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21	Making Manifest : Grounding Islam Josephson, Alexander 18 December 2009 (has links) The Caveat For many reasons, names have had to be concealed within this document. The events depicted are real and the discussions true. This is an attempt to legitimize the informal, seemingly mundane and sometimes personal: the author’s experiences bringing a folly to the physical, while trespassing into a new world: Islam. This thesis documents a series of interventions at different scales within that world. There is a book, the chair, and the city of Makkah. The events themselves are superimposed onto the traditional language, or professional conventions, used to justify them. Here, they are relegated to the margins of each page. This is akin to how some of the first books were produced, by students in the confines of dark cloisters or hot desert temples, struggling to maintain historical integrity while fighting the natural tendencies of youth. Their master’s voices always looking over the gutter from the opposite page. The sketches for a new Makkah and a monumental demonstration in Canada unfold in parallel to a body of formal research. Together, as seemingly independently as they are, they paint the portrait of an Islam, while building a personality between the lines. That being said: there isn’t a correct way to read it. Sculpture Islam Mecca Architecture Makkah Salaat Muybridge Josephson Design Manifest Perverse Revolution Scanning Queen's Park Ka'baa Ka'bah Design for Makkah Prayer Mat Bound in Sandpaper Alexander Josephson Design in Islam Islamic Architecture WTC September 11th Architecture in the age of righteousness post critical architectural theory architectural criticism Architecture
22	Empire of the Hajj: Pilgrims, Plagues, and Pan-Islam under British Surveillance,1865-1926 Low, Michael Christopher 16 July 2007 (has links) From roughly 1865 to 1926, the forces of European imperialism brought the Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca under the scrutiny of non-Muslim interests. The driving force behind this dramatic change was the expansion of the British Empire’s maritime supremacy in the Indian Ocean basin. With the development of steamship travel and the opening of the Suez Canal, colonial authorities became increasingly involved in the surveillance of seaborne pilgrims. During this period, the hajj came to be recognized as both the primary conduit for the spread of epidemic diseases, such as cholera and plague, and a critical outlet for the growth of Pan-Islamic networks being forged between Indian dissidents, pilgrims, and the Ottoman Empire. As a result, the British and Ottoman empires engaged in a struggle for control of the hajj, which would ultimately reshape both the hajj and the political landscapes of the Middle East and South Asia. Anjuman-i Khuddam-i Ka‘ba British Empire Caliphate Cholera Hajj Hijaz India Indian Ocean World International Sanitary Conferences Islamic World Kamaran Island Khilafat Movement Mecca Ottoman Empire Pan-Islam Pilgrimage Plague Quarantine Red Sea Saudi Arabia Sultan Abdul Hamid II Yemen World History World War I History
23	Magický realismus v perské a saúdské próze / Magical Realism in Persian and Saudi Narrative Writing Vojtíšková, Věra January 2016 (has links) The dissertation Magical Realism in Persian and Saudi Narrative Writing views as essential the assumption that the phenomenon of magical realism is not restricted solely to the cultures with colonial legacy, but is transferable to literary works created under systematic and systemic violence anywhere in the world. Previous research of the dissertation's author proved the existence of parallels in the dynamics of sociopolitical development of Iran and Saudi Arabia in the 20th century, foremost in the power relation of the states to their citizens and in the status of women in the society, while there was a strong tendency towards institutionalization of the traditional patriarchal, androcentric and misogynic societal paradigms since the second half of the 20th century. In the last thirty years, women have countered this situation through increased literary activity that has turned out to be an important means of self-fulfillment and emancipation. The fact that some of the most significant Iranian and Saudi women writers use magical realism directed the research to examination of this concept's relevance for the Persian and Saudi narrative writing, inquiry into the reflection of the gender issues and their comparison in both literatures. A detailed case study of two works, each from one country, led...

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