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> H-ASIA
> April 13, 2011
>
> CFP: SAH Panel on Non-Muslim Sites in Islamic Societies
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> From: M. Gharipour mgharipour@gmail.com
>
> *SACRED PRECINCTS: NON-MUSLIM SITES IN ISLAMIC SOCIETIES*
>
> Sacred architecture offers valuable insights into the priorities and
> prerogatives of the world's great religions, while revealing cultural and
> political attitudes within and between those faiths. Of particular
> interest
> in the current global political climate are the relationships between
> architectural forms associated with Islam and those of non-Muslim
> communities. Whether constructed by non-Muslims in a predominantly Muslim
> society or preserved in their original forms and/or functions after the
> arrival of Islam, it is in the structures and spaces of non-Muslims that
> one
> may find some of the most potent articulations of cultural identity.
>
> This panel invites papers which examine structures and spaces created by
> and
> for non-Muslims in predominantly Muslim societies from the emergence of
> Islam in the 7th century to the present day. Papers may focus on a single
> monument, a building type, a particular city or region, a faith other than
> Islam, or any other topic relevant to the historical presence of
> non-Muslim
> sacred architecture in Islamic cultures. The papers could clarify how the
> new architecture responded to the contextual issues and traditions or how
> the new context influenced a historically established design. The papers
> in
> this panel could also discuss the pre-existing monuments preserved after
> the
> arrival of Islam (e.g., medieval structures in Islamic Spain; Christian
> churches in Jerusalem, and synagogues in Isfahan); religious monuments
> constructed in an area under the political or religious control of
> Muslims,
> such as those built by Hindu and Sikh populations in Sultanate and Mughal
> South Asia; and monuments constructed by non-Muslims who arrived from
> elsewhere in regions under Muslim control (e.g., Sephardic Jews,
> Armenians,
> Dutch, and Portuguese). Especially welcome are papers that deploy new
> methodological, theoretical, and comparative approaches to the analysis of
> such structures.
>
> Session chairs: Mohammad Gharipour, College of Architecture and Planning,
> Montebello Complex, Morgan State University; mohammad@gatech.edu; and
> Stephen Caffey, Department of Architecture, Texas A&M University;
> scaffey@arch.tamu.edu
>
> All abstracts should be submitted online by June 1, 2011. For more
> information, please visit the website of the Society of Architectural
> Historians: www.sah.org/2012
>
> M. Gharipour
> mgharipour@gmail.com
>
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