Identity-as-Form: The Mosque in the West
تاريخ الاضافة
02/07/2022
نوع المحتوى
Documentary
Category
Researches
الرابط للمحتوى
Subject Area
Mosques
الكاتب
Nebahat Avcioglu
الناشر
By Nebahat Avcioglu
Year of Publication
2007
الوصف
This article is a reconsideration of the ethical conceptual framework developed by
Edward Said in his book Orientalism
within an art historical context. It focuses
primarily on the relationship between form
and cultural identity in the architecture of
contemporary mosques in Europe and
North America to discuss key theoretical
issues and current methodological tendencies in cross-cultural art history. The aim
is to explore the highly charged topic of
contemporary mosque architecture and
minority cultural identity through the
prism of what I call the Saidian turn. The
article concludes by suggesting that one
of the virtues of the Saidian turn is to
contextualize 'otherness' not as a cultural
dead-end burdened by an over-determining sense of identity but as an opportunity to participate in a material and openended becoming.