Aspects of Arabic Islamic Architectural Discourse (Aspecten van de Arabisch-Islamitisch Architectonische Verhandeling)

摘要

The study highlights Arabic Islamic architectural discourse as displayed inArabic Islamic sources. It aims to sketch out the ways in which Arab Muslims thought about and practiced architecture. It also seeks to explore principles, concepts and notions that partly constituted and presumably are still constituting the structure of the discourse and partly governed the making of Arabic Islamic architecture in order to reimplement them in the making of contemporary Arabic Islamic architecture. In so doing, an attempt is made to investigate the origin and formation of the discourse. The formation is displayed in three stages: general, specific and case studies.