By Eric Roose
ISBN-10: 9089641335
ISBN-13: 9789089641335
This ebook is a learn of Dutch mosque designs, items of heated public debate. beforehand, stories of diaspora mosque designs have mostly consisted of normative architectural opinions that reject the ever-present 'domes and minarets' as hampering additional Islamic-architectural evolution. The Architectural illustration of Islam: Muslim-Commissioned Mosque layout within the Netherlands represents a transparent holiday with the architectural severe narrative, and meticulously analyzes twelve layout techniques for Dutch mosques. It exhibits that consumers, through consciously making a choice on, guidance and exchanging their architects, have even more effect on their mosques than has been quite often assumed. during the cautious transformation of particular construction parts from Islamic architectural heritage to a brand new context, they actually goal to 'construct' the last word Islam. Their designs therefore evolve no longer against Dutch society, yet to these types of Islam that they carry to be fake.
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The reference to empty notions such as ‘Western modernity’, ‘non-Western society’, ‘Swahili culture’, ‘the Islamic worldview’, or ‘Calvinist Holland’, presented as objective and uncontested contexts of architecture that need no further interrogation, prevents proper analysis. The absoluteness of these general contexts, as if they were some kind of physical characteristic of the building, can frustrate any attempt to gain insight into possible and probable relations with buildings from other times and places.
The following case studies will show that mosque design proposals can evoke completely deviating reactions among, but also within, municipal departments, councils and commissions, making it very difficult to predict the reception and speed of a particular plan even if there is an official municipal policy on the subject. 37 1. Hindustani-Commissioned Mosque Design in€The€Netherlands The first purpose-built mosque in The Netherlands was opened in 1955 in The Hague by a Hindustani-Islamic missionary community from Pakistan.
There is even no point in analytically thinking of them as traditions undergoing some kind of process, as if they were still a tangible part of an objective empirical reality. Here, we will merely speak of building elements as recognized by a specific Muslim patron, possibly interpreted as a tradition by him but only in the way and for the particular reasons he required. The analyst should realize that all Muslim patrons meaningfully and by definition establish a pragmatic transformation of building elements to a new context, even if they claim to ‘stand in an age-old tradition’, but also that all Muslim patrons meaningfully and by definition make use of earlier representations, even if they claim to ‘leave the past behind’.
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