Multiple modernities in Muslim societies / edited by Modjtaba Sadria. - London : Aga Khan Award for Architecture, 2007. - 156 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Papers from "the workshop on the topic of Tangible Elements of Multiple Modernities, held at the Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations (AKU-ISMC) in London in May 2007." Some bibliographical references in multiple languages.

Includes bibliographical references.

Modernities: Re-posing the issues / Modjtaba Sadria -- From civilisations to multiple modernities: The issue of the public sphere / Armando Salvatore -- Iranian Islamic modernities / Masoud Kamali -- Why Critical Modernism? / CharlesJencks -- From critique in modernity to critique of modernity / Homa Farjadi -- A destructive vacuum: The marginalisation of local knowledge and reassertion of local identities / Farid Panjwani -- Modernity: Keep out of reach of children / Fatemeh Hosseini-Shakib -- Multiple modernities: A theoretical frame / Masoud Kamali -- Some reflections on "Tangible elements of multiple modernities" / Daniz Kandiyoti -- Multiple modernities in contemporary architecture / Jeremy Melvin -- Entangled modernity: Multiple architectural expressions of global phenomena: the Late Ottoman example / Stefan Weber.

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Islam and architecture.
Islam and civil society.
Modern movement (Architecture)

NA2543.S6 / M85 2007

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