We are pleased to announce the publication of a new book by Professor Heba Mostafa:
Structured as five microhistories c. 632-705, Architecture of Anxiety, Body Politics and the Formation of Islamic Architecture offers a counternarrative for the formation of Islamic architecture and the Islamic state. It adopts a novel periodization informed by moments of historical violence and anxiety around caliphal identities in flux, animating histories of the minbar, throne, and maqsura as a principal nexus for navigating this anxiety. It expands outward to re-assess the mosque and palace with a focus on the Qubbat al-Khadraʾ and the Dar al-Imara in Kufa. It culminates in a reading of the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem as a site where eschatological anxieties and political survival converge.
Publisher: Brill
Published: March 2024
ISBN (Hardback): 978-90-04-67777-7
Available at Brill Publishers, Amazon.ca & Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, and other retailers.
ISBN (E-Book): 978-90-04-69018-9
eBook: Brill Publishers