Cosmology and Architecture in Premodern Islam: An Architectural Readings of Mystical Ideas
This fascinating interdisciplinary study reveals connections between architecture, cosmology, and mysticism. Samer Akkach demonstrates how space ordering in premodern Islamic architecture reflects the transcendental and the sublime. The book features many new translations, a number from unpublished sources, and several illustrations. Referencing a wide range of mystical texts, and with a special focus on the works of the great Sufi master Ibn >Arabiµ, Akkach introduces a notion of spatial...
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A fascinating exploration of how the transcendent is expressed in the spatial sensibility of premodern Islam.
Ch. 1Discursive order1Ch. 2Metaphysical order55Ch. 3Cosmic order113Ch. 4Architectural order149Afterword : architecture and cosmic habitat207
