Earthen Architecture in Muslim Cultures: Historical and Anthropological Perspectives - Paperback

by Stéphane Pradines (Volume Editor)

This edited volume follows the panel "Earth in Islamic Architecture" organised for the World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES) in Ankara, on the 19th of August 2014. Earthen architecture is well-known among archaeologists and anthropologists whose work extends from Central Asia to Spain, including Africa. However, little collective attention has been paid to earthen architecture within Muslim cultures. This book endeavours to share knowledge and methods of different disciplines such as history, anthropology, archaeology and architecture. Its objective is to establish a link between historical and archaeological studies given that Muslim cultures cannot be dissociated from social history.

Contributors: Marinella Arena; Mounia Chekhab-Abudaya; Christian Darles; Axel Daussy; Elarbi Erbati; François-Xavier Fauvelle; Elizabeth Golden; Moritz Kinzel; Rolando Melo da Rosa; Romain Mensan; Atri Hatef Naiemi; Adrienn Papp; Bertrand Poissonnier; Stéphane Pradines; Paola Raffa and Paul D. Wordsworth.

Author Biography

Stéphane Pradines is an archaeologist and Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture at the Aga Khan University, Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations (AKU-ISMC) in London. S. Pradines received his PhD in 2001 from the University of the Sorbonne in Paris, then from 2001 to 2011, he was the Head of Islamic archaeology Department for the prestigious French Institute of Archaeology in Cairo, Egypt. Stéphane Pradines was the Director of several archaeological excavations such as the Fatimid and Ayyubid Walls of Cairo and many other excavations in the Indian Ocean (Maldives) and East Africa (Kenya, Tanzania, Comoros). Stephane Pradines is a specialist of Islamic archaeology in Sub-Saharan Africa, Indian Ocean medieval trade, Swahili architecture and Muslim material cultures of war: military architecture and weapons.