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A Historiography of the Mosque: Reconciling a Renaissance of Spirituality in the Material Forms of Islamic Architecture
تاريخ الاضافة
07/07/2019
نوع المحتوى
Documentary
Category
Researches
الرابط للمحتوى
Subject Area
Architecture
الكاتب
Norwina MohdNawawi
Puteri Shireen JahnKassim
Sufian Hamat.
الناشر
American Scientific Publishers
Year of Publication
2016
1. Introduction 2. Meaning 3. Arabian Beginnings 4. The Nusantara Region 5. Spirituality and its Formal Principles 6. Space and Form: Spiritual Phenomenology. 6.1. Emerging from the spiritual to the mundane in space 6.2. Spirituality as a generator of space and roof 6.3. The communal and supportive spaces 6.4. Universal patterns 6.5. Ornamentation as devotion 6.6. Markers (landmarks and reminders) & Minarets 6.7. Light 6.8. Water and Purification 6.9. Adab and Hijab (ritual and privacy) - Segregative space 7. Conclusion
الوصف
The simplicity and austerity
of the first Masjid or Mosque in Islam contrasted with the wide array,
diversity and occasional grandeur of Mosque forms. A review of the
historiography of the mosque often generates a stereotype view of the
‘archetypical’ form of domes and arches. What is missing is a discourse as to
what constitutes a more spiritually-linked framework linking Islam to the
formative ideas and eventual compositions of mosques in the modern world.
The present diversity of the Islamic world including cultures in
the Far East and the Western world necessitates a rethinking of what
fundamentally constitutes the spiritual basis of space in Masjid. A historical
and critical view of the mosque as a global type-form should be reviewed rather
than the persistent hold of its Arab-Islamic origins in driving the notion of
archetypes in Mosque design.
The history of mosque was contrived from the Oriental
perspectives and historical writings of the Islamic civilization on
architecture. As part and parcel of the reconciliation of the fundamentals of
Islam in the field of architecture, this discourse aims to uncover common
principles that can embrace the increasing diversity and dialectic of the
ummah.
The discourse attempts a re-look into how the spiritual ethos of Islam can be brought into a formal discourse of mosque architecture. It is hoped that if such forms can be read as the physical materialization of inherent values of Islam, then it can account for the historical and formal evolution of mosque architecture throughout the world. In this sense, more fundamental principles can embrace its diversity and tolerance that has been its hallmark of Islam since its expansion outside the Arabian Peninsula.
The study
reviewed selected mosques of the globe including the mosques from the Malay
Archipelago region or the Nusantara. The study hopes to reflect certain
intentions and predisposition that linked ultimately to spirituality, identity
and a certain monumentality needed in reading the multiple variations of the
universal type-form Mosque, as the house of Allah.