Inside/Outside Islamic Art and Architecture: A Cartography of Boundaries in and of the Field [Paperback]

When we walk into a gallery, we have a fairly good idea where the building begins and ends; and inside, while observing a painting, we are equally confident in distinguishing between the painting-proper and its frame and borders. Yet, things are often more complicated. A building defines an exterior space just as much as an interior, and what we perceive to be ornamental and marginal to a given painting may in fact be central to what it represents. In this volume, a simple question is presented: instead of dichotomous separations between inside and outside, or exterior and interior, what other relationships can we think of?

The first book of its kind to grapple with this question,Inside/Outside Islamic Art and Architecturefocuses on a wide spectrum of mediums and topics, including painted manuscripts, objects, architectural decoration, architecture and urban planning, and photography. Bringing together scholars with diverse methodologies-who work on a geographical span stretching from India to Spain and Nigeria, and across a temporal spectrum from the thirteenth to the twenty-first century-this original book also poses engaging questions about the boundaries of the field.

Introduction: Inside/Outside in and of Islamic Art & Architecture: Toward a Cartographical Approach,Saygin Salgirli (University of British Columbia-Vancouver, Canada)
1. In and Out of a Local Idiom: The Story of a Siedlung in Yenimahalle, Ankara,Kivanc Kilinc (American University of Beirut, Lebanon)
2. Looking beyond the Lens' Veil: Capturing the Haram (1840- 1890),Jorge Correia (University of Minho, Portugal)
3. Under-Writing Beirut-Mathaf, Whose Ghosts Must be Summoned,Jeff O'Brien (University of British Columbia-Vancouver, Canada)
4. For Close Observation: Imagery in the Architecture of Qajar Iran,