Decolonizing Islamic Art in Africa

New Approaches to Muslim Expressive Cultures

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Miller, AshleyHrsg.

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302 Seiten

Englisch

Intellecterscheint am15.11.2024

Addresses the dynamic place of Islamic art, architecture, and creative expression in decolonizing processes across the African continent. Brings together new work by leading scholars of African, Islamic, and modernist visual cultures to challenge the disciplinary boundaries that have curtailed the study of African Muslim expression. 74 col. illus.mehr

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KlappentextAddresses the dynamic place of Islamic art, architecture, and creative expression in decolonizing processes across the African continent. Brings together new work by leading scholars of African, Islamic, and modernist visual cultures to challenge the disciplinary boundaries that have curtailed the study of African Muslim expression. 74 col. illus.

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ISBN/GTIN978-1-83595-000-5

ProduktartBuch

EinbandartGebunden

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Intellect

Erscheinungsjahr2024

Erscheinungsdatum15.11.2024

Seiten302 Seiten

SpracheEnglisch

MasseBreite 170 mm, Höhe 230 mm

Artikel-Nr.61448852

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List of FiguresAcknowledgements Introduction: Un-Disciplining African Muslim Expressive CulturesAshley MillerPart 1 - Beyond Borders: African (and) Muslim Objects as Relational Loci´1. Dispersal, Decolonization, and Dominance: African Muslim Objects from the Swahili Sultanate of Witu (1858-1923)Zulfikar Hirji2. A Land that Fulfils Dreams´: Rethinking Zanzibar´s Stone Town Beyond a Colonial ImaginaryMichelle ApotsosPart 2 - Disobedient Media: Reclaiming African Muslim Expressive Cultures3. Disobedient´ Perspectives on African Muslim ArtsAllen F. Roberts and Mary Nooter Roberts4. Entanglements of Belonging: Regional and Global Bonds in an Urban Muslim MasqueradeLisa Homann5. Tattooing as Subversive Archive: Safaa Mazirh´s Reclamation of Tattoos in Postcolonial MoroccoCynthia BeckerPart 3 - Mobilizing Heritage: Painting Postcolonial Identities6. Calligraphy in Mauritania: Creating a Lost IdentityMark Dike DeLancey7. Possessed: The Mystical Post-Surrealism of Wifredo Lam, Abdel HadiAlex Dika Seggerman8. Cybernetics and Postcolonial UtopiasHoliday PowersPart 4 - Undisciplined Constructions: Relocating Islamic´ Architecture in Africa9. Between Art and Architecture, Modernism and MakhzenEmma Chubb10. Kader Attia´s Alternative History of the Grands Ensembles, from France to Algeria and BackJacobé HuetContributor Biographies Indexmehr