Earthen Architecture in Muslim Cultures: Historical and Anthropological Perspectives

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Acknowledgements and Note on Transliteration

Notes on Contributors

1 Adobe as an Islamic Standard: Vernacular Cosmopolitics

2 The Great Mosque of Timbuktu: Seven Centuries of Earthen Architecture

3 The Periphery Walls of Sijilmāsa, a Medieval Islamic City in Morocco: Contribution to the Identification of Typological and Functional Variability of the Pisé Technique

4 Draa Valley: Tighremt and Igherm, Morocco

5 The Use of Earth in the Construction of the Qṣūr in Southeastern Algeria

6 Identity and Architecture: The Fātimid Walls in Cairo

7 Mud Brick Architecture in Ḥaḍramawt-Yemen under the Quʿaiti and Kathiri Sultanates

8 Building on the Shoreline: Insights into the Use of Earth in the Architecture of the Late 18th and 19th Centuries in Qatar

9 Residential Compounds: Earthen Architecture in the Central Desert of Iran

10 Traditions of Monumental Decoration in the Earthen Architecture of Early Islamic Central Asia

11 Ottoman Earth Architecture in Buda (1541–1686)

12 Between Tradition and Modernity: Building with Earth in a Contemporary City

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