul, et al., Encyclopedia of Vernacular Architecture of the World, Cambridge University Press, Reference: NA208.E53 1997, v.2, p. 1510

Petti, Alessandro, Architecture after revolution, Sternberg Press, NA1477.P48 2013

Schwarzer, Mitchell, “The architecture of Talmud,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, December 2001, p. 474-487 (PDF via Jstor)

Segal, Rafi, et al., A Civilian occupation: the politics of Israeli architecture, Verso, NA1477.C58 2003

Solomon, Norman, Judaism: a very short introduction, Oxford University Press, BM45.S666 2000     

Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Faculty of Architecture & Town Planning, Haifa

Turner, Michael, et al. “Israel,” Oxford Art Online

 

JERUSALEM

Ezrahi, Sidra Dekoven, “To what shall I compare you? Jerusalem as Ground Zero of the Hebrew imagination,” PMLA, January 2007, p. 220-234 (PDF via Jstor)

Goldhill, Simon, Jerusalem: City of longing, Harvard University Press, 2009 (ebook via ProQuest Ebrary)

Grabar, Oleg, Jerusalem, Ashgate/Variorum, NA5978.J4G73 2005

Grabar, Oleg, Shape of the Holy: early Islamic Jerusalem, Princeton University Press, DS109.916.G73 1996

Misselwitz, Philipp & Tim Rieniets, City of collision: Jerusalem and the principles of conflict urbanism, Birkhäuser, HT169 .I75C57 2006

Nitzan-Shiftan, Alona, “The Walled City and the White City: the construction of the Tel Aviv/Jerusalem Dichotomy,” Perspecta, #39, 2007, p. 92-104 (PDF via Jstor)

Ousterhout, Robert, “Architecture as relic and the construction of sanctity: the stones of the Holy Sepulchre,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, March 2003, p. 4-23 (PDF via Jstor)

Rapaport, Raquel, “The City of the great singer: C. R. Ashbee's Jerusalem,” Architectural History, 2007, p. 171-210 (PDF via Jstor)

 

TEL AVIV

Azaryahu, Maoz, & S. Ilan Troen (Editors), Tel-Aviv, the first century: visions, designs, actualities, Indiana University Press, 2011 (ebook via ProQuest ebrary)

Confurius, Gerritt, “Tel Aviv and the transportability of the Modern Movement,” Daidalos, #54, 1994, p. 52-61

Hatuka, Tali, “Mediation between state, city, and citizens: architecture along the Tel Aviv shoreline,” Journal of Architectural & Planning Research, Spring 2007, p. 23-41

Kamp-Bandou, Irmel, Tel Aviv, modern architecture, 1930-1939, Wasmuth,  NA1478.T45K3613 1994

Levine, Mark, "Globalization, architecture, and town planning in a colonial city: the case of Jaffa and Tel Aviv," Journal of World History, #2, 2007, p. 171-98 (PDF via Jstor)

Schlör, Joachim, Tel Aviv: from dream to city, Reaktion Books, DS110.T357S3513 1999

Ali, W., “Jordan, Hashemite Kingdom of,” Oxford Art Online

Aquilino, Marie J., et al., “Free Zone: a conversation with Amos Gitai,” Log, #7, 2006, p. 79-89 (PDF via Jstor)

Borgia, Jordan, past & present: Petra, Jerash, Amman, DS-153.3 .B6713 2001

Center for the Study of the Built Environment (non-profit focusing on “challenges affecting the built environment in Jordan and beyond”)

“Eastern Mediterranean & Levant,” Olivier, Paul, et al., Encyclopedia of Vernacular Architecture of the World, Cambridge University Press, Reference: NA208.E53 1997, v.2, p. 1560

Lyons, Bill, Old houses of Jordan: Amman, 1920-1950, Turab, NA7419.J63A475 1997

Astana, Mayor’s Office official website

Hanley.William, “As Kazakhstan modernizes, so does its architecture,” Architectural Record, November 2008, p. 46

Inaba, Jeffrey, “Kazakhstan all over again,” Domus, May 2008, p. 99-104

“Kasachstan,” Bauwelt, March 28, 2002 (Theme issue)

Starodub, T. Kh., et al., “Kazakhstan,” Oxford Art Online

Yeomans, Mathew, “Dispatch from Kazakhstan,” Slate, July 19, 2004

Anderson R, & J. Al-Bader, “Recent Kuwaiti architecture: regionalism vs. globalization,” Journal of Architectural & Planning Research, Summer 2006, p. 134-146

Fabbri, Roberto, et al., Modern architecture Kuwait: 1949-1989, Niggli, NA1472.5.F33 2016

Kuwait, State of,” Oxford Art Online

Kuwait University, College of Architecture

Rajab, Tareq Sayid, Glimpses from the recent past: Kuwait, 1960-1980, Tareq Rajab Museum,  DS247.K82R35 2005

Rykwert, Joseph, “Kuwait,” Lotus International, #18, 1978, p. 126-135

Igmen, Ali, Speaking Soviet with an accent: culture and power in Kyrgyzstan, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012 (ebook via ProQuest Ebrary)

Osmoeva, Altynai, "Fazana's roots and wings," Moowon (online magazine and store), retrieved March 2019

Starodub, T. Kh., "Kyrgyzstan, Republic of," Oxford Art Online

American University of Beirut, Faculty of Engineering & Architecture

Atlas Group Archive (“established in 1999 to research and document the contemporary history of Lebanon”)

Harris, William, Lebanon: A History, 600-2011, Oxford University Press, 2012 (ebook via ProQuest Ebrary)

Lebanon, Republic of,” Oxford Art Online

Šāhīn, Rīšār ‘Abdallāh, Lebanon pictures of our heritage, Edition Richard Chahine, NA1476.6.L522 1996

Sarkis, Hashim, “Out of context: development and design in Lebanon,” Architectural Design, November/December 2004, p. 84-89

 

BEIRUT

Barden L., “Beyrouth,” Architecture d'aujourd'hui, September 2013, p. 90-97

Cambanis T., “View from--Beirut, Lebanon,” Architectural Review, June 2014, p. 35

El-Solh, Nayla, The PM's Beirut mansion : if walls could speak, Unicorn Publishing, NA7515.L4 L42 2021

Ragette, Friedrich, Beirut of Tomorrow, American University Beirut, NA9246.L42B452 1983

Sawalha, Aseel, Reconstructing Beirut, University of Texas Press, 2010 (ebook via ProQuest Ebrary)

Architecture in the Italian colonies in Africa, NA1.R37 1992 #51 (Theme issue of Rassegna magazine)

Azzouz, Intisar, Contemporary Libyan architecture: possibilities vs. realities, 2000 (PDF via ArchNet)

Blair, Sheila & Jonathan Bloom. "Libya," Oxford Art Online

Libyan Institute of Architects (Facebook)

Matar, Hisham, “Tripoli,” in Charles Arsene-Henry & Shumon Basar (Editors), Translated By, Bedford Press, PR1309.S5 T73 2011

McLaren, Brian L., Architecture and tourism in Italian colonial Libya: an ambivalent modernism, University of Washington Press, NA2543.T68M35 2006

McLaren, Brian L., “The Tripoli Trade Fair and the representation of Italy's African colonies,” Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts, #24, 2002, p. 170-197 (PDF via Jstor)

Messana, Gaspare., L'architettura musulmana della Libia, Edizioni del Grifone, NA1589.M562 1973

Rabbat, Nasser, "The Arab Revolution takes back the public space," Critical Inquiry, #1, 2012, p. 198-208 (PDF via Jstor)

Sibley M. & F. Fadli, “The surviving historic Hammāms of the Medina of Tripoli - Libya: tangible and intangible dimensions,” Archnet - IJAR: International Journal Of Architectural Research, 2008, p. 93-108 (PDF via Archnet)

2nd sight , Dept. of Architecture, Faculty of Built Environment, University Malaya, NA1525.M3K13 2005

Baxstrom, Richard, Houses in motion: the experience of place and the problem of belief in urban Malaysia, Stanford University Press, 2008 (ebook via ProQuest Ebrary)

Dumarçay, Jacques, Cultural Sites of Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia, Oxford University Press, DS593.D86 1998

Fels, Patricia Tusa, Monsoon mosques: arrival of Islam and the development of a mosque vernacular, Mapin Publishing, NA4670 .F45 2020

“Malaysia and Borneo,” Olivier, Paul, et al., Encyclopedia of Vernacular Architecture of the World, Cambridge University Press, Reference: NA208.E53 1997, v.2, p. 1126

Malaysian Institute of Architects

Smyth, Darlene, “Sense of place,” A+U, December 2005, p. 10-11

Stott, Philip, et al., “Malaysia,” Oxford Art Online

“Ayt Bu Gemmez,” Olivier, Paul, et al., Encyclopedia of Vernacular Architecture of the World, Cambridge University Press, Reference: NA208.E53 1997, v.2, p. 1600

Carver, Norman F., North African villages: Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Documan Press, NA1587.C37 1989

Djerbi, Ali & Abdelwahab Safi, “Teaching the history of architecture in Algeria, Tunisia, and Morocco,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, March 2003, p. 102-109 (PDF via Jstor)

Ecole Nationale d’Architecture, Rabat

Global Architecture Village and Towns: Morocco, NA7100.G14 #10

Graiouid, Said, “We have not buried the simple past: the public sphere and post-colonial literature in Morocco," Journal of African Cultural Studies, #2, 2008, p. 145-158 (PDF via Jstor)

Johnson, Katherine Marshall, Urbanization in Morocco, International Urbanization Survey, the Ford Foundation, HT169.M5 [1971]

Miller, Susan Gilson, et al., “Inscribing minority space in the Islamic city: the Jewish Quarter of Fez (1438-1912)” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, September 2001, p. 310-327 (PDF via Jstor)

Morton, Pat, “Madagascar and Morocco at the 1931 Colonial Exposition,” Journal of Architectural Education, November 1998, p. 76-86 (PDF via Jstor)

Pieprzak, Katarzyna, "Ruins, rumors and traces of the City of Brass: Moroccan modernity and memories of the Arab global city," Research in African Literatures, # 4, 2007, 187-203 (PDF via Jstor)

Rabinow, Paul, “France in Morocco: technocosmopolitanism and middling modernism,” Assemblage, #17, 1992, p. 52-57 (PDF via Jstor)

Tingaud, Jean Marc, et al., Medinas: Morocco's hidden cities, Assouline, DT305.2 .T56 1998

Verner, Corinee, et al., The villas and riads of Morocco, Abrams, NA7461.7.A1V4713 2005

Vernoit, S.J., et al., “Morocco, Kingdom of,” Oxford Art Online

Wright, Gwendolyn, The politics of design in French colonial urbanism, University of Chicago Press, NA1590.2.M44W75 1991

 

CASABLANCA

Berry-Chikhaoui, Isabelle, "Major urban projects and the people affected: the case of Casablanca's Avenue Royale," Built Environment, #2, 2010, p. 216-229 (PDF via Jstor)

Cohen, Jean-Louis, “Architectural history and the colonial question: Casablanca, Algiers and beyond,” Architectural History, 2006, p. 349-372 (PDF via Jstor)

Cohen, Jean-Louis, Casablanca : colonial myths and architecture ventures, Monacelli Press, NA1590.2.C37C6513 2002

Cohen, Jean-Louis, “The whiteness of the surf: Casablanca,” Any, #16, 1996, p. 16-19 (PDF via Jstor)

Carroll, Kevin, Architectures of Nigeria: architectures of the Hausa and Yoruba peoples, Lester Crook Academic Publishing, NA1599.N5C37 1992

Koolhaas, Rem, et al., Lagos wide and close: an interactive journey into an exploding city, Media shelf: HN831.L3L348 2005 (DVD)

Nigerian Building & Road Research Institute (official website)

“Nigerian Plateau,” Olivier, Paul, et al., Encyclopedia of Vernacular Architecture of the World, Cambridge University Press, Reference: NA208.E53 1997, v. 3, p. 2065

Nigerian Institute of Architects (official website)

Osasona, C. O., Ornamentation in Yoruba folk architecture, Bookbuilders Editions Africa, NA1599.N5O73 2005

Picton, John, et al., "Nigeria, Federal Republic of," Oxford Art Online

World Heritage Sites in Nigeria (UNESCO)

Al Harthy, Sultan, “Reading the traditional built environment of Oman,” in Ashraf M. A. Salama, Architectural education today: cross-cultural perspectives, Comportements, 2002 (PDF via ArchNet)

Al Maimani, Ahood Abdullah, et al., “Exploring socio-spatial aspects of traditional souqs: the case of Souq Mutrah, Oman," Archnet - IJAR: International Journal of Architectural Research, #1, 2014, p. 50-65 (PDF via ArchNet)

Lasdun, Susan, “View from Muscat,” Architectural Review, May 2006, p. 32

Oman, Sultanate of,” Oxford Art Online

“Oman,” Volume #6, 2006 (Theme issue)

“Omani,” Olivier, Paul, et al., Encyclopedia of Vernacular Architecture of the World, Cambridge University Press, Reference: NA208.E53 1997, v.2, p. 1456

Embree, Ainslie Thomas, et al., Sources of Indian tradition: Modern India and Pakistan, Columbia University Press, DS423.S64 1988

Glover, William J., Making Lahore modern: constructing and imagining a colonial city, University of Minnesota Press, 2007 (ebook via ProQuest Ebrary)

“India, Northwest and Indus,” Olivier, Paul, et al., Encyclopedia of Vernacular Architecture of the World, Cambridge University Press, Reference: NA208.E53 1997, v.2, p. 941

Institute of Architects, Pakistan

Marcella, Nesom-Sirhandi, et al., “Pakistan, Islamic Republic of,” Oxford Art Online

Mumtaz, Kamil Khan, Modernity and tradition: contemporary architecture in Pakistan, Oxford University Press, NA1510.M86 1999

Nabi, Ahmad Nabi, Islamic architecture in South Asia: Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Oxford University Press, NA1510.7.N33 2003

World Heritage Sites: Pakistan

Architects & Planners for Justice in Palestine

Blair, Sheila S. & Jonathan Bloom, “Palestine,” Oxford Art Online

Coyle S., “On the West Bank: a Palestinian village takes its future into its own hands,” Planning, February 2012, p. 36-39

Petti, Alessandro, Architecture after revolution, Sternberg Press, NA1477.P48 2013

Riwaq: Center for Architectural Conservation

Rosen-Ayalon, Myriam, Islamic art and archaeology in Palestine, Left Coast Press, DS111.1.R6713 2006

Shoked, Noam, “Design and Contestation in the Jewish Settlement of Hebron, 1967–87,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Vol.79, #1, 2020, p.82–102

Sorkin, Michael, “Urbanism is politics: lessons from a place where the extremes now rule,” Architectural Record, July 2002, p. 61-62

Suisman, Doug, et al., The Arc: a formal structure for a Palestinian state, Rand Corporation, 2005 (PDF via Rand Corporation)

Weizman, Eyal, “Architecture, power unplugged: Gaza evacuations,” Log, #6, 2005, p. 41-50 (PDF via Jstor)

Weizman, Eyal, & Andrew Herscher, “Conversation: architecture, violence, evidence," Future Anterior, #1, 2011, p.111-123 (PDF via Jstor)

Blair, Sheila & Jonathan Bloom, “Qatar, State of,” Oxford Art Online

“Qatar,” Olivier, Paul, et al., Encyclopedia of Vernacular Architecture of the World, Cambridge University Press, Reference: NA208.E53 1997, v.2, p. 1457

“Qatar,” Volume, #6, 2006 (Theme issue)

Salama, Ashraf, “Contemporary Qatari architecture as an open textbook,” ArchNet-IJAR: International Journal of Architectural Research, #3, 2007 (PDF via ArchNet)

 

DOHA

Hunter W., “A radical new masterplan for Doha cultivates a sustainable urban model, with buildings that embody a modern expression of Qatari culture,” Architectural Review, May 2011, p. 72-77 (text only via Ebsco ArtSource)

Hutzell Kelly, et al., “Inexhaustible ambition: two eras of planning in Doha, Qatar,” Architectural Design, January 2015, p. 80-91 

Mara Felix, “Doha: despite the polemic, the Qatari Musheireb development, masterplanned by AECOM, looks more to the past than the future,” Architects' Journal, February 17, 2011, p. 24-31 (PDF via architectsjournal.co.uk)

Msheireb, downtown Doha (developer website)

Salama, Ashraf & Florian Wiedmann, Demystifying Doha: on architecture and urbanism in an emerging city, Routledge, 2013 (ebook via ProQuest Ebrary)

Akpinar, Aysen, & Nurten Aksugur, "Architecture of hospitality: family-guest relations in contemporary Saudi houses," Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review, #1, 1992, p. 41-42 (PDF via Jstor)

Facey, William, Back to Earth: adobe building in Saudi Arabia, London Centre of Arab Studies, NA4145.A35F33 1997

King, G.R.D., The traditional architecture of Saudi Arabia, I.B. Taurus, NA1471.N35A42 1990

King Saud University, College of Architecture & Urban Planning

Parssinen, Jon, & Kaizir Talib, "A Traditional community and modernization: Saudi Camp, Dhahran," Journal of Architectural Education, #3, 1982, p. 14-17 (PDF via Jstor)

Saleh, Mohammed Abdullah Eben, “Life and death of traditional settlements of Southwest Saudi Arabia,” Journal of Architectural Education, February 1988, p. 177-191 (PDF via Jstor)

Saudi Arabia, Kingdom of,” Oxford Art Online

Shihabi, Basem, “Architecture in Saudi Arabia,” in Jamal Abed (Editor), Architecture re-introduced: new projects in societies in change, The Aga Khan Award for Architecture, 2004 (PDF via ArchNet)

Tentori, Francesco, “Riyadh,” Lotus International, #18, 1978, p. 104-125

 

MECCA

Ministry of Hajj, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Karimi A, & H. Burkhamseen, “Mecca's story is that of a city constantly battling its forced amnesia,” Clog, 2015, p. 54-55

Katz, Marion, “The Ḥajj and the study of Islamic ritual,” Studia Islamica, #98/99, 2004, p. 95-129 (PDF via Jstor)

Nomachi, Kazuyoshi, Mecca the blessed, Medina the radiant, Aperture, DS248.M4N66 1997

Rabbat, Nasser, “In the beginning was the house: on the image of the two noble sanctuaries of Islam,” Thresholds, #25, 2002, p. 56-59

Sardar, Ziauddin, “The Destruction of Mecca,” New York Times, 30 September 2014

Ali R., “Making of a modern African city [Modadishu]” RIBA Journal, March 2013, p. 42-43

Arnoldi, Mary Jo, "The Artistic heritage of Somalia," African Arts, #4, 1984, p. 24-93 (PDF via Jstor)

“East Africa,” Olivier, Paul, et al., Encyclopedia of Vernacular Architecture of the World, Cambridge University Press, Reference: NA208.E53 1997, v. 3, p. 1971

Somalia,” Oxford Art Online

Barrucand, Marianne & Achim Bednorz, Moorish architecture in Andalusia, Taschen, NA1309.A6B3713 2007

Cassellman Archive of Islamic & Mudejar Architecture in Spain

Dodds, Denise Jerrilynn, Architecture and ideology in early medieval Spain, Pennsylvania State University Press, NA1303.D63 1989

Ecker, Heather, "The Great Mosque of Córdoba in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries," Muqarnas , #20, 2003, p. 113-141 (PDF via Jstor)

Garen, Sally, “Santa María de Melque and church construction under Muslim rule,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, September 1992, p. 288-305 (PDF via Jstor)

Irwin, Robert, The Alhambra, Harvard University Press, DP402.A4I89 2004

Marías, Fernando, et al., "Spain," Oxford Art Online

Nuha N. N. Khoury, "The Meaning of the Great Mosque of Cordoba in the tenth century," Muqarnas , #13, 1996, p. 80-98 (PDF via Jstor)

Ruggles, D.F., "Arabic poetry and architectural Memory in Al-Andalus," Ars Orientalis, #23, 1993, p. 171-178 (PDF via Jstor)

Ruggles, D.F., Gardens, landscape, and vision in the palaces of Islamic Spain, Pennsylvania State University Press, SB457.8.R845 2000

Willmert, Todd, "Alhambra palace architecture: an environmental consideration of its inhabitation," Muqarnas, #27, 2010, p. 157-188 (PDF via Jstor)

Arensen, Jonathan E., Sticks and straw: comparative house forms in southern Sudan and northern Kenya, International Museum of Cultures, GN652.S93A73 1983

Duffield M., “Better safe than sorry: everyday life in post-interventionary society,” Volume, #26, 2010, p. 56-64

“Nile and Sudan,” and “Sahara and Sahel,” Olivier, Paul, et al., Encyclopedia of Vernacular Architecture of the World, Cambridge University Press, Reference NA208.E53 1997, v. 3, p. 2080, and 2099

Nour, Amir I.M., et al, “Sudan, Democratic Republic of the,” Oxford Art Online

Rao, Vyjayanthi, et al., "Invisible urbanism in Africa," Perspecta , #39, 2007, p. 78-91(PDF via Jstor)

Ball, Warwick, Syria: a historical and architectural guide, Interlink Books, DS94.B24 1997

Fowden, Garth, Qusayr Amra: art and the Umayyad elite in late antique Syria, University of California Press, ND2819.J6 F69 2004

Hillenbrand R., “La dolce vita in early Islamic Syria: the evidence of later Umayyad palaces,” Art History, March 1982, p. 1-35 (PDF via academia.edu)

Kafescioǧlu, Çiǧdem, "’In the image of Rūm’: Ottoman architectural patronage in sixteenth-century Aleppo and Damascus," Muqarnas, #16, 1999, p. 70-96 (PDF via Jstor)

Makariou, Sophie, et al., L'Orient de Saladin: l'art des Ayyoubides, Institut du monde arabe, N7289.6 .O75 2001

Al Quntar, Salam & Brian I. Daniels, "Responses to the destruction of Syrian cultural heritage: a critical review of current efforts," International Journal Of Islamic Architecture, #2, 2016, p. 381-397 (PDF via academia.edu)

Al-Sabouni, Marwa, The battle for home: the vision of a young architect in Syria, Thames & Hudson, NA1489.8.A55A2 2016

Syria,” Oxford Art Online

Tabbaa, Yasser, "Survivals and archaisms in the architecture of Northern Syria, ca. 1080 - ca. 1150," Muqarnas, #10, 1993, p. 29-41 (PDF via Jstor)

Wieseltier, Leon, “The Rubble of Palmyra,” The Atlantic, 4 September 2015

 

ALEPPO

Cantacuzino, Sherban, “Aleppo,” Architectural Review, October 1975, p. 241-250

Tabbaa, Yasser, "Circles of power: palace, citadel, and city in Ayyubid Aleppo," Ars Orientalis, #23, 1993, p. 181-200 (PDF via Jstor)

Tabbaa, Yasser, Constructions of power and piety in medieval Aleppo, Pennsylvania State University Press, NA1489.7.A43 T23 1997

Watenpaugh, Heghnar Zeitlian, Image of an Ottoman City: imperial Architecture and Urban Experience in Aleppo in the 16th and 17th Centuries, Brill, 2004 (ebook via ProQuest Ebrary)

 

DAMASCUS

George, Alain, The Umayyad mosque of Damascus : art, faith and empire in early Islam, Ginko, NA5989.7.D34 G46 2021

Keenan, Brigid, Damascus: hidden treasures of the old city, Thames & Hudson, NA7419.S9 K33 2000

Al-Kodmany K., “Women's visual privacy in traditional and modern neighborhoods in Damascus,” Journal of Architectural & Planning Research, Winter 2000, p. 283-303 (PDF via Jstor)

Sibley M., “The pre-Ottoman public baths of Damascus and their survival into the 21st century: an analytical survey,” Journal of Architectural & Planning Research, Winter 2007, p. 271-288

Nourzhanov, Kirill & Christian Bleuer, Tajikistan: a political and social history, Australian National University Press, 2013 (ebook via ProQuest Ebrary)

Starodub, T. Kh., "Tajikistan," Oxford Art Online

Cheikhrouhou, Ali. "Rural vernacular dwellings in the northwest of Tunisia," Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review, #1, 1994, p. 47-48 (PDF via Jstor)

Cherif I, Bouhoula N., “Tunis's new mosques constructed between 1975 and 1995: morphological knowledge,” Journal Of Islamic Architecture, June 2015, p. 115-126 (PDF via neliti.com)

Coslett D., “(Re)branding a (post)colonial streetscape: Tunis's Avenue Habib Bourguiba and the road ahead,” International Journal Of Islamic Architecture, March 2017, p. 59-96 (PDF via academia.edu)

Djerbi, Ali & Abdelwahab Safi, “Teaching the history of architecture in Algeria, Tunisia, and Morocco,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, March 2003, p. 102-109 (PDF via Jstor)

Golany, Gideon, Earth-sheltered dwellings in Tunisia, University of Delaware Press, NA7461.A1G6 1988

Kenzari, Bechir, "The Architects of the ‘Perchoir’ and the modernism of postwar reconstruction in Tunisia," Journal of Architectural Education, #3, 2006, p. 77-87 (PDF via Jstor)

“Matmata,” Olivier, Paul, et al., Encyclopedia of Vernacular Architecture of the World, Cambridge University Press, Reference: NA208.E53 1997, v.3, p. 2104

Tunisia, Republic of,” Oxford Art Online

“Architecture in Turkey,” A+U, July 2000 (Theme issue)

Bozdogan, Sibel, & Esra Akcan, Modern architectures in history: Turkey, Reaktion Books, 2013 (ebook via ProQuest Ebrary)

Dimmig A., “Fabricating a new image: imperial tents in the late Ottoman Period,” International Journal of Islamic Architecture, #2, 2014, p. 341-372 (PDF via academia.edu)

Erman, Tahire, et al., “Architects and the architectural profession in the Turkish context,” Journal of Architectural Education, November 2004, p. 46-53 (PDF via Jstor)

Hamdeh, shirine, “Ottoman expressions of early modernity,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, March 2004, p. 32-51 (PDF via Jstor)

Kezer, Zeynep, Building modern Turkey: state, space, and ideology in the Early Republic, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015 (ebook via ProQuest Ebrary)

Lifchez, Raymond, The Dervish lodge: architecture, art, and Sufism in Ottoman Turkey, University of California Press, NX688.T9D47 1992

Malcomson, Scott L., Empire's edge: travels in South-Eastern Europe, Turkey and Central Asia, Verso, DR16.M354 1994

Micklewright, Nancy, “Turkey, Republic of,” Oxford Art Online

Middle East Technical University, Department of Architecture

Saygin Salgirli, "Architectural anatomy of an Ottoman execution," Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians , #3, 2013, p. 301-321 (PDF via Jstor)

Tekeli D., “Contemporary architecture in Turkey: an evaluation,” Architectural Design, November 2004, p. 90-97

Wolper, Ethel Sara, Cities and saints: Sufism and the transformation of urban space in medieval Anatolia, Pennsylvania University Press, NA1363.W65 2003

 

ISTANBUL / CONSTANTINOPLE / BYZANTIUM

Barillari, Diana & Ezio Godoli, Istanbul 1900, Rizzoli, NA1370.B3713 1996

Çelik, Zeynep, The remaking of Istanbul : portrait of an Ottoman city in the nineteenth century, University of California Press, NA9030.I8C44 1993

Freely, John, Istanbul: the imperial city, Penguin, DR728.F75 1998

Istanbul, Constantinople, Byzantium, Rassegna, NA1.R37 #72 1997

Koçak, Dilek Özhan, et al., Whose city is that? culture, design, spectacle and capital in Istanbul, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014 (ebook via ProQuest Ebrary)

Necipoğlu, Gülru, Architecture, ceremonial, and power: the Topkapi Palace in the 15th and 16th centuries, New York Architectural History Foundation, NA1370.N43 1991

Pamuk, Orhan, The Black Book, Vintage international, PL248.P34K3713 2006

Edgar, Adrienne Lynn, Tribal nation: the making of Soviet Turkmenistan, Princeton University Press, 2006 (ebook via ProQuest Ebrary)

Starodub, T. Kh., et al. "Turkmenistan," Oxford Art Online

World Heritage Sites in Turkmenistan (UNESCO)

American University of Sharja, Department of Architecture

Blair, Sheila & Jonathan Bloom, “United Arab Emirates,” Oxford Art Online

Gorgenländer, Viktor, A Strategic analysis of the construction industry in the United Arab Emirates, Diplomica Verlag, 2011 (ebook via ProQuest Ebrary)

Jodidio, Philip, AE: architecture in the Emirates, Taschen, NA1473.A73 2007

Michalak-Pikulska, Barbara, Modern literature of the United Arab Emirates, Jagiellonian University Press, 2012 (ebook via ProQuest Ebrary)

UAE and the Gulf: architecture and urbanism now,” Architectural Digest, January/February 2015 (ebook via ProQuest Ebrary)

 

ABU DHABI / ABŪ ẒABĪ

“Abu Dhabi,” Architectural Review, October 1967, p. 307-309

El-Dahdah, Farès, “Letter from Abu Dhabi,” Any, #13, 1996, p. 8-9

Plan Abu Dhabi 2030: urban structure framework plan, Abu Dhabi Urban Planning Council, NA9246.U542A28 2007

 

DUBAI / DUBAYY

Ali, Syed, Dubai: gilded cage, London, Yale University Press, 2010 (ebook via ProQuest Ebrary)

Angélil, Marc & Cary Siress, “Dubai, Inc.,” Log, #8, 2006, p. 137-142 (PDF via Jstor)

Basar, Shumon (Editor), Cities from zero, Architectural Association, HT384.U5C58 2007

Berbić, Amir, “Dubai: land of contrasts,” Design Issues. Summer 2006, p. 42-47 (PDF via Jstor)

Davis, Mike & Daniel Bertrand Monk, “Sand, Fear & Money in Dubai,” in Evil paradises, New Press, HB501.E848 2007

Donis, Fernando, “Dubai,” A.A. Files, #53, 2006, p. 48-55 (PDF via Jstor)

Dubai architecture & design, Daab, NA1473.2.D8 D8 2006

Elsheshtawy Y. & R. Aima, “Everybody wants to be Dubai,” Mark: Another Architecture, August 2016, p. 130-135

Kanna, Ahmed, Dubai, the city as corporation, University of Minnesota Press, 2011 (ebook via ProQuest Ebrary)

Ramos, Stephen J., Dubai amplified: the engineering of a port geography, Routledge, 2010 (ebook via ProQuest Ebrary)

Reisz T., “Future flyovers: Dubai in 1971,” Architectural Design, January 2015, p. 100-105

Rizvi, Kishwar, "Modernism's utopic present: architecture in contemporary Dubai," Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review , #22, 2010, p. 51 (PDF vis Jstor)

Al Sager, Ayesha, et al., “Neither desperate nor decadent,” Volume, #6, 2006, p. 9-11

Chuvin, Pierre, Samarkand, Bukhara, Khiva, Flammarion, NA1498.S3C48 2001

Shaw, Charles, "The Gur-i Amir mausoleum and the Soviet politics of preservation," Future Anterior: Journal of Historic Preservation, History, Theory, and Criticism, #1, 2011, p. 43-63 (PDF via Jstor)

Shiskina, G.B. & N.B. Nemtseva, “Samarkand,” Oxford Art Online

Starodub, T. Kh., “Uzbekistan, Republic of,” Oxford Art Online

Stronski, Paul., Tashkent: forging a Soviet city, 1930–1966, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010 (ebook via ProQuest Ebray)

Bennouna, Mohamed, Yemen: architecture millenaire, Institut du monde arabe, NA1470.Y45Y46 1992

Damluji, Salma Samar, The architecture of Yemen and its reconstruction, Laurence King Publishing, NA1490.Y45 D36 2021

Finster, Barbara, "An Outline of the history of Islamic religious architecture in Yemen," Muqarnas, #9, 1992, p. 124-147 (PDF via Jstor)

Lamprakos, Michele, "Rethinking cultural heritage: lessons from Sana'a, Yemen," Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review, #2, 2005, p. 17-37 (PDF via Jstor)

Marchand, Trevor, "The lore of the master builder: working with local material and local knowledge in Sana'a, Yemen," Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review, #1, 2000, p. 43-44 (PDF via Jstor)

Maréchaux, Maria, Impressions of Yemen, Flammarion, DS247.O6 M3713 1997

Al Radi S. & C. Borelli, “'We will do it ourselves': Selma Al Radi on the restoration of the 'Amiriya Complex, Yemen,” Future Anterior: Journal Of Historic Preservation History, Theory, & Criticism, Winter 2008, p. 62-71 (PDF via Jstor)

Um, Nancy, The Merchant houses of Mocha: trade and architecture in an Indian Ocean port, University of Washington Press, 2011 (ebook via ProQuest Ebrary)

Um, Nancy, "Spatial negotiations in a commercial city: the Red Sea port of Mocha, Yemen, during the first half of the eighteenth century," Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, #2, 2003, p. 178-193 (PDF via Jstor)

Varanda, Fernando, Art of building in Yemen, MIT Press, NA1470.V37 1982

Varanda, Fernando, "Twenty years of change in the built environment of Yemen," Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review, #2, 1998, p. 63-77 (PDF via Jstor)

Yemen, Republic of,” Oxford Art Online

“Yemen,” Olivier, Paul, et al., Encyclopedia of Vernacular Architecture of the World, Cambridge University Press, Reference: NA208.E53 1997, v.2, p. 1445

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