Papers by Abbey Stockstill
Textile in Architecture: From the Middle Ages to Modernism, 2023
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The Friday Mosque and the City: Liminality, Ritual, and Politics, 2020
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caa.reviews, 2019
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Muqarnas, 2018
The Kutubiyya Mosque, the hallmark monument of the Almohad dynasty (1121–1269) in their capital c... more The Kutubiyya Mosque, the hallmark monument of the Almohad dynasty (1121–1269) in their capital city of Marrakesh, has resisted scholarly interpretation due to its unique plan, featuring two prayer halls wedged apart by the monumental minaret. The south-facing qibla and the architectural use of a prior dynasty’s palatial remains further complicate the narrative surrounding the function of the mosque within the urban fabric and the Almohads’ dynastic self-concept. This article argues that such idiosyncrasies are indicative of the Almohads’ sensitivity to the intellectual, religious, and legal arguments of the day, expressed through a deliberate adaptation or repudiation of the architectural precedents in the Islamic West. The Kutubiyya must be understood as a monumental record of the dynastic shifts in ideology and identity as the Almohads struggled to define themselves against their predecessors and competitors. The site’s unique plan and complex construction history are the physical evidence of this struggle, which makes the role of the Kutubiyya in the urban history of Marrakesh all the more significant.
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This edited volume explores the dy... more (https://www.intellectbooks.com/the-friday-mosque-in-the-city)
This edited volume explores the dynamic relationship between the Friday mosque and the Islamic city, addressing the traditional topics through a fresh new lens and offering a critical examination of each case study in its own spatial, urban, and socio-cultural context. While these two well-known themes—concepts that once defined the field—have been widely studied by historians of Islamic architecture and urbanism, this compilation specifically addresses the functional and spatial ambiguity or liminality between these spaces.
Instead of addressing the Friday mosque as the central signifier of the Islamic city, this collection provides evidence that there was (and continues to be) variety in the way architectural borders became fluid in and around Friday mosques across the Islamic world, from Cordoba to Jerusalem and from London to Lahore. By historicizing different cases and exploring the way human agency, through ritual and politics, shaped the physical and social fabric of the city, this volume challenges the generalizing and reductionist tendencies in earlier scholarship.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
A. Hilal Uğurlu and Suzan Yalman, Introduction
Section I: Spatial Liminalities: Walls, Enclosures, and Beyond
Susana Calvo Capilla, Liminal Spaces in the Great Mosque of Cordoba: Urban Meaning and Politico-Liturgical Practices
Mehreen Chida-Razvi, Lahore’s Badshahi Masjid: Spatial Interactions of the Sacred and the Secular
Fadi Ragheb, City as Liminal Space: Islamic Pilgrimage and Holy Sites in Jerusalem During the Mamluk Period 75
Section II: Creating New Destinations, Constructing New Sacreds
Suzan Yalman, Sanctifying Konya: The Thirteenth-Century Transformation of the Seljuk Friday Mosque into a ‘House of God’
Farshid Emami, Inviolable Thresholds, Blessed Palaces, and Holy Friday Mosques: The Sacred Topography of Safavid Isfahan
Abbey Stockstill, From the Kutubiyya to Tinmal: The Sacred Direction in Mu’minid Performance
Section III: Liminality and Negotiating Modernity
A. Hilâl Uğurlu, Perform Your Prayers in Mosques!: Changing Spatial and Political Relations in Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Istanbul
May Farhat, Urban Morphology and Sacred Space: The Mashhad Shrine During the Late Qajar and Pahlavi Periods
Nebahat Avcıoğlu, Towards a New Typology of Modern and Contemporary Mosque in Europe, including Russia and Turkey
* The Friday Mosque in the City: Liminality, Ritual, and Politics is a part of the Critical Studies in Architecture of the Middle East series of Intellect Books, edited by Mohammad Gharipour and Christiane Gruber. (https://www.intellectbooks.com/critical-studies-in-architecture-of-the-middle-east)
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This edited volume explores the dynamic relationship between the Friday mosque and the Islamic city, addressing the traditional topics through a fresh new lens and offering a critical examination of each case study in its own spatial, urban, and socio-cultural context. While these two well-known themes—concepts that once defined the field—have been widely studied by historians of Islamic architecture and urbanism, this compilation specifically addresses the functional and spatial ambiguity or liminality between these spaces.
Instead of addressing the Friday mosque as the central signifier of the Islamic city, this collection provides evidence that there was (and continues to be) variety in the way architectural borders became fluid in and around Friday mosques across the Islamic world, from Cordoba to Jerusalem and from London to Lahore. By historicizing different cases and exploring the way human agency, through ritual and politics, shaped the physical and social fabric of the city, this volume challenges the generalizing and reductionist tendencies in earlier scholarship.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
A. Hilal Uğurlu and Suzan Yalman, Introduction
Section I: Spatial Liminalities: Walls, Enclosures, and Beyond
Susana Calvo Capilla, Liminal Spaces in the Great Mosque of Cordoba: Urban Meaning and Politico-Liturgical Practices
Mehreen Chida-Razvi, Lahore’s Badshahi Masjid: Spatial Interactions of the Sacred and the Secular
Fadi Ragheb, City as Liminal Space: Islamic Pilgrimage and Holy Sites in Jerusalem During the Mamluk Period 75
Section II: Creating New Destinations, Constructing New Sacreds
Suzan Yalman, Sanctifying Konya: The Thirteenth-Century Transformation of the Seljuk Friday Mosque into a ‘House of God’
Farshid Emami, Inviolable Thresholds, Blessed Palaces, and Holy Friday Mosques: The Sacred Topography of Safavid Isfahan
Abbey Stockstill, From the Kutubiyya to Tinmal: The Sacred Direction in Mu’minid Performance
Section III: Liminality and Negotiating Modernity
A. Hilâl Uğurlu, Perform Your Prayers in Mosques!: Changing Spatial and Political Relations in Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Istanbul
May Farhat, Urban Morphology and Sacred Space: The Mashhad Shrine During the Late Qajar and Pahlavi Periods
Nebahat Avcıoğlu, Towards a New Typology of Modern and Contemporary Mosque in Europe, including Russia and Turkey
* The Friday Mosque in the City: Liminality, Ritual, and Politics is a part of the Critical Studies in Architecture of the Middle East series of Intellect Books, edited by Mohammad Gharipour and Christiane Gruber. (https://www.intellectbooks.com/critical-studies-in-architecture-of-the-middle-east)
This edited volume explores the dynamic relationship between the Friday mosque and the Islamic city, addressing the traditional topics through a fresh new lens and offering a critical examination of each case study in its own spatial, urban, and socio-cultural context. While these two well-known themes—concepts that once defined the field—have been widely studied by historians of Islamic architecture and urbanism, this compilation specifically addresses the functional and spatial ambiguity or liminality between these spaces.
Instead of addressing the Friday mosque as the central signifier of the Islamic city, this collection provides evidence that there was (and continues to be) variety in the way architectural borders became fluid in and around Friday mosques across the Islamic world, from Cordoba to Jerusalem and from London to Lahore. By historicizing different cases and exploring the way human agency, through ritual and politics, shaped the physical and social fabric of the city, this volume challenges the generalizing and reductionist tendencies in earlier scholarship.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
A. Hilal Uğurlu and Suzan Yalman, Introduction
Section I: Spatial Liminalities: Walls, Enclosures, and Beyond
Susana Calvo Capilla, Liminal Spaces in the Great Mosque of Cordoba: Urban Meaning and Politico-Liturgical Practices
Mehreen Chida-Razvi, Lahore’s Badshahi Masjid: Spatial Interactions of the Sacred and the Secular
Fadi Ragheb, City as Liminal Space: Islamic Pilgrimage and Holy Sites in Jerusalem During the Mamluk Period 75
Section II: Creating New Destinations, Constructing New Sacreds
Suzan Yalman, Sanctifying Konya: The Thirteenth-Century Transformation of the Seljuk Friday Mosque into a ‘House of God’
Farshid Emami, Inviolable Thresholds, Blessed Palaces, and Holy Friday Mosques: The Sacred Topography of Safavid Isfahan
Abbey Stockstill, From the Kutubiyya to Tinmal: The Sacred Direction in Mu’minid Performance
Section III: Liminality and Negotiating Modernity
A. Hilâl Uğurlu, Perform Your Prayers in Mosques!: Changing Spatial and Political Relations in Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Istanbul
May Farhat, Urban Morphology and Sacred Space: The Mashhad Shrine During the Late Qajar and Pahlavi Periods
Nebahat Avcıoğlu, Towards a New Typology of Modern and Contemporary Mosque in Europe, including Russia and Turkey
* The Friday Mosque in the City: Liminality, Ritual, and Politics is a part of the Critical Studies in Architecture of the Middle East series of Intellect Books, edited by Mohammad Gharipour and Christiane Gruber. (https://www.intellectbooks.com/critical-studies-in-architecture-of-the-middle-east)