Title The Poetics of Arabian Sūqs A Hermeneutic Reading of the Development of Arabian Sūqs from the Pre-Islamic Era to Present

Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2022

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Description 1 online resource (266 p.) Series Routledge Research in Architecture Ser Routledge Research in Architecture Ser Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction: A Personal Impression, a Problem, a Method -- The Sūq: A Personal Impression -- The Sūq: An Epistemological Problem? -- Towards a Hermeneutic Reading of Arabian Space -- Concluding Notes: Limitations and Delimitations -- Chapter 1 Arabia in-between Prejudice and Prehension -- Introduction -- What Is Arabia, and Who Are the Arabs? -- Pre-Islamic Arabia and Its Many Arabs -- Islamic Arabia: An Expanding Social Geography Post-Islamic Arabia: A Reinvented Identity -- Concluding Notes: Decolonizing Arabian Studies -- Chapter 2 The Arabian Sūq in Contemporary Discourse -- Introduction -- What Is a Sūq? -- The Sūq as a Political Space -- The Sūq as a Religious Space -- The Sūq as a Social Space -- Concluding Notes: The Sūq as an Urban Franchise? -- Chapter 3 Pre-Islamic Arabia -- Introduction -- The Pre-Islamic Situation: A Historical Overview -- Pre-Islamic Arabian Settlements: An Archaeological Overview -- Lived Experience: Sūq-ness as 'Being-in-the-World' Concluding Notes: Pre-Islamic Sūqs in-between fadaā and tareeq -- Chapter 4 Islamic Arabia -- Introduction -- Historical Context: Arabia of the 7th century -- Islamic Sūqs: An Urban Overview -- Language: Poetics of the Islamic City -- Lived Experience: Islamic Sūqs in-between tajalli and al-wahm -- Concluding Notes: The Islamic City in-between Horizons -- Chapter 5 Post-Islamic Arabia -- Introduction -- Historical Context: Pan-Arabism vs. Pan-Islamism -- Post-Islamic Urban Developments: Case Studies -- The Poetics of Sūq-ness in Post-Islamic Arabia Lived Experience: Post-Islamic Sūq-ness and Its Variations -- Concluding Notes: Post-Islamic Sūq-ness and the Predicament of Progress -- Chapter 6 The Arabian Sūq's Past, Present and Future -- Introduction -- The Arabian Space and the Problem of Method -- The Arabian Sūq and the fadaā/tareeq Duality -- Poetics, Identity and Nostalgia in Arabian Sūqs -- The Sūq as a Passageway -- Bibliography -- Index Notes Description based upon print version of record Subject Medical technology. Architecture and society. Architecture and society Medical technology Form Electronic book ISBN 9781000771091 1000771091

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