Pub Date : 1999-01-01DOI: 10.1163/22118993-90000388
Hana Taragan
In 1946, the architect Hassan Fathy (1900-89; fig. 1) was commissioned by the Egyptian government to plan and build a new village for the inhabitants of Old Gourna, who for generations had lived directly above the rock-hewn tombs in the cemetery of Thebes on the western mountain side of the Nile, near Luxor (fig. 2). The purpose of the project was to put an end to the villagers' age-old livelihood of robbing antiquities from the Pharaonic tombs and offering them up for sale to archaeologists, tourists, and anyone else who set store by these treasures.
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Pub Date : 1999-01-01DOI: 10.1163/22118993-90000384
Çiğdem Kafescioğlu
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Pub Date : 1998-04-11DOI: 10.1163/22118993-90000413
Ron Fuchs
The traditional Palestinian Arab house appears to be an extensively and well studied subject. Nineteenthand early-twentieth-century travelers and observers have left many descriptions of indigenous Palestinian dwellings and of domestic life in Palestine, and a short monograph specifically dedicated to the Palestinian village house appeared as early as 1912.1 During the period of British rule (1917-48), two studies were published that are still cited as the standard sources on the subject: Taufik Canaan's The Palestinian Arab House: Its Architecture and Folklore (1932-33) and the volume dedicated to "the House" in GustafDalman's seven-tome compendium, Arbeit und Sitte in Paliistina ( 1939). 2 Scholars have since produced a considerable body of work relating to the geography, history, and architecture of Palestinian settlements. 3 The fact that the British Museum shop now offers visitors an illustrated booklet entitled the Palestinian Village Home suggests it has become a "classic" of vernacular architecture.4 A review of this relatively abundant material reveals, however, that the treatment so far given to the subject of traditional Palestinian domestic architecture deserves some criticism. One problematic aspect of nineteenthand early-twentieth-century descriptive literature is its predominantly biblical-archaeological inspiration: many authors regarded the landscapes of Palestine as illustrations for the Scriptures, and their texts are frustratingly burdened with biblical quotations. Behind this attitude lay the assumption, often taken for granted, that traditional life in Palestine had remained unchanged for millennia. This bias affected our two standard authorities, Canaan and Dalman, as well. Canaan writes:
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Pub Date : 1998-04-11DOI: 10.1163/22118993-90000415
J. Frembgen
{"title":"Religious Folk Art As An Expression Of Identity: Muslim Tombstones In The Gangar Mountains Of Pakistan","authors":"J. Frembgen","doi":"10.1163/22118993-90000415","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/22118993-90000415","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39506,"journal":{"name":"Muqarnas","volume":"8 1","pages":"200-210"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"1998-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73133699","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 1998-04-11DOI: 10.1163/22118993-90000407
C. Robinson
I have only cruel absence to ask, for he has dispersed them, [I know not] if to the mountains or to the plain. Time has worked its tyranny on them, and they were dispersed to all ends of the earth; most of them have died. Destiny has invaded their dwellings: they have changed, and their former inhabitants are not what they were. Time has refused to [again] create light in its courtyards, which [before] almost set hearts ablaze. For such as Cordoba, the wails of he who weeps with only one eye are but little, for her tears flow unceasingly. I am afflicted by the memory of that springtime house where fresh gazelles wandered about a spacious courtyard, and the gazes when the gazes of all nobility turned toward her from everywhere, and the days of unified power, in the hands of its Amir and the Amir delegated by him, And the days in which every peaceful hand was raised in salute, hurrying anxiously toward her. My sadness is renewed for her chiefs, narrators, people of confidence, and defenders. My soul sobs for her rectitude, grace, splendor, and grandeur. My entrails are split for her benevolent wisemen, her poets and her elegant men.1
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Pub Date : 1998-04-11DOI: 10.1163/22118993-90000414
A. Asani, Carney E. S. Gavin
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