Buch, Englisch, Band 4, 274 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1146 g
Islamic Architecture and Orientalizing Style in Habsburg Bosnia, 1878-1918
Buch, Englisch, Band 4, 274 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1146 g
Reihe: Studies in Central European Culture
ISBN: 978-3-631-90985-0
Verlag: Peter Lang
This book highlights an understudied experiment at the intersection of 19th-century European and Islamic architectural histories. It draws attention to a body of buildings designed by architects trained in Central Europe for use by Muslims in Habsburg-ruled Bosnia-Herzegovina (1878-1918). They include mosques, madrasas, and other buildings corresponding to a traditional Islamic formal and functional typology. The composition and decoration, however, is the product of 19th-century European Historicist conduct. It became a prominent style for town halls and private residences; on occasion, it was also used for railway stations, schools, or hotels. The spread and concentration of buildings in this style in Bosnia is extraordinary. This monography not only ?lls a gap in an art history that has long turned a blind eye to Europe’s Southeast but also contributes to our understanding of European powers’ historical responses to the challenge of cultural diversity in territories under their control.
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I. Introduction - II. Alterity as novelty: The multi-sited history of Bosnia’s ‘colonial style’ and the patterns of Orientalist
appropriation - III. Monumental transitions: Building meaning and ‘meaning buildings’ on a former frontier - IV. Muslim but not Islamic? Habsburg Sarajevo’s new landmarks and the evolution of an Orientalizing aesthetic - V. Furnishing a foreign home: Topographies and typologies in flux - VI. Making heritage knowable: Bosnia’s Muslim tradition in the late Habsburg imaginary - VII. General conclusion - VIII. Glossary - IX. Works cited and abbreviations.
