Mohammed Hamdouni Alami, DPLG, Ph.D., studied architecture at the Ecole d’Architecture in Grenoble and was awarded a doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley. He is presently an associate researcher at the University of California, Berkeley
Contents
Illustrations ix
Arabic Characters xii
Acknowledgements xiii
1. Introduction 1
Architecture and Poetics 16
The Aims of this Book 27
2. Architecture and Meaning in the Theory of al-Jāḥiẓ 33
Architecture and Meaning: Al-Jāḥiẓ’s View 38
Aesthetic, Variety and Emotion 47
Voice, Body and Emotion 48
Al-Bayān, Architecture and Commemoration 55
3. Architecture and Poetics 63
Modus Operandi 66
Al-Khalil’s Theory of Language 70
Arabic Poetics 74
The Palace and the Qaṣīda 121
4. Architecture and Myth 129
Ḥadīthu Sinimmār 129
5. Al-Jāḥiẓ in the Mosque at Damascus: Social Critique
and Debate in the History of Umayyad Architecture 159
Yaqubi’s Account 164
Muqaddasi’s Account 164
Architecture and Hospitality 171
ʿUmar II: Architecture and Piety 178
6. Architecture and Desire 189
‘Architects’ or Architectural Planners 192
The Desire for Architecture 201
Architecture and Misrecognition 212
The Travelling Gaze: Ibn al-Jahm’s Eulogy of the Palace
al-Haruni 214
Building, Reflection and Emptiness 224
7. Conclusion 227
Notes 235
References 269
Index 281
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