This collection contains abstracts for the research articles in International Journal of Islamic Architecture, Volume 7, Number 2 (2018). To access the abstracts, click the orange "view the collections" button.
Full contents of Volume 7, Number 2
Editorials:
- Weber, Stefan. "Pulling the Past into the Present: Curating Islamic Art in a Changing World, a Perspective from Berlin." pp. 237-261.
- McClary, Richard Piran. "Re-Contextualizing the Object: Using New Technologies to Reconstruct the Lost Interiors of Medieval Islamic Buildings." pp. 263-283.
- Fabbri, Roberto. "A Museum without Walls: Dar al-Athar al-Islamiyyah’s Cultural Diplomacy." pp. 285-303.
- Kenney, Ellen. "Interpolated Spaces: The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s ‘Damascus Room’ Reinstalled." pp. 305-323.
- Leoni, Francesca. "Islamic Occultism and the Museum." pp. 327-351.
- Karl, Barbara, Angela Völker and Michael Embacher. "A Sanctuary for Carpets: The New Installation at the MAK – Museum für angewandte Kunst, Vienna, 2014." pp. 353-370.
Book reviews:
- Wharton-Durgaryan, Alyson. Review of Building Modern Turkey: State, Space and Ideology in the Early Republic, by Zeynep Kezer; and Mid-Century Modernism in Turkey: Architecture Across Cultures in the 1950s and 1960s, Meltem Ö. Gürel (ed). pp. 373-377.
- Farag, Joseph R. Review of Space and Mobility in Palestine, by Julie Peteet. pp. 378-379.
- Hein, Carola and Sedighi, Mohamad. Review of Kuwait Transformed: A History of Oil and Urban Life, by Farah Al-Nakib. pp. 380-382.
- Hellman, Amanda H. Review of Swahili Port Cities: The Architecture of Elsewhere, by Prita Meier. pp. 382-384.
- Gilvin, Amanda. Review of Architecture, Islam, Identity in West Africa: Lessons from Larabanga, by Michelle Apotsos. pp. 384-387.
Exhibition reviews:
- Dalal, Radha. Review of 'Imperial Threads: Motifs and Artisans from Turkey, Iran, and India', Museum of Islamic Art, Doha, Qatar, March 14, 2017–January 27, 2018. pp. 391-394.
Conference precis:
- Ünlüönen, Selin. Review of 'Writing/Curating the Middle East', Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States, March 30–31, 2017. pp. 397-399.
- Tabbal, Sarah. Review of 'The Artistic Heritage of al-Andalus and National Identity', Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, October 27–29, 2017. pp. 399-401.